Jennifer Baker

These word book pages were created to give English language learners (ELLs) a picture dictionary of vocabulary learned through the year. ELL Kindergarten students make the word book pages while they are learning about that theme and review the vocabulary during Independent Reading. These pages are also useful for newcomer students in other grades who need to learn basic English vocabulary. The pages were created in Microsoft Word, and can be displayed on an Interactive Whiteboard for discussi

I created this template to use with my 3rd, 4th and 5th grade ELL students, who are reading below grade-level and do not fit into typical reading groups. I incorporated the strategies that they need to work on, so I can access those reading strategies with lower level books.

These flashcards have a social studies vocabulary word on the front and a child-friendly definition and picture on the back. They are intended to compliment your social studies instruction and give students the opportunity to review.

These flashcards have a science vocabulary word on the front and a child-friendly definition and picture on the back. They are intended to compliment your science instruction and give students the opportunity to review.

I created this document to help make the familiar M&M Ice-Breaker activity accessible for my adult English students. I teach an adult English class at my school for parents of my ELL students. I made simple sentence frames for the parents to use for each color M&M. This gets everyone talking and enjoying chocolate!

This was created to be a pre- and post-vocabulary assessment for ELL Kindergarten students. Before the spring unit, the students drew pictures for each word, based on their background knowledge. After the spring unit, the students drew pictures for each word, based on what they learned. Since this assessment is given later in the year, there is room at the bottom for the student to write a sentence about spring.

These flashcards have a language arts vocabulary word on the front and a child-friendly definition and picture on the back. They are intended to compliment your language arts instruction and give students the opportunity to review.

I created this to give to my adult English students at the beginning of our English classes, to see how they felt about learning English. They took it again at the end, to see if the classes helped them learn.

I created this simple template to help my school's second-language parents call the school when their child is sick. I printed the templates on bright orange cardstock. We filled in the blanks during my adult English class and the parents were asked to keep it at home by their phone.

These flashcards have a math vocabulary word on the front and a child-friendly definition and picture on the back. They are intended to compliment your math instruction and give students the opportunity to review.

This was created to be a pre- and post-vocabulary assessment for ELL Kindergarten students. Before the summer unit, the students drew pictures for each word, based on their background knowledge. After the summer unit, the students drew pictures for each word, based on what they learned. Since this assessment is given later in the year, there is room at the bottom for the student to write a sentence about summer.

I created this to give to my Intermediate adult English students at the beginning of our classes, to see how they felt about learning English. They took it again at the end, to see if the classes helped them learn.

This is a simple homework page that I give to my adult English students to have them practice am/is/are.

I created this homework to help my adult English students practice food vocabulary. Part of their assignment is to practice the food words with their child(ren), who are my ELL students.

This was created to be a pre- and post-vocabulary assessment for ELL Kindergarten students. Before the fall unit, the students drew pictures for each word, based on their background knowledge. After the fall unit, the students drew pictures for each word, based on what they learned.

This was created to be a pre- and post-vocabulary assessment for ELL Kindergarten students. Before the winter unit, the students drew pictures for each word, based on their background knowledge. After the winter unit, the students drew pictures for each word, based on what they learned.