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This is great for ESL students or for younger elementary students.

Having a hard time getting your choral students to buy into the concert program you selected for them? Give them choices with teacher guidance. I used this for grades 6, 7 and 8. Students learn and discuss what goes into planning a choral program for a school concert. I had four songs programmed for a winter concert and students had to choose from two songs for each of the four categories after we had read through the songs for a while. You could use the songs I chose, as it is a very well-

This provides simple sentence starters for beginning English language learners as well as a word bank with images.

Is your concert over and you have weeks or months left before school is over? Do you need something to keep students working and engaged? I used this project for years and it was a favorite for many students. Students who graduated would come back and talk about it. These slides include step by step instructions for students to choose groups (unless they want to do a solo), select a song that they will practice and perform for the class for a grade (with criteria included), a database of ove

This is a great way to practice vocabulary while learning about character traits. The pictures with each word will benefit all students, especially ELLs. There are 8 different bingo boards and calling cards.

U.S. Symbols Bingo with words and images to help students with vocabulary and symbol recognition. Great for ELL students. Included are 8 bingo cards and call cards.

This is a good graphic organizer to use after students learn about animals and how they use their five senses to survive. After students have compared and contrasted how various animals use their senses to survive, they choose one animal to compare and contrast with a human. This includes a way to organize their ideas before writing, sentences starters for a 5-sentence paragraph with a topic and conclusion sentence and a word bank.

Highlight Independent Clauses orange and Dependent Clauses yellow. Then put them together to create a complex sentence that makes sense. Students enjoy flipping the order around too. Use the worksheet to write one of the sentences using proper punctuation and add a picture.

This is a great worksheet for ELL students or early elementary students to learn about how to classify things in different categories. The first sheet includes cut-outs that can be placed and/or glued onto the worksheet under each category. Students could also write the words on the pictures instead.

I was a middle school choral teacher for 21 years and I had a very successful program. These slides will help you teach your students posture, focus, breathing, ear training, solfa and get some movement into your classroom. Included are some exercises, tips on how to use the slides, a self-reflection for students at the end of rehearsal, an 8-measure sight singing composition project, and some rules that worked for me and my classes of 50 middle schoolers.

This is a worksheet for ELL students that goes along with the HMH rigby reader "Super Survival Senses" but it could be used in a general lesson about how animals use their five senses. Pictures and sentence frames included to help students compare and contrast how animals use their senses.

These are slides that I used with my beginning middle school chorus students to get them sight singing. The slides include audio for students to practice with at home, step by step instructions on how to successfully sight read starting with stepwise movement and then moving to skips within the I triad, Google slides that you can assign and grade, a singing test rubric and a suggestion for assessing students in small groups. These are tried and true methods that I used with my middle school ch

This goes with the HMH "Super Citizen" video and is excellent for ELLs.

Use this worksheet to help students make predictions before, during and after reading the story "Too Many Tamales". This worksheet is meant to be done as a class with stopping points along the way. The teacher can have students answer independently or as a whole group. Great resource for ELL students.

These slides have a good step by step method that have worked for many years with my 7th and 8th grade chorus students. Included are pictures, explanations, audio that students can practice along with and an assessment.

Use these slides to start teaching tied rhythms to your students. This is a step by step explanation that you can practice as a class. It also includes two Google Slide worksheets that can be used as an assessment or grade.

Use this graphic organizer for students to write short descriptions or draw pictures for each category. This can be used to describe a story's setting or for a personal narrative among many other things.

Use this worksheet after teaching students about how a dairy farmer milks cows and sends the milk to a factory where it can be bottled and/or produced into other dairy products.

Students can use the pictures to sequence the steps of planting a seed and write a simple sentence to describe the steps.

Here is a writing prompt for your ESL students which includes sentence frames to write a cohesive paragraph.