Case Study # 1

Overview of the Lesson In this lesson we will be providing the

students with a worksheet that
requires them to unscramble English
sentences and communicate with their
partners in English. They then will
rewrite the sentence in the correct
English sentence structure, ask their
partner the corrected question, and
record their partners response. This
allows them to practice sentence
structure while interacting with
classmates using the English
language.
Description of Learners 6th- 7th grade boys and girls (even
gender ratio)
Ages ranging from 12-14 years old
2-3 years of English education classes
Overall speaking/ understanding
ability is low to moderate low
Technology level is low
Intended Learning Goals The students will learn accurate
English sentence structure.
They then will apply what they learned
by writing a coherent paragraph of
what they learned about their partner.
They will also be practicing interacting
with classmates using the English
language and improving their
technological abilities.


Lesson Content scrambled sentence structure
verbal involvement
application of technology
Learning Objectives Given the 12 scrambled English
sentences on the worksheet the
students will be able to write the
sentences in proper English
grammatical format.
Given the 12 scrambled English
sentences on the worksheet, the
students will be able to create a
response to the questions and get at
least 8 sentences correct.
As for homework the students will use
the given worksheet and their
responses to the questions on the
worksheet to formulate a cohesive
paragraph about their partner from the
knowledge they gained on the
worksheet.
Standards English Language Proficiency Standards
Grade 7

Standard 4- Writing: Process
Language minority students will listen, speak,
and write to convey information and
interpretation to target an audience
ELP 7.4.1 Write a simple paragraph
or essay that describes, compares, or
narrates a main idea and express
nonverbally or with simple spoken or
written phrases or sentences.
ELP 7.4.8 Collect information from
several sources and take notes on a given
topic

Standard 6- Writing: English Language
Conventions
Language minority students will listen, speak,
read, and write to negotiate, construct, and
produce English language conventions.
ELP 7.6.2 Identify basic sentence
structures, mechanics, and vocabulary
in a simple wiring selection.

Standard 7- Listening and Speaking:
Skills, Strategies and Applications
Language minority students will listen and
speak for specific purposes to negotiate and
express meaning
ELP 7.7.4 Prepare brief, simple oral
presentations that are narrative,
informational, or descriptive and
express through role play or with
simple words, phrases, sentences.


Required Materials the scramble word worksheet
a pencil
one partner
Procedure Find a partner
unscramble the sentences
ask your partner the unscrambled
questions
Make you are splitting up the
questions every other that way you
unscramble 6 questions and your
partner unscrambles the other 6 on
their own. Then check each other's
work.
answer each others questions and
write down their answer on your paper
when you are finished check each
others work.
As homework you each will pick 6 of
the 12 questions and your partners
responses and write one paragraph
about the information you learned
about your partner
Assessment We will grade the paragraphs we sent
home as homework on how well the
student was able to write coherent,
grammatically correct English
sentences about their partners.
References/ Reference Materials Yousefian, S., & Sabet, M. (2014).
THE IMPACT OF READING
STRATEGIES' INSTRUCTION ON
IRANIAN INTERMEDIATE EFL
LEARNERS' READING
COMPREHENSION
PERFORMANCE. Modern Journal Of
Language Teaching Methods, 4(2),
275-285.

They did this study using Iranian college
students learning English as a foreign
language. They read reading comprehension
text in English. This study researched the
relationship between the use of reading
strategies has and reading comprehension
performance. To make sure the test was
homogeneous they selected 40 EFL learners
at Islamic Azad University of Toneabon. A
pretest was taken by two groups. One group
was an experimental group and they were
exposed to reading strategies instruction for
10 sessions.


Agbatogun, A. (2014). Developing
Learners' Second Language
Communicative Competence through
Active Learning: Clickers or
Communicative Approach?. Journal
Of Educational Technology & Society,
17(2), 257-269

This article is about a study that was done on
the impact of the communicative approach
and the lecture approach on the development
of learners who were taught English as a
second language.