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If this step is not easy for you, consider what language students will need to succeed and create "an anchor chart" for yourself or to share with students that demonstrates what that may success look or sound like in practice . or what may be the most important or relevant expectations related to student success. For a short explanation of anchor charts, download the one-page PDF found HERE.
Step Three: Consider
Based on my lesson's objectives and my example student, Tuaha, I am going to select discourse as academic language my focus. I do this because Tuaha has higher scores in the areas of Reading and Writing, but he could easily get lost in the extended narrative provided by the guest speaker as I see when I check what Tuaha "Can Do" in that are using the level 2 descriptor below:
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