EAL Grade 3 Research

One of our learning intentions during Sharing the Planet Unit of Inquiry was to develop our students' research skills. Our Grade 3 English learners had various opportunities to practice looking for information, extracting the important bits from the text, paraphrasing and taking notes.

In Miss Lisa's classroom, the children were learning about various climate zones. They were offered to read the text about different climates, focus on keywords, paraphrase the important facts and use them in their own posters.

Miss Lisa gives instructions.

In Miss Anita's and Miss Lisa's rooms, several students chose to focus on the problem of food waste. They decided to interview our cafeteria chef to find out what happens to the food leftovers in ISPP. I supported these students while they were thinking of the interview questions. It was exciting to observe our third graders (several of them EAL students) confidently asking questions and taking notes when they heard the answers. Everyone in our group enjoyed this authentic learning experience. The children discovered some cool facts about our school and were eager to share their findings with the rest of their class.

Revising the questions before the interview.

EFL Grade 3 Class

In our EFL class, the children learned about the pollution of the ocean. We listened to several podcasts and watched a couple of videos ( video 1; video 2). I chose to practice note taking in the form of mindmaps. After a meaningful discussion, the children were ready to create persuasive posters. The students choose to persuade various audiences to help sea turtles to survive. As usually persuasive sentence frames were offered to our English language learners to support them.
The students enjoyed creating the posters in pairs or groups of three and presented the outcomes at the end of the class. The audience was very supportive and lots of positive feedback was provided.

Bravo Sean and Hyon Ung!

Chou chay and Riku did a good job!

Soyal, Oscar and Peter's presentation was a big success as well!