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Make Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks accessible and fun to all your students with these colorful, standards-based lessons! This collection of chapter mini-units gives you everything you need to explore the inspiring world of Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks with your classes (apart from the original novel -- which you will need access to). Each chapter is in its own file to make it easy to print out or assign remotely using TPT Easel or as a PDF via Google Classroom or Kami. I have also included Google

An adapted text version of the Halloween classic story to assign on TPT Digital, through Google Classroom. Have you ever wanted to read "The Monkey's Paw" with your class but knew your students would be put off by the language? Then this is perfect for you! The chilling classic is adapted to make it accessible to less advanced readers, special education classrooms and intermediate ESL and EFL students. It also makes a fine story for the regular ELA classroom. Tackle vocabulary and ELA critical t

This is a bundle of two text levels of The Monkey's Paw, plus activities and lessons - they assign straight to Google Classroom (with no prep!) via TPT Digital. The two levels cover Beginner to Advanced ESL students and ELA classes. Perfect for differentiated or tiered instruction! The package also comes with the original text Tackle vocabulary and ELA critical thinking -- including inferencing, irony and literary elements -- with the story, bundled lesson ideas, six reusable graphic organizers

Make your year a little easier, and give your ELL students high quality, high interest, fun materials! If you covered everything in this pack it would probably take around 70 school days. That's a lot of material for your school year -- nearly 4 months! Many of these 30+ resources work with multiple levels and work on both paper and online (via TpT's digital platform they can be assigned straight to Google Classroom). Some are specifically for newcomers / beginners, some are for intermediate st

These bright, colorful and fun adapted text versions of The Tell-Tale Heart make Edgar Allan Poe's classic accessible to a wider variety of readers, including ESL, ENL and Special Ed. The bundle includes 5-days of lesson plans, based around an initial and then close read of the text, which comes at 2-adapted levels, plus the original text. See preview for details. It is easily set up for DISTANCE LEARNING on TPT Digital, shared via Google Classroom. The PDF also prints out for in class instru

This bright, colorful and fun adapted text version of The Tell-Tale Heart makes Poe's classic accessible to a wider variety of readers, including ESL, ENL and Special Ed. The unit includes 5-days of lesson plans, based around an initial and then close read of the text. See preview for details. It is easily set up for DISTANCE LEARNING on TPT Digital, shared via Google Classroom. The PDF also prints out for in class instruction. Unit includes:An illustrated adapted text of The Tell-Tale Heart

Have a ton of fun in the weeks leading up to Halloween (if not all of October)! Teach vocab, grammar and ELA skills with this great bundle of stories and a non-fiction article for your classroom, all specifically designed for newcomer / beginner English Language Learners. All can be assigned to ELLs remotely, via Google Classroom, using TPT's Easel or printed out. As a bonus, The Interlopers (Google Slides version) also comes with a higher level, perfect for intermediate ESL students. _________

This bright, colorful and fun adapted text version of The Tell-Tale Heart makes Poe's classic accessible to ESL and ENL beginners and newcomers. The unit includes 5-days of lesson plans, based around an initial and then close read of the text. Please open up the preview for details to make sure the text is right for your classroom -- it will be a challenge for your ELLs, but hopefully worth it.It is easily set up for DISTANCE LEARNING on TPT Digital, shared via Google Classroom. The PDF also

Have you ever wanted to read "The Monkey's Paw" with your class but knew your students would be put off by the archaic language? Then this is perfect for you! The chilling classic is adapted to make it accessible to less advanced readers and ESL students. It also makes a fine story for the regular ELA classroom. Tackle vocabulary and ELA critical thinking -- including inferencing, irony and literary elements -- with the story, bundled lesson ideas, six reusable graphic organizers and activities!

