English as a second language

Welcome to ESL at River Bend Middle!

ESL classes focus on strengthening a student's English Language and Academic Language Skills in four areas: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing, so that students will be successful in core areas (ELA, Science, Social Studies, Math) and gain life-long language skills.

River Bend Middle School offers 3 ESL courses: ESL 1, ESL 2, and Advanced Language Support (ALS).

2022-2023 ESL Department

(left) Lexie Higgins

(middle) Mandy Eastwood

(right) Lita Tayao

Curriculum Topics

6th

  • Myths

  • Exploring Adversity

  • Our Living Planet-Research Skills

  • Protecting Our Planet-Analyzing Plot Development

  • Our Precious World-Using Non-Fiction Texts to Learn About Conservation and Writing a Research Paper to Support a Claim


7th and 8th

  • Challenges for Survival-Writing to Summarize Events, Point of View, and Compare and Contrasting Journeys

  • Persuasion Across Time and Space-Identifying and Analyzing Claims

  • Persuasion Across Time-Ethos, Logos, and Pathos in Civil Rights Movement Speeches

  • Persuasion Across Time-Analyzing and Producing Persuasive Texts