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Texas Adult Education Standards and Benchmarks
for ABE ASE and ESL Learners

esl LESSON PLANS

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Texas Adult Education Standards
Lesson Plan

Before you begin

Title: Excuse Letter to a Child’s Teacher

Setting: ESL

NRS Level(s):

Level 3: High Beginning
Level 4: Low Intermediate

Open entry/exit: No

Context: Community

Standard(s): ESL Convey Ideas in Writing

Benchmark(s): 1.3, 2.3, 3.3, 4.3, 2.4

Objective: To write a letter to a child’s teacher to convey reason for his or her absence.

Materials: Pen, pencil, paper, overhead projector

Estimated time needed to prepare for this lesson plan: 30 minutes

Estimated time needed to complete this lesson plan: 2 hours

The Lesson Plan

Introduce the lesson:
Discuss with the learners: What do you do when a child misses school? Why do they miss school? Where do they go if they cannot go to school? Who does it impact most?

Teach the lesson:
Teach the different parts of the letter: opening, body, close

Practice the lesson:
Pairs write letters together

Assess the lesson:
Instructor reviews letters and edits them, then the learners read their letters to the class.

Apply the lesson to the real world:
Learners will write a note to their instructor or to their child’s teacher

Submitted by: Group 1 at Houston Literacy Consortium

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