Kittens n' Books

A perfect hands-on, Life-skills activity for any Intermediate/ Adult ESL unit on Money, Banking, or Shopping. In this lesson, students will use a graphic organizer to take notes on the names of each of the U.S. coins as well as key coin identifiers. The teacher may direct them to a web quest instead for this activity. Then, students will practice counting, writing, and verbalizing various amounts of money. They will also practice both formal and informal ways to verbalize amounts of money. Fin

In this lesson, students will read and discuss the components of a cover letter. Then, they will write a cover letter of their own. This is a stand-alone lesson is a great formal letter writing exercise for the ESL Classroom. It is from my Adult Intermediate ESL unit on Jobs. It would also be appropriate for an Adult Advanced ESL class. Included in this lesson, you will find: A Sample Cover Letter & Matching Exercise (1 page)Discussion Questions (1 page) 2 Practice Cover Letters (2 pages) 2

In this lesson, students will analyze a real-life resume for a pastry chef and discuss the components of a resume. Then, they will watch a short video and discuss common resume-writing mistakes. This is a stand-alone lesson is perfect for the ESL Classroom. It is from my Adult Intermediate ESL unit on Jobs. Included in this lesson, you will find: A Resume formatted with room for annotations (1 page)Resume discussion questions (1 page) Activity: Preparing to Write a Resume (1 page) *CASAS TES

A perfect Listening & Speaking Lesson for any Intermediate/ Adult ESL unit on Jobs. In this lesson, students will learn the cultural norms surrounding Job Interviews in the U.S. Students will take and discuss a survey about the Do's and Don'ts of Interviewing. Then, they will watch two job interviews and evaluate each interviewee's performance. Finally, students can practice interviewing each other with an Interview script/role-play activity. Included in this lesson, you will find: Vocabula

Job-skills are an important part of my Adult ESL classroom. More important, is the students' exposure to real-world texts. Newspapers are a great tool for learning common job ad abbreviations! I use this lesson as an opener for my Jobs Unit. This lesson is complete with: A suggested lesson plan for teachers (1 page)Photos to spark a discussion on ways to find a job (1 page)4 help wanted ads for students to annotate along with discussion questions for each help wanted ad (2 pages)An abbreviati

An enjoyable lesson for all the shopaholics out there. This year, I have a lot of returning students in my Adult ESL class. So, I decided to spice up our Zoom class with a non-fiction reading about Black Friday, its meaning, and traditions. Love it or hate it, the tradition of stuffing your cart full of bags after you've stuffed your mouth full of turkey has grown over the last twenty years. Recently, Black Friday has expanded to include Small-Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and Giving Tuesda

Have a bit of fun on Zoom or Google Meet with your distance/digital learning class or even with friends and family! This product gives you all the materials and directions needed to play Guess Who I Am 1: Describing People using video conferencing software! Similar to Guess Who, this game gives students a chance to ask y/n questions about appearances while exploring our rich diversity. Play with 2 people, or play with a group! Fun for all ages! You will get: Instructions on how to play Guess Wh

Have a bit of fun on Zoom or Google Hangouts with your distance/digital learning class or even with friends and family! This product gives you all the materials and directions needed to play Guess Who I Am using video conferencing software! Play with 2 people, or play with a group! Fun for all ages! You will get: Instructions on how to play Guess Who I Am? using video conferencing apps like Zoom and Google Meet!8 Game boards: (2) Describing People/ Describing People Jr. (2) Superheroes/ Superh

Have a bit of fun on Zoom or Google Meet with your distance/digital learning class or even with friends and family! This product gives you all the materials and directions needed to play Guess Who I Am 4: Community Helpers (Jobs) using video conferencing software! Play with 2 people, or play with a group! Fun for all ages! You will get: Instructions on how to play Guess Who I Am? using video conferencing apps like Zoom and Google Hangouts!2 Game boards: (1) Community Helpers game board (1) smal

