Assessing Communicative Skills

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Assessing Communicative Skills The lesson that I chose to teach was taught to the entire class including an ELL student in a summer school program. The lesson plan was about sportsmanship and was an important lesson for all the students in the class because of the amount of team sports they will be playing, as a class, this summer as part of their summer program. The students were given a list of questions to answer – which I have included at the end of the lesson plan. After they answered the questions, I had each student read aloud a section of a handout on sportsmanship. I then gave them a more formal lesson on sportsmanship. We then reviewed and discussed their answers to the list of questions I gave them to make sure they fully understood what was read and the lesson I gave them and to see if any of their original answers had changed. This lesson was great at evaluating reading, writing, comprehension, and verbal skills of the English Language learner because each was used at some point or even multiple times throughout the lesson. The lesson also gave numerous opportunities for the ELL student to engage with his peers as well as with the teacher. (I apologize but I could not copy and paste the SOLOM formatting but here are the results.) SOLOM RESULTS: A. Comprehension : 4 - Understands nearly everything at normal speech. Although occasional repetition may be necessary. The student was able to follow along with the class discussion and only needed clarification on the meaning of a few new words. B. Fluency : 4 - Speech in everyday conversation and classroom discussions generally fluent, with occasional lapses while the student searches for the correct manner of expression. The student was able to share his thoughts and ideas with the rest of the class with only minimal pauses to find the correct word or to properly pronounce a few

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