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Vocabulary Building