Have a bit of fun on Zoom or Google Meet with your distance/digital learning class or even with friends and family! This product gives you all the materials and directions needed to play Guess Who I Am! 3: MONSTERS Edition using video conferencing software! Play with 2 people, or play with a group! Fun for all ages! You will get: Instructions on how to play Guess Who I Am! using video conferencing apps like Zoom and Google Hangouts!2 Game boards: (1) Monsters game board (1) Modified Monsters "

Have a bit of fun on Zoom or Google Meet with your distance/digital learning class or even with friends and family! This product gives you all the materials and directions needed to play Guess Who I Am 2: Superheroes Edition using video conferencing software! Play with 2 people, or play with a group! Fun for all ages! You will get: Instructions on how to play Guess Who I Am? using video conferencing apps like Zoom and Google Hangouts!2 Game boards: (1) Superheroes game board (1) smaller/ modifi

Have a bit of fun on Zoom with your distance/digital learning class or even with friends and family! This product gives you all the materials and directions needed to play the classic game Connect Four using video conferencing software! Play with 2 people, or play with a group! Fun for all ages! You will get: Instructions on how to play Connect Four using video conferencing apps like Zoom!A link to my interactive and shareable Google Sheets game board.

Have a bit of fun on Zoom with a friend or family member! Assign as a social/interactive game to partners in class! Math teachers edit to help kids learn coordinates! This product gives you all the materials and directions needed to play the classic game Battleship using video conferencing software! Fun for all ages! You will get: Instructions on how to play Battleship using video conferencing apps like Zoom!1 Editable Excel file of the Battleship game board! (This board may be printed out or

Have a bit of fun on Zoom or Google Meet with your distance/digital learning class or even with friends and family! This product gives you all the materials and directions needed to play the game Categories (Similar to Scattergories) using video conferencing software! Fun for all ages! You will get: Instructions on how to play Categories using video conferencing apps like Zoom! 12 pages of Categories Lists UPDATED on 5/11/20 to make all PDF forms fillable!7 Categories Jr. Lists; UPDATED on

I use this "Double-Mean Hamburger Outline" to give students a silly way to remember the organization of an expository essay. I use this organizer to help students create rough drafts of expository essays for their Texas end of course exam; however, this graphic organizer also helps students write longer, more developed writing. You are receiving this graphic organizer in both Word and PDF formats, so you can edit this product to fit the needs of your classroom. Enjoy! Please see my store to g

In order to meet standards on the Texas end of course test, English students have to write a 26 line expository essay. After reviewing model essays, I use these documents to help students practice organization and style. This lesson helps to review aspects of leads & thesis statements, body paragraphs, and conclusions. In this bundle, you will receive: -10 page Expository Essay review packet -2 page Expository Essay Outline I am also including (for free) 2 sample expository essay prompts.

I use this to help students practice the important aspects of a narrative essay before they write their own. After reading and annotating a model narrative essay, students and I use the Narrative Essay Packet included in this bundle to practice writing introduction leads, sensory details, and strong conclusions. In this bundle, you will get: -a 2 page assignment hand out with MLA guidelines attached. -a 7 page narrative essay review packet -a 4 page narrative essay self-revise and self-edit c

Students will learn how to apply the following comma rules to their writing: -Commas in a Series -Commas + FANBOYS -Commas between equal adjectives -Commas separating nonessential information -Commas used with introductory elements -Conjunctive adverbs used with commas and semi-colons. You will get: -A 17 page PowerPoint Presentation -4 pages of notes + mini practices of each rule to accompany PPT -3 student writing practice pages -1 answer key (mini-practices) All elements come in Word and PD

This activity incorporates many of Marzano's six steps to learning new vocabulary! Students will define each word and discuss the connection to the visual representation, create a sentence using the word, and discuss a true/false question about each word. I love using this practice as a bell-ringer or focus activity during the week we cover The Gift of the Magi; however, this practice can be used as a stand-alone assignment or a review! My students always find this easy to review before a quick