CALLA+Lesson+Plan

CALLA, or Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach was developed by Chamot and O' Malley. It was developed as an instructional model to meet academic needs of students learning English as a second language in American schools. It is a teaching method that links content instruction with language learning goals. Using the CALLA method, new content is taught through hands-on learning experiences, and new information is linked to prior knowledge. It is appropriate for students who have developed social language through beginning ESL classes and already have some academic language.



**__Learning to Subtract...A CALLA Lesson Plan__** Please click the link below to see an example of a lesson plan in the CALLA model. The lesson is for Kindergarten ELL students in the beginning/intermediate level of language learning. The content objective for the lesson is learning to subtract with numerals 0-10.

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