This is a great activity for the first school days of January! A short reading (perfect for beginner ESL / ENL students) informs students about some New Year's Eve traditions around the world. After some reading-based activities, including a future and past tense refresher and map activities, students interview each other to ask about traditions in their home countries, which they write down. Students then reflect on the year that just past, and make some resolutions for the year to come. As the

Have you ever wanted to read "The Monkey's Paw" with your ESL class? Then this is perfect for you! The chilling classic is adapted to make it accessible to high beginner ESL students and less advanced readers. It is also available at a higher (but still adapted level) for regular ELA classroom. Please note - this will be highly challenging for absolute newcomers, unless you can add native language support. Please check out the preview to give you a sense of the language level.Tackle vocabulary

This will be a great multiple-week lead into Thanksgiving! Treat your ELLs and lower level readers to the story of early settlements in the U.S. in these colorful accessible units. Around Halloween experience the spooky mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Then take your students on board the cramped conditions of the Mayflower. Finally experience the tragedy and triumph of the Pilgrim's colony at Plymouth and witness the majesty and help of Squanto that led to the first Thanksgiving. The Ma

Have you ever wanted to read "The Monkey's Paw" with your ESL class? Then this is perfect story for you! The chilling classic is adapted to make it accessible to Beginner ESL students and less advanced readers. This is a remote version, designed to work on computers so you can assign it via Google Classroom using the TPT Digital platform. It is also available at a higher (but still adapted level) for regular ELA classroom and a paper PDF version, which includes all sorts of fun graphic organiz

Do your students struggle to write a powerful paragraph? Mine too! I made this series to help them master writing a simple paragraph. I saw real improvements when I started using it once a week. The series "Powerful Paragraphs" is designed to boost your students' writing skills. It was made for both ESL students (English Language Learners), and native English speakers who need help structuring a powerful paragraph. The process is simple. For each activity, look at the image together and brainsto

This is a very simple ten-question Google Form quick quiz to assign after reading "The Tell-Tale Heart". It can be automatically graded after you read the story and easily assigned on Google Classroom. These are basic questions, that do not require incredibly detailed analysis. A bonus question asks the student to find a quote to show an example of repetition. There are two similar versions of the form included, with questions that match both the original story and my adapted versions of the st

An exciting story at two levels: one for newcomers ELLs that is just the right length for their fledgling English skills and one for beginners to intermediate which is more of a challenge. Perfect for tiered instruction. The two texts in this bundle are the same story, but the higher level contains more details and a greater language challenge, meaning you can differentiate in your classroom. The higher level text is split into Part 1 and Part 2, both with its own sets of writing activities and

Get your year off to an amazing start with this bundle for newcomer and beginner ESL students who are learning English. It is likely to keep you going for several weeks! DAY ONE - Get to know your students. Epic SMART Goals. - Analyze a summary of JFK's speech adapted for ELLs and then have them create their own SMART goals and Mission Crest for the year, at two reading levels. Then cover meeting and greeting, classroom and conversational vocab in the two fiction stories written just for beginne

A bright and fun two-side handout that includes icebreaker activities for students and some information about their history and learning styles. It is aimed for use in the ESL / ENL classroom, with a map to show where students came from but can be used with any student. You can follow up with students sharing their responses with a partner and then the class. It is a great chance for students to tell you "all about me"! Like many of my resources, you can easily assign it on TPT's digital platfor

Allow your students to explore the famed Saki short story "The Interlopers" via Google Classroom. It's a great story - an exciting classic, full of conflict and irony. And now it's accessible to all. This packet includes the original short story, plus adaptations at two more levels, ideal for lower level readers or beginner and intermediate ESL/ENL students. (This would not be suitable for an AP class, but is rather aimed at students who need some help making classic texts accessible.) First, st

Two much simplified versions of the Halloween classic! Choose the language level and length that best fits your students. This file is just the text (adapted at two different levels). This same text is also available as a student handout with extensive activities, vocabulary support, ELA guidance, graphic organizers and images. It is also available as a handout in an even simpler version for ENL beginner students. Have you ever wanted to read "The Monkey's Paw" to your class but knew your stud