Texas
Adult Education Standards and Benchmarks
for ABE ASE and ESL Learners
Lesson Plan Bank
esl LESSON PLANS
Texas Adult Education Standards
Lesson Plan
Before you begin
Title: Recognizing, Understanding, and Using Road Signs
Setting: ESL
NRS Level(s):
Level 1: Beginning Literacy
Level 2: Low Beginning
Level 3: High Beginning
Level 4: Low Intermediate
Level 5: High Intermediate
Level 6: Advanced
Open entry/exit: Yes
Context: Community
Standard(s): ESL Read with Understanding
Benchmark(s): 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
Objective: To assist students to take the driving test in English.
Materials: Poster from Motor Vehicles, construction paper, handout with traffic symbol names, and markers.
Estimated time needed to prepare for this lesson plan: 45 minutes
Estimated time needed to complete this lesson plan: Three 1-hour classes
The Lesson Plan
Introduce the lesson:
Show poster and ask, “Who wants to get a driver’s license?”
Teach the lesson:
Ask students to identify the traffic symbols they know. After students
have identified the symbols they know and discussed what they mean,
covering any remaining symbols that were not mentioned.
Practice the lesson:
Have each student make different symbols using the construction paper,
then post them around the room. Then have each student go around the
room and match the symbols with correct name.
Assess the lesson:
Determine if the students were able to match the symbols with correct
names. Discuss which symbols looked similar and ways to tell them apart.
Apply the lesson to the real world:
Have the students locate on their own around town, etc., as many symbols
as they can and share with the class next time it meets.
Submitted by: Mollie Tuley, Katie Ohayon, Irma B. Gonzalez, Paula M. Cantu, Octaviano Garza, Imelda Garza
