Teaching for ELLs

Using National Geographic/Cengage's ELD Curriculum, Inside, Volume 1, to have students begin using "First", "Next", and "Then" to sequence and organize their writing. I used this with early middle school (6th grade), but could be used with younger or older newcomers if your school uses this text. The high frequency vocabulary (from, home, go, many, there, etc) from the textbook are included to incorporate and consolidate what they learned in Unit 1. Uses a graphic organizer to break the paragrap

Are you students having trouble remembering how to spell irregular past verbs? This ESL hand-out groups a variety of common irregular verbs by their spellings-very helpful to get students engaged in thinking about how the words they hear are spelled. First two pages has verbs listed by category and labelled. Pages three and four have verbs groups, but the categories are missing and students have to deduce category and write in the label. If they see the pattern that verbs with a double "e" los