Detailed Sample Task: EAL Literacy
CLB 2L - Writing Reproducing Information
Community and Recreation
Real-World Task
Copy information about a local soccer team for children.
Planning Context
Helpful Knowledge:
- You need to register to play on a team.
- Your team might play at different fields at different times.
- Your child might need a uniform.
- Teams meet for practices and for games.
Context:
- Children often play on school or community sports teams.
- A coach runs the team and helps the children learn how to play well.
Vocabulary and Grammar
Sample Vocabulary:
- soccer
- coach
- player
- days of the week
- team
- practice
- game
Sample Grammar:
- No specific requirements for this task.
Knowledge and Strategies
Textual and Functional Knowledge:
- No specific requirements for this task.
Sociolinguistic Knowledge:
- Copying contact information is a helpful strategy.
Activities and Tasks
Sample Skill-Building Activities:
- Discuss playing on a team: Have you ever played on a team? Have your children ever played on a team?
- Tap picture cards to words when the instructor calls out words.
- Use word cards to label a picture of children playing soccer.
- Discuss how you play soccer and listen to classmates.
- Sort the vocabulary words into categories based on the initial sound.
- Copy vocabulary words.
- Copy from vocabulary word cards to fill in blanks in a very simple story about soccer.
- From a short, simple instructor-made story on the topic, have learners listen as the instructor reads, following with their finger. Have learners repeat after the instructor to match intonation and fluency. Finally, have learners read the story as a group, and then individually
- Sing a “Days of the Week” song.
- Copy the days of the week.
- Look at a community website for local children’s sports teams.
- Look at the website for the local recreation centre.
- Read a simplified schedule for a sports team’s practices and games.
Sample Skill-Using Tasks:
- Copy information about a school soccer team.
- Copy information about an adult community soccer league.
Sample Assessment Tasks:
- Copy information about a local soccer team for children, including where and when they meet.
Teaching Considerations
Cultural Considerations:
- Children’s sports teams can be for both boys and girls (more common at young ages) or can be for a single sex only.
- Children’s sports teams can be at different levels of competition, from beginners’ teams to very competitive teams.
Digital Literacy Strategies:
Successful completion of some tasks may require some baseline knowledge and digital skills.
Learners may need to:
- Look at a website.
- Read information from a screen.
Instructors can:
- Introduce websites that are relevant to the task(s).
- Show learners how to find a website.
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Indigenization Strategies:
Instructors can:
- Use diverse representations of people in all learning resources and images, including people who are 2SLGBTQIA+, Indigenous, Francophone and of other cultures, and people who have disabilities or who are neurodivergent.
- Recognize and teach learners that Canada is a diverse place and has people from many different cultures. Canadian culture includes the cultures of all people in Canada.
- Recognize that some learners may have different views. You can be sensitive to their differing opinions, but all learners benefit from EDI, and all learners have the right to an inclusive and equitable learning environment.
Trauma-informed Strategies:
Possible Trauma Triggers:
- Learners may have experienced misogyny, homophobia, transphobia and/or racism in the community.
- Discussions of gender, sexuality, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia may be triggering for learners who have experienced trauma.
- Give learners advance warning of these topics and be aware that there may be learners who require support.
Strategies:
- Create a safe and supportive classroom environment by establishing familiar routines, repeated activities, and model friendly and non-evaluative interactions; learners who have experienced trauma often benefit from having routine.
- Recognize and respect learners’ right to choose if, when and what they share about themselves and their routines.
Resources
Outings, Guest Speaker Suggestions, Extension Activities:
- Visit a recreation centre and find out information about sports teams.
- Invite a children’s coach to come speak to the class.
- Go to the local park and play a game of soccer together, or invite another literacy class to join you.
Realia:
- Pamphlets or brochures from the local recreation centre
- Practice and games schedule for a sports team
Units and Modules:
Lessons and Activities:
Detailed Sample Task
This exemplar is aligned with the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) and is designed to guide and inform your lesson and module planning. Consult the Canadian Language Benchmarks English as a Second Language for Adults for detailed performance descriptors at this benchmark and skill.
The information in this document is not exhaustive and can be expanded on. As well, you can use more learner-friendly language in your materials and assessments.
This is NOT a lesson or module plan.
