ESA 3 Title III Consortium Announces your Colony Teacher Subscription to: Grammar Gallery. Weave these lessons into your literacy block to facilitate English Language Development. Language learners need explicit, teacher-directed language instruction – and now you have a organized, fun and complete resource. Program Overview Grammar Gallery is a teacher-delivered instructional program accessed through the Internet. It's the nation's premier web-based grammar program and supports English language development. The Main Gallery -- the heart of the program -- includes 900 downloadable resources, including: 300 INTRODUCE resources that focus on oral language. Each of these resources includes a 20-minute lesson plan and everything you need to deliver it -- concept pictures, sentence frames, a student worksheet, and background information for the teacher. 300 REINFORCE resources that focus on reading. Each of these resources includes a 30-minute lesson plan and everything you need to deliver it -- a reading, critical thinking questions, a focus on academic vocabulary development, and a comprehension check. 300 EXPAND resources that focus on writing. Each of these resources includes a 30-minute writing lesson plan and everything you need to deliver it - a student reference sheet on the writing topic and a writing practice worksheet. What are “language functions and grammatical forms”? Language functions are essentially language tasks-they describe what we use language to accomplish. For example, we use language to name, describe, narrate, explain, compare, and so forth. Each of these is an example of a language function. Grammatical forms are the linguistic constructs we need to accomplish a language task. For example, in order to name objects or ideas, we need nouns (e.g., girl, bedroom, car, dog, freedom, vulnerability). In order to describe things, we need adjectives (e.g., tall, smart, funny, happy, perceptive, cogent). Nouns and adjectives are two examples of grammatical
forms. In order to develop full academic language proficiency, research demonstrates that students need explicit instruction in language functions and corresponding grammatical forms. Of course, this instructional focus on grammatical accuracy must be balanced with opportunities for students to engage in meaningful and authentic communication. How is Grammar Gallery organized? Grammar Gallery is organized by language level, topic, language function, and grammatical form. It includes 60 resources for each of the five language levels, for a total of 300 resources in the Main Gallery. It also includes 60 texts for each of the five language levels, for a total of 300 readings in the Reading Gallery. Teachers of beginning English learners would access materials from the Level 1“frame” in the “gallery.” Teachers may use resources from lower language levels to review or reinforce forms with students at higher language levels. What Do Grammar Gallery Users Say About the Program? “I am such a fan of Grammar Gallery, as are many of us in SFUSD. It is such an amazing resource, and keeps getting better.” Sherry V., San Francisco Unified School District, CA “I love this resource more than any other resource I use to teach ELs!” Sophia H., Stanford New Schools, CA “I LOVE GRAMMAR GALLERY! My ESL supervisor purchased it to assist us with teaching ELL students and I just can’t say enough good things about the program. I have only had the program since August, but I know every word of it! I have never been so excited about a program! It is exactly what every teacher needs in their toolkit.” Kelly P., Lower Dauphin School District, PA
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