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Core Curriculum Classroom Language and Skills

The full module of 6 units (12 lessons) of Core Curriculum Classroom Language and Skills covering language and skills for success in the classroom environment.

The features mentioned in this article are available to all Teachers on paid and free subscriptions. However, only a limited number of lessons are available on free subscriptions.

Table of contents 

  1. Target students
  2. Key features
  3. Lesson Details & Links

Target students

These lessons are for students who have already developed basic English proficiency and need support acquiring the language and skills necessary to engage fully with school life, especially LTELs. Lessons in this module target pre-intermediate levels (WIDA Developing/CEFR B1).

Key features

All lessons in this series are based around the following elements:

  1. Relevant topics for US secondary students: Lessons in this series are built around topics and situations most relevant to secondary school students, including school schedules, classroom routines, discussing study skills, and more.
  2. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): The lessons in this module use a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach by introducing relevant content through the medium of English. Language learning in meaningful contexts is most effective and so promotes quicker acquisition.
  3. Full WIDA mapping: Each lesson in the module is fully mapped to specific WIDA language expectations making it easy for teachers to use the lessons within a wider curriculum map.
  4. Versatile lesson content: While the Core Curriculum Classroom Language & Skills lessons can be taught from start to finish in a sequence, they can also function as standalone lessons. This means that core subject teachers can jump into a given lesson when necessary to support specific students needs’ at that particular moment.

Lesson Details & Links

The unit, lesson name (with link), and objectives are listed below for a quick overview of each lesson. Click a lesson name to launch it directly from this article. To see a spreadsheet of all Off2Class lessons, click here.

Unit Lesson & Link Objectives
1 - Rules and expectations 1-1 School rules ELD-SI 4-12 Inform: Summarizing most important aspects of information (Introduce and define common school rules and behavioral expectations)
ELD-SI 4-12 Narrate: Identifying and raising questions about what might be unexplained, missing, or left unsaid
ELD-SI 4-12 Explain: Acting on feedback to revise understandings of how or why something is or works in particular ways

At the end of the lesson, students can state rules and give orders using imperatives.
At the end of the lesson, students can understand consequences formed with the zero and first conditional.
1 - Rules and expectations 1-2 Asking for permission ELD-SI 4-12 Inform: Summarizing most important aspects of information (Introduce and define common school rules and behavioral expectations)
ELD-SI 4-12 Narrate: Identifying and raising questions about what might be unexplained, missing, or left unsaid
ELD-SI 4-12 Explain: Acting on feedback to revise understandings of how or why something is or works in particular ways

At the end of the lesson, students can ask for permission.
At the end of the lesson, students can formulate -WH and yes/no questions.
2 - Classroom instructions 2-1 Following instructions ELD-SI 4-12 Inform: Summarizing most important aspects of information

At the end of the lesson, students can give instructions and understand basic instructions used during lessons.
2 - Classroom instructions 2-2 Asking questions ELD-SI 4-12 Inform: Summarizing most important aspects of information

At the end of the lesson, students can express lack of understanding and ask for repetition or clarification.
3 - School activities 3-1 School clubs ELD-SI 4-12 Inform: Summarizing most important aspects of information
ELD-SI 4-12 Explain: Comparing changing variables, factors, and circumstances

At the end of the lesson, students can discuss after school activities.
At the end of the lesson, students can use relative clauses to provide details.
3 - School activities 3-2 Daily schedule ELD-SI 4-12 Inform: Summarizing most important aspects of information
ELD-SI 4-12 Explain: Comparing changing variables, factors, and circumstances

At the end of this lesson students can discuss daily timeline using prepositions of time; Students can ask for and give directions to different parts of a school.
4 - Student council 4-1 Responsibilities of student council ELD-SI 4-12 Inform: Describing the parts and wholes of a system
ELD-SI 4-12 Argue: Supporting or challenging an opinion, premise, or interpretation

At the end of the lesson, students can describe responsibilities using modal verbs.
4 - Student council 4-2 Student elections ELD-SI 4-12 Inform: Describing the parts and wholes of a system
ELD-SI 4-12 Argue: Supporting or challenging an opinion, premise, or interpretation

At the end of the lesson, students can compare and contrast and construct arguments from evidence.
5 - School issues 5-1 Friendship ELD-SI 4-12 Narrate: Creating closure, recap, and offer next steps
ELD-SI 4-12 Argue: Generating questions about different perspectives; Evaluating changes in thinking, identifying trade-offs

At the end of the lesson, students can express basic opinions.
At the end of the lesson, students can describe friendship using noun and adjective forms.
5 - School issues 5-2 Homework ELD-SI 4-12 Narrate: Creating closure, recap, and offer next steps
ELD-SI 4-12 Argue: Generating questions about different perspectives; Evaluating changes in thinking, identifying trade-offs

At the end of the lesson, students can paraphrase others' opinions and pose questions.
At the end of the lesson, students can frame and develop a discussion.
6 - Student life 6-1 Communicating with peers ELD-SI 4-12 Narrate: Recounting and restating ideas to sustain and move dialogue forward
ELD-SI 4-12 Explain: Following and describing cycles and sequences of steps or procedures and their causes and effects

At the end of the lesson, students can participate in short social conversations that include small talk and use common idiomatic expressions.
6 - Student life 6-2 Study skills ELD-SI 4-12 Narrate: Recounting and restating ideas to sustain and move dialogue forward
ELD-SI 4-12 Explain: Following and describing cycles and sequences of steps or procedures and their causes and effects

At the end of the lesson, students can describe study strategies and give recommendations and suggestions.