Mythological Creature: Vampire

Beginning

• Provide a word bank that students can use when discussing vampires.
• Teach a mini-lesson on point of view pronouns for first person (I, me, we) and third person (she, he, they).

Intermediate

• Allow students to talk with a partner or small group in L1 or L2 to discuss their background knowledge about vampires.

Beginning

• Pre-teach key vocabulary terms that students may encounter in the text, like "century," "coffin," or "immortal."
• Read the text aloud to students as they follow along.
• Partner students intentionally so ELs may discuss in their home language or with more advanced learners.

Intermediate

• Allow ELs to use bilingual dictionaries or glossaries to look up unfamiliar words.
• Provide a sentence frame to support students' written responses to question one (e.g., "Another example of a famous vampire is ____. One characteristic they have is ____.").

Beginning

• Allow ELs to use bilingual resources to look up unfamiliar words.
• Read only one journal entry and discuss it in a small, teacher-led group.
• Allow students to use a paragraph frame to complete the writing task.

Intermediate

• Give ELs extra time to complete the task.
• Provide additional background information about the character Dracula before asking students to write.
• Allow students to use a word bank as support during the writing task.