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Teachers can get to know the reading habits and preference of their students. This survey include questions that ask about students': - reading frequency - reasons for reading - reading habits - strengths and struggles - interest in different genres - book's recommendations With the data collected, teachers can plan their guided reading material more effectively and build a classroom library that interests their students. Teachers can also give out the survey at different times of the year to se

A simple checklist for your students to remind themselves what are needed for each paragraph of a 5-paragraph persuasive or argumentative essay. This tool helps them to monitor their writing and understand your expectations. I have also used it for peer editing. Once students finish their essay, exchange it with a partner so they can check if there is anything missing in each other's writing. A fun cartoon about persuasion is added on the page :P

This PowerPoint includes 10 different pictures (with questions) for your ELLs to practice the picture description section of the NYSESLAT Speaking Test. # Pictures are appropriate to ELLs in 1st and 2nd grade # Black and white version, just like the real test, included # Quick link to the NYSESLAT Rubrics on the slideshow

This is a game to find out who has the talent to find out every little detail to describe a picture. In other words, you need to scrutinize like a detective, and describe like reporter! Directions: Each player has to scrutinize the picture for details and write down three descriptive phrases (see example) within 2 minutes. Players, in turn, read their answer aloud. The last winner (or the youngest person in the first round) starts first. Player mark their own answer sheets by circling acceptab

This set of 18 flash cards is designed for parents and school teachers whose kids are learning Chinese. The theme of this set is places within a school, such as classroom, gym, cafeteria, and etc. Simply cut the cards out. Place them around the school, or use them to help your kid learn Chinese. On each card, there are: 1) English term 2) Traditional or Simplified Chinese term 3) pīn yīn for Mandarin pronunciation *I've included an alternative set of card that includes a picture for each term.

This pdf includes an activity that teachers can use after reading aloud Not all Princesses Dress in Pink. The aim of this activity is to allow students to compare their personalized princess to typical fairy tale princesses.Students pick one of the princesses provided on the worksheet, and illustrate the way their princess dresses. In addition, they use the literacy frame/ sentence frame to describe their princess and to compare her to other princesses.

This PPT allows you to introduce Central Park to your students in 45 minutes. To align with the requirements of CCLS, the texts chosen are high in complexity (complex sentences and juicy vocabulary) for lower elementary students, compelling and concise.In addition, this PPT also allows you to conduct a quick (1-2 min) grammar lesson, investigating the language function of "by". This suits those who use whole-language approach to teach content and language in their classroom. It is time to enhan

Kids love Mad Libs, but teachers rarely use them for educational purposes. This packet is created for teachers who want to teach grammar and have some fun with your students. To motivate your students, start off with creating a Mad Lib (Jingle Bell) with the whole class. Then, let students know it is important we know the part-of-speech of words as many Mad Libs require us to know the specific grammar terms. Use the student friendly graphic organizer, and brainstorm different verbs, nouns, adje

Teachers can use this poem to reinforces the study of long e vowels with different spelling patterns. Instructions: - Read and comprehend the poem with students - Ask students to write down all the words that consists of a long e sound on index cards (also the meaning at the back for ELLs) - sort the vowels into different long vowel groups (ea, ee, e, -y)

There are 2 ways you can use this: 1 - While teaching text features of non-fictional texts, you can have students fill out the boxes to identify the features. 2 - After teaching students how to identify text features in nonfictional texts, you can use this worksheet to access their learning. Quick & Easy!

This engaging and interactive 16:9 slideshow is designed to foster social and emotional learning (SEL) in your classroom. Over the course of 2-3 days, both teachers and students will have the opportunity to get to know each other better. Through faceless self-portraits, students will express their inner selves, and use linguistic frames to provide constructive feedback during the gallery walk. Through faceless self-portraits and the gallery walk, English Language Learners ELLs engage in meaningf

This activity can be used to solidify 2nd to 4th grade students’ learning of different long vowel patterns through Hink Pinks. This product include a detailed lesson plan and Hink Pinks examples. The lesson plan consists of instruction for motivation, mini-lesson, independent work, and closure.

This graphic organizer is a handy tool for student to track how a character transforms throughout a story. Students have to gather evidence of the character's traits in the beginning and at the end of the story. With the evidence collected, they can make a conclusion of the traits. In addition, they need to look for the reason(s) why the character transforms, and jot it down on the organizer. For younger students, teachers can prepare pictures (evidence) from the story, and guide student how

This graphic organizer helps students to comprehend the cause-and-effect relationships within both fictional and non-fictional reading. As they are reading, they can pause and investigate the relationships between events, no matter if it's in science, social studies, ELA, or even math! With the inclusion of transitional phrases, such as "therefore" and "since", teachers can guide students (especially ELLs) to transfer ideas on the graphic organizer into writing. This is also useful for younger

This pdf document includes words that are from Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat. After reading the book, teachers only needs to print the word sort out, and students can enjoy the activity! For teachers of ELLs, images are presented to help your students understand some words. Word patterns include: -ay, -all, -ame, -ish

This pdf document includes words that consist of a r-controlled vowel (ar, er, ir, or, ur) pattern. Simply print the sorts out , and let your students enjoy sorting! For teachers of ELLs, images are presented to help your students understand some words. For variation, teachers can cut our all the words with an r-controlled sound, and let students sort into ar, er, ir, or, and ur lists. Sorts: 1) ar, short a, long a (a_e) 2) er, short e, long e (ee) 3) ir, short i, long i (i_e) 4) or, ore, short

♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ ❤♥ This file includes linguistic frames (sentence frames) that guide students to be a better writer. These frames are more sophisticated with juicer academic vocabulary to make enhance their language skills. Multiple studies highlights that linguistic frames reduce students' time in dressing up their writing, so they can focus more on organizing their thoughts. This is also beneficial for students, such as ELLs and students with learning challenges, w

This pdf document includes words that consist of a long vowel (a,e,i,o,u) pattern. Teachers only needs to print it out, and students can enjoy the sorts! For teachers of ELLs, images are presented to help your students understand some words. Common long a patterns: ai, ay, a_e Less common: eigh, ey Common long e patterns: ea, ee, e_e, e Less common: ie Common long i patterns: ie, i_e, y Less common: igh, i followed by nd or ld Common long o patterns: o_e, oa, ow Less common: oe, o followed b

Very often, students are asked to jot notes, but some of them are confused; thus, they end up jotting down irrelevant notes or not jotting down anything. The use of a reading guide aids students, especially English language learners, in independent reading. This reading guide includes a book trailer, suggested vocabulary for review, guided questions and critical thinking questions for post-reading. Book Trailer (Pre-reading): Provide background knowledge about the book. Vocabulary (Pre-readi

This simple graphic organizer is a handy tool for your upper elementary-, middle- and high-school students to infer from texts. It is also a formative assessment for us to dissect students' thinking when they infer, and understand the challenges students may face when inferring. The Making Inference Chart includes three parts: 1. Clues from the text 2. My schema 3. Inference Students need to use textual evidence combined with their schema (background knowledge) to support their inference. Te