As part of our SIOP implementation district wide last year, we began writing language objectives and including them in our lesson plans. Here's a refresher for those of you who need it on how to write those, as well as some examples from different grade levels and content.
What are language objectives?
Language objectives are lesson objectives that specifically outline the type of language that students will need to learn and use in order to accomplish the goals of the lesson. Quality language objectives complement the content knowledge and skills identified in content area standards and address the aspects of academic language that will be developed or reinforced during the teaching of grade-level content concepts (Echevarria & Short, 2010).
Language objectives are lesson objectives that specifically outline the type of language that students will need to learn and use in order to accomplish the goals of the lesson. Quality language objectives complement the content knowledge and skills identified in content area standards and address the aspects of academic language that will be developed or reinforced during the teaching of grade-level content concepts (Echevarria & Short, 2010).
These objectives involve the four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing), but they can also include:
- the language functions related to the topic of the lesson (e.g., justify, hypothesize)
- - the vocabulary essential to a student being able to fully participate in the lesson (e.g., axis, locate, graph)
- l - language learning strategies to aid in comprehension (e.g, questioning, making predictions)
- Language objectives are directly correlated to content objectives. Once you determine the lesson topic from the appropriate content standards, you will want to begin thinking about the academic language necessary for English learners to complete the tasks that support the content objectives. This identification of the academic language embedded in the lesson's content will become the basis for the lesson's language objectives.
- Language Objectives: The Key to Effective Content Area Instruction for English Learners. (n.d.). Retrieved August 15, 2017
Examples of different language objectives for different content areas:
Sample lessons using these objectives:
Third Grade
Sixth Grade:
Remember:
These objectives not only go into your lesson plans, but they should also be visible to students so that you can refer to them any time and they know what they are expected to do or learn.
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