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Teaching the Bible to New English Speakers

Teachers' Edition Lesson Plans

Bible Studies for New English Speakers is a complete lesson plan guide with 26 lesson plans, each of which can take up to two hours. It is for teachers, giving them lesson plan outlines to follow with many activities listed for each lesson. If you have a weekly one-hour Bible study, it can be used for a year.

Lessons include

·       Discussions

·       Vocabulary lessons

·       Bulletin boards

·       Creative writing

·       Charts

·       Bible Chants

·       Map-reading

·       Newspaper and magazine activities

·       Timelines

·       Songs

·       Survival vocabulary

A scripture reference, memory verse, lesson theme and objective are listed for each lesson.

The book is a teachers' guide; the students' text is the Scripture itself! The lesson plans give 4 to 5 hands-on activity suggestions for each lesson, plus the reading lesson, vocabulary lesson, and an introductory conversation activity. Activities are done on bulletin boards, chalkboards, butcher paper, or made by students. An "ESL Survival Kit" is suggested, which lists everyday materials to gather for students to use to do the hands-on activities. Teachers can select suggested activities to meet the needs of the varying learning/reading levels of their students. In addition, there are 50 pages of ESL teaching tips and explanations (see Table of Contents below)) and is suitable for high beginning to advanced students.

The students use the Scriptures directly as their text, rather than other formats like "stories" or "readings. Choose one of the low reading level Bible translations (go to the link to "Bible Readability" for details) so that your students can read more easily and with more understanding.

Format of lessons

Each lesson plan includes

1. Theme

2. Scripture

3. Memory verse

4. Objective

5. Lesson plan outline

A. Introductory activity

B. Vocabulary lesson,

including survival vocabulary

C. Words for special meaning

D. The reading lesson

E. Learning activities

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Welcome

Introduction to Teaching the Bible

Preparing to Teach

Bible Based Lesson Plan Format

Daily Lesson Plan Sheet

Comprehension; The Renewing of Your Mind

THEME: God - From Whom All Blessings Flow

1 God and the Bible

2 God, Jesus and Israel

3 God and Nations

4 Prayer, Israel

THEME: Jesus Loves

5 A-1* Jesus Orders a Storm to Stop

6 A-2 A Poor Woman’s Offering

7 A-3 Jesus Blesses Little Children

8 A-4 Jesus Heals a Man

9 A-5 A Woman Is Brought Before Jesus

10 A-6 Jesus Heals Ten Men

11 A-7 The Story About a Rich Man

12 A-8 What Is Most Important

THEME: Tell Me the Story of Jesus

13 B-1 The Boy Jesus in the Temple

14 B-2 The Preaching of John the Baptist

15 B-3 The Devil Tests Jesus

16 B-4 Jesus Calls His First Followers

17 B-5 The Story About Seeds

18 B-6 Jesus Heals a Sick Man

19 B-7 Jesus Feeds the 5,000

20 B-8 Jesus Heals a Boy

21 The Soldier of God

22 B-9 The Story of a Servant

THEME: What a Friend We Have in Jesus

23 Jarius’ Daughter and the Woman

24 Jesus Heals a Man Possessed

25 The Story about the Good Samaritan

26 Found!

*numbers refer to American Bible Society’s leaflets Good News for New Readers.

Appendices

A. Philosophies of ESL Teaching

B. ESL Teaching Methods

C. Research in the Teaching of English Bible Classes

D. The Readability of Bibles

E. Implications of Research for Language Classes

F. Stages in the Natural Acquisition of Language

G. Activities for the ESL Bible Study Classroom

H. Suggested Sequence of Vocabulary Topics

I. Weekly Activity Checklist

J. Populations of ESL Learners

K. Principle Parts of Irregular Verbs

L. Vocabulary lists from Good News Bible

M. Resources

(26 lessons, 150 pages on CD for $12.00)

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Last updated March 5, 2008