Engaging ELLs

Wordless Movies are great for English Language Learners! A wordless movie are movies that don't have any words and tell their story through the illustrations. Piper is a 2016 computer-animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Written and directed by Alan Barillaro. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards, making it the first Pixar short film to win an Oscar since For the Birds. I’ve created worksheets and activities to accompany the shor

Prepositions are difficult to master so extra practice for your students is important! In this worksheet students have to complete sentences with missing prepositions. There are pictures to serve as visual support. You can differentiate with your students depending on the worksheet you give them. In the first worksheet there are extra prepositions in the word box and in the second worksheet there is only 7 prepositions in the word box. This can be used as homework, independent practice or eve

Use this preposition assessment as a pre test/post test, independent practice or homework! Students will look at the picture and have to pick the correct sentence that describes it. Answer key is provided.

Wordless Movies are great for English Language Learners! A wordless movie are movies that don't have any words and tell their story through the illustrations. I’ve created worksheets and activities to accompany the following short films. These resources require no preparation - all you have to do is print and play the short film! - Piper  Inference Chart  Who, What, When, How question worksheet  Who, What, When, How question worksheet (with lines)  Character Traits Worksheet  Collective Nou

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Students will use their knowledge about prepositions to complete this table! Answer key is provided.

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Wordless Movies are great for English Language Learners! A wordless movie are movies that don't have any words and tell their story through the illustrations. Geri's Game is a 1997 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar and written and directed by Jan Pinkava. I’ve created worksheets and activities to accompany the short film. Keep in mind that YouTube can take down videos at anytime. Included in this packet:  Building Background— Chess  Who, What, When, How Question Worksheet

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ring the heartwarming Pixar short Lava into your classroom with this engaging, standards-aligned activity packet designed for grades 2–4! Perfect for English Language Learners and early elementary readers, this resource builds skills in comprehension, emotional literacy, writing, and science. With a strong emphasis on CCSS-aligned activities, students explore themes of hope, connection, and natural phenomena through listening, art, discussion, writing, and poetry. Great for sub plans, literacy

This hands on project is a great way to get your students interacting with prepositions in a fun way. Your students will become chefs– creating their own preposition pizza! Students will cut out the triangles and circles. Students will have to match the word to the corresponding picture. Students can then share their pizza with their classmates. A fun craftivity reinforcing the concepts of prepositions! Check out my preposition packet where you can get the Pizza Craftivity as well - https://ww

Question Word Activity Introduce your students to question words or “wh” questions. This is a great way for students to reinforce this important vocabulary so they can be successful in all of their classes and outside of school as well. Wh questions allow your student to find out more about a topic. This is a great hands on or tactile activity for your students to engage with question words. There are two options one in only English and one in both English and Spanish depending on your stude

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A great hands on way to reinforce Community Worker vocabulary! Visual support is great for ELL learners. Directions: 1. Have everyone choose one set of colored game pieces. (Each player needs to be a different color.) Decide who will go first. 2. Stack the playing cards face down. 3. When it is your turn, take one card from the stack. Read the sentence out loud, filling in the blanks. You can see if you are correct by checking answers on the answer key card. 4. If you answer co

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Preposition practice makes perfect! Activities included: I have, Who has? Game (2 versions, 1 with just pictures, 1 with pictures and words) Preposition Pizza Craftivity Preposition Matching Activity Preposition Bingo Preposition Fill In the Blank

On February 8, 2017 Senator Elizabeth Warren was silenced while speaking out in Congress. This package includes a biography on Elizabeth Warren and activities to have your students think critically about their own voice in politics. Package Includes:  Fast facts about Elizabeth Warren  11 Vocabulary Words ( You can pre teach the vocabulary found in the biography)  Blank vocabulary page to add vocabulary words you want to teach  One page biography about Elizabeth Warren  Graphic Organizer