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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

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

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

Have some classroom fun this holiday season with your beginner ESL, EFL, ENL students! Admire Christmas in Paris, then read (a VERY brief) passage about some Santa traditions around the world. Next, some geography practice: find the countries on the map, and draw the snacks given to Santa. After a bit of writing and a word search -- plus a handful of comprehension questions -- students write a story about the children in the Santa picture. Or use the comic grid to show what happens next. Finally

Make Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks accessible and fun to all your students! This single chapter mini-unit on Chapter 2 - Ana - gives you everything you need to explore the inspiring world of Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks with your classes. You can teach it alone, or buy it with units for the rest of the book. The accessible handouts make enthralling teaching easy(ish)! Check out the preview to get an overview of the four-day lesson complete with lesson plans. Topics covered through use of the text a

Ever wanted a colorful, fun activity for students to do after reading their choice of nonfiction? Here it is. It's designed to be flexible. For example, let a student choose an article on NewsELA or a magazine and then they fill this in on Google Slides, through Google Classroom. You also get the PDF version so you can print out the handout on paper. You can either use this as two separate handouts for different occasions, or combine the two to make one double-sided hand out. The questions were

Make Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks accessible and fun to all your students! This single chapter mini-unit on Chapter 4 - Gonzalo - gives you everything you need to explore the inspiring world of Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks with your classes. You can teach it alone, or buy it with units for the rest of the book. The accessible handouts make enthralling teaching easy(ish)! Check out the preview to get an overview of the three-day lesson complete with lesson plans. Topics covered through use of the t

If your students need help with writing a paragraph, this will do it! The fifth in the series "Powerful Paragraphs", this activity is designed to boost your students' writing skills. It was designed for both ESL students, and native English speakers who need help structuring a powerful paragraph. The process is simple. Look at the image together and brainstorm some fresh vocab. Read the sample text, and teach the writing focus ( bringing together all the key parts of a paragraph: the topic, det

Where did Leona find her strength? How does Leona solve the problem of trash in the vacant lot?Make Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks accessible and fun to all your students! This single chapter mini-unit on Chapter 5 - Leona - gives you everything you need to explore the inspiring world of Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks with your classes. You can teach it alone, or buy it with units for the rest of the book. The accessible handouts make enthralling teaching easy(ish)! ESL scaffolding and support is buil

Make Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks accessible and fun to all your students! This single chapter mini-unit on Chapter 3 - Wendell - gives you everything you need to explore the inspiring world of Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks with your classes. You can teach it alone, or buy it with units for the rest of the book. The accessible handouts make enthralling teaching easy(ish)! Check out the preview to get an overview of the three-day lesson complete with lesson plans. Topics covered through use of the t

What happens when people work together in Seedfolks? What happens when they lie? Develop a theme for Seedfolks with your students...Make Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks accessible and fun to all your students! This double chapter mini-unit on Chapter 7 (Virgil) and Chapter 8 (Sae Young) gives you everything you need to explore the inspiring world of Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks with your classes. You can teach it alone, or buy it with units for the rest of the book. The accessible handouts make enthr

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 third in the series "Powerful Paragraphs", this activity is designed to boost your students' writing skills. It was designed for both English Language Learners, and native English speakers who need help structuring a powerful paragraph. The process is simple. Look at the image together and brainstorm

How will Sam help the community overcome the problems of the vacant lot?Make Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks accessible and fun to all your students! This single chapter mini-unit on Chapter 6 - Sam - gives you everything you need to explore the inspiring world of Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks with your classes. You can teach it alone, or buy it with units for the rest of the book. The accessible handouts make enthralling teaching easy(ish)! ESL scaffolding and support is built in, which is beneficial

Teaching prepositions should be super fun! This pack of activities is sure to captivate your students. Expect concentration as they vie to understand your description of art works and hilarity as they see how close (or far!) they got from the original image. And why not, widen their cultural horizons too, with some amazing art work from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art? Revisit the packet to reinforce common prepositions -- ideal for both English Language Learners and ELA cl

It's time to have fun with English! This pack contains 3 bundled sets of lessons and handouts of English idioms that are based around animals. It's so fun and meaningful for ELLs to explore the idiomatic extremes of English! Each pack contains a couple of core idioms - plus the chance to explore further ones, plus lesson plans. They work on paper or digital, and can be assigned (via TpT's Digital offering) on Google Classroom. Check out further details for the individual packs.

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 second in the series "Powerful Paragraphs", this activity is designed to boost your students' writing skills. It was designed for both English Language Learners, and native English speakers who need help structuring a powerful paragraph. The process is simple. Look at the image together and brainstor

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 first in the series "Powerful Paragraphs", this activity is designed to boost your students' writing skills. It was designed for both English Language Learners, and native English speakers who need help structuring a powerful paragraph. The process is simple. Look at the image together and brainstorm

If your students need help with writing a paragraph, this will do it! And this is a fun one! This eighth activity in the series "Powerful Paragraphs" should boost your students' writing skills, while having fun! It was designed for both English Language Learners, and native English speakers who need help structuring a powerful paragraph. The process is simple. Look at the image together and brainstorm some fresh vocab. Read the sample text, and teach the writing focus ( on the one hand, on the o

If your students need help with writing a paragraph, this will do it! This seventh activity in the series "Powerful Paragraphs" is designed to boost your students' writing skills. It was designed for both English Language Learners, and native English speakers who need help structuring a powerful paragraph. The process is simple. Look at the image together and brainstorm some fresh vocab. Read the sample text, and teach the writing focus ( forming detail sentences into a list, each sentence start

If your students need help with writing a paragraph, this will do it! This sixth activity in the series "Powerful Paragraphs" is designed to boost your students' writing skills. It was designed for both English Language Learners, and native English speakers who need help structuring a powerful paragraph. The process is simple. Look at the image together and brainstorm some fresh vocab. Read the sample text, and teach the writing focus ( forming detail sentences into a list, each sentence startin