[NIFL-ESL:10812] Four mini-grant projects now available

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Hi,

I'm pleased to announce that four winning projects from the ESL
Special Collection Mini-Grants competition are now posted. 
Congratulations to the winners and to their programs, who will each
receive $250.

Visit www.eslcollection.org to see if one of these lesson plans can
help you in your classroom:

1. Family Day Trip Webquest for Intermediate Learners (with
Adaptations for Beginners)
Karisa Tashjian and Sherry Fiaux, RI
Family Literacy Initiative, Providence, RI

Website referenced:
    * www.beehive.org

The lesson is based on a webquest Tashjian and Fiaux created about a
family day trip in Rhode Island. Students are presented with the
scenario that they have been given a Saturday off from work to spend
with their family. They have $50 to plan a trip for 2 families and to
visit 3 places interesting to all members of their families. There are
adaptations provided to help teachers develop a similar project
wherever they are. There are six organizer worksheets to make the
project easier for students and teachers.


2. Storytelling Skills for Intermediate/Advanced Learners
Cheryl Fuentes, REEP, Arlington, VA

Websites referenced:
    * www.storyarts.org
    * www.reepworld.org

Fuentes developed lesson plans to assist parents in her
intermediate/advanced ESL class in the Family English Program to
participate more actively as literacy advocates at home by helping the
parents develop storytelling skills in English.

3. A Lesson on Culture for Intermediate/Advanced Learners
Jean Bodman, Institute for Intensive English
Union County College, NJ

Website referenced:
    * www.peacecorps.gov/wws/bridges/lesson2/index.html

Bodman adapted several cross-cultural exercises from the site to
create an intermediate-advanced lesson plan on culture.

4. Colors and Clothes for Beginners
Melinda Anne Roberts, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA

Website referenced:
    * Colorful Clothesline

Roberts created a lesson plan to help beginning-level students use the
Internet and learn and/or practice colors, items of clothing, and the
singular and plural forms of present tense of "to be."

Peace,
Matthew Scelza
ESL Collection Project Director

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