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Strategies and Activities for Language Learner Levels

Compiled by

Jill Kerper Mora

San Diego State University

Level 4

Listening/Speaking Activities:

  • Debating
  • Creating and performing skits and role-plays
  • Short speech making to persuade based on format or template
  • Oral reports
  • Impromptu characterizations and role playing
  • Storytelling and re-telling

Reading/Writing Activities:

Level 3

SENSORY DESCRIPTIVE WRITING

  • Advertising copy
  • Character sketches
  • Poems such as haiku or limerick
  • Eyewitness memoir
  • Biographical sketch of self or other familiar person or literary character

IMAGINATIVE-NARRATIVE WRITING

  • Scripts
  • Folk tales
  • Vignettes based on a photograph or a "story starter"
  • Short stories based on a format or template
  • Myths based on familiar story or literature
  • Autobiographical incidents

Listening/Speaking Activities:

INFORMATIVE-PRACTICAL WRITING

  • News reports
  • Advertisements
  • Report of information based on research of a topic
  • Business letters (complaint, order, information, etc.)
  • Interviews
  • Summaries
  • Editorials using a template or format
  • Reviews of a familiar movie or play using a template or format
  • Library research papers
  • Poems to persuade, analyze, or make analogies
  • Single or multi-paragraph assignments to describe, narrate, analyze, compare or contrast based on an outline or graphic organizer
  • Jokes, riddles and word games such as Who Am I?
  • Analysis of charts, graphs, tables
  • Speech making to describe, narrate or inform

Reading/Writing Activities:

Level 2

Listening/Speaking Activities:

SENSORY DESCRIPTIVE WRITING

  • Journal entries based on personal experiences
  • Short descriptions of objects, scenes from photographs
  • News telling using formats or templates: who, what, where, when and why

IMAGINATIVE NARRATIVE WRITING

  • Anecdotes
  • Diary entries
  • Captions
  • Journal entry
  • Personal letters
  • Dialogues/monologues

INFORMATIVE-PRACTICAL WRITING

  • Telephone messages
  • Postcards
  • Friendly notes
  • Class notes
  • Memos
  • Directions or steps in a process
  • Role playing
  • Reader's Theater
  • Labeling a picture, scene, or event with short sentences
  • Who, what, where question responses: Naming the subject or location
  • Describing a picture, scene, story, or event
  • Find-the-differences pictures
  • Story telling based on familiar events or personal experiences and routines
  • Retelling stories

ANALYTICAL-EXPOSITORY WRITING

  • Letters to the editor
  • Letters of inquiry to a business or organization
  • Speeches based on a communicative function or purpose
  • Advertisements and commercials

Level 1

Reading/Writing Activities:

Listening/Speaking Activities:

  • Writing sentences based on a graphic organizer
  • Writing descriptions based on guide questions or template
  • Sentence building
  • Chain writing
  • What am I? Guessing games based on descriptions
  • Writing recipes or short series of directions
  • Creating a paragraph based on a sequence of pictures
  • Completing a story using substitutions for characters, objects, adjectives, antonyms or synonyms
  • Total Physical Response (TPR) with basic commands
  • Read stories aloud with picture clues
  • Complete cartoon strip dialogues
  • Listening to a story in English and retell a partner in LI
  • Reading aloud to complete a task, recipe, or art project
  • Sequencing of events based on pictures or familiar short narrative

Reading/Writing Activities:

  • Picture labeling
  • Modified cloze procedures using familiar paragraphs or narratives
  • Language experience stories using omissions, identifications or associations
  • Sentence completion and transformation
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