Asking and Answering Questions! WIDA Level 2 - Bridging to Level 3 with Support

Interactive Cloud Observation Lesson (Student-Centered Language Creation)

Here is a fun activity I designed for multilingual learners that focuses on what students are able to do as language users when given the right scaffolds and creative tools. This resource was built in Keynote and uses drag-and-drop interaction, audio recording, photo capture, and markup to support authentic student voice.

What Students Are Able to Do

Across this lesson, students are able to:

• Build complete sentences by selecting and arranging words
• Write original sentences using models as a guide
• Read their own writing aloud and record their voice
• Observe the world around them and connect real images to language
• Express personal ideas rather than repeating fixed responses

The essential question students respond to throughout the lesson is: "What do you see?"

Slides 1–9: Interactive Sentence Building

Students use movable word banks to drag and drop words into sentence frames. This allows them to:

• Experiment with word order
• Test different sentence combinations
• Visually see how sentences are built
• Gain confidence before writing independently

Because the words move, students are actively constructing meaning, not passively filling in blanks.

Slides 10–15: Writing + Speaking

Students respond to the prompt “What do you see?” by:

• Writing their own sentence
• Using earlier slides as a reference rather than a script
• Recording themselves reading their sentence aloud

The microphone icon signals intentional speaking practice and gives students a low-pressure way to hear and reflect on their own language.

Slides 16–20: Real-World Observation + Creativity

Students:

• Take their own photos of clouds using the iPad camera
• Mark up the image to outline shapes or objects they notice
• Write an original sentence using the frame “I see a ___.”

This step shifts students from concrete visuals to personal interpretation, encouraging creativity, imagination, and ownership of language.

Attachments

Answering and Asking Questions - Clouds.key

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