CALLA+Project

**The Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA) ** A CALLA lesson has five parts: 1) Preparation – Determine what the students already know, what skills they have, what learning strategies they have. 2) Presentation – Present the new information in as concrete a way as possible. 3) Practice – Using the strategies just learned or learned earlier, the students practice learning and applying the new information. 4) Evaluation – Learning is evaluated through peer evaluation, self evaluation, teacher evaluation. Both the product of the learning and the process of learning should be evaluated. 5) Expansion – The new knowledge must be integrated with the previous knowledge. Application to new situations should be possible 
 * Content---the lesson content is determined by the curriculum in the core studies and related arts.


 * Language---Grammar, vocabulary, academic skills such as describing, creating, explaining, classifying are the areas that need to be covered.


 * Strategy---describe in detail how the content and the language skills will be taught to the learners.
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 Below is an example of my CALLA Lesson on **"It's A Frog's Life!". Enjoy. 

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Kimberly Gannon MTSU Graduate Assistant kdc3x@mtsu.edu