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I created this reader's theater for my Newcomer English students to accompany our unit on emotions. There are 8 speaking parts. The lines have small pictures next to them so students have a visual aid.

I used this readers' theater with my high school Newcomer students to practice talking about their families. Within the script, there are some blanks that the person talking needs to fill in to make the information accurate.

This is a PPT that I created for my 11th grade English Learner students. I used the PPT to build background knowledge about the American Revolution prior to beginning the American Revolution literature unit in English 11 class. The PPT also touches on the purposes of writing, explaining how the majority of the literature written during the Revolutionary era was written to persuade readers.

I used this activity during my Newcomer English unit on numbers and money. I brought in the various objects pictured, distributed money manipulatives, and assigned the students a partner. The students traveled around the classroom to different stations and took turns taking on each role and making the appropriate amounts of change. In addition to practicing money vocabulary, the students also got to practice some basic phrases and expressions.

This book was designed for my Newcomer students to illustrate and write about their family members by filling in sentence frames.

If your English Learners are like mine, it's difficult for them to figure out how to form a cohesive paragraph. I find that my students often have big jumps of logic in their writing. On this practice page, the students are given three topic sentences in a chart, along with a list of twelve sentences. The students must cut and paste the sentences into the correct category by using the topic sentence as a guide. The students can then see how the topic sentence informs the reader of what that pa