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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

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

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

A perfect Halloween story for ENL Beginners!Beginner English language learners are crying out for stimulating texts to develop their reading and language skills. These texts are hard to find. This story is part of a collection of high interest material specifically designed by an experienced ESL teacher for ENL, ESL, ELL students. It is short (230 words), yet contains meaningful content and exciting activities that are sure to provoke discussion. It is designed to be used to easily teach ELA con

Two perfect Halloween stories and a nonfiction article for ENL Beginners bundled with a Pumpkin Scary Story Paragraph Pie to help your ELLs analyze any scary literature! This special Halloween Bundle includes: The Monkey's Paw (Complete - ESL Beginner story, activities and graphic organizers)A Strange Teacher (Complete - ESL Beginner story and graphic organizers)Pumpkin Scary Story Paragraph Pie (a two-side graphic organizer.)The non-fiction article, The Ghost School (comes with ideas for teache

A great value bundle of Little Match Girl + ESL Christmas Fun Activity Pack + something for the first days back in the New Year! This will give you weeks of activities and readings in the run up to Christmas and then a lesson and handout for the first days back. The Little Match GirlProduct DescriptionTackle vocabulary and ELA critical thinking -- including inferencing -- with a high-interest story, and bundled lesson ideas, graphic organizers and activities! An ESL adaptation of the classic Ha

Introduce your ELLs and lower-level readers to the incredible and nuanced story of Squanto, the first Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims in the New World in this colorful multi-part text. This key moment in social studies details the first Thanksgiving and the establishment of the Plymouth Colony. It is brought to life with an accessible illustrated text that clearly explains the core ideas including: What was the Mayflower Compact and why was it important?The fact that the "New World" was not new at

An ESL adaptation of the classic Hans Christian Andersen Christmas and New Year story. Tackle vocabulary and ELA critical thinking -- including inferencing -- with a high-interest story, and bundled lesson ideas, graphic organizers and activities! This three-part story is part of a collection of high-interest material specifically designed for ENL, ESL, ELL students. It is short enough for beginners (spanning 15 pages of text, activities, and graphic organizers), yet contains meaningful content