3-in-1: Content, Language Development, and Emotional Literacy

I love a good 3-in-1. A hydrating lip shine that also delivers color and can be used as a cream blush? Yes, please. How about a sunscreen that soothes my rosacea, and includes a bit of tinted coverage? Most definitely. My husband likes to take the 3-in-1 too far. He showed me this 13-in-1 product on Reddit he was considering purchasing. I’m glad it doesn’t exist!

What if we could do this same thing in the classroom? Deliver lessons that align with our content standards, support language development, and coach students in emotional literacy? I’m all in!

The key to wrapping these three power objectives together is to begin by choosing a content standard that pairs well with emotional literacy. Here is an example from a seventh-grade science class in their unit on body systems. 

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In terms of which emotional literacy targets to teach, CASEL, a nonprofit organization working to advance the science and evidence-based practice of social and emotional learning, has identified a framework that is widely used to develop emotional literacy standards. Read more here: https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-is-the-casel-framework/

After the content and emotional literacy target have been identified, develop a language target, identifying which language domains you would like students to use to show that they have met the content objective (listening, speaking, reading, or writing). If it is an expressive language target (speaking or writing), include which words you would like students to use. 

See the full lesson plan here:
 https://padlet.com/elise266/discover-connect-respond-hh7rquei3uiua4fj​

And keep checking back for additional lesson ideas in other content areas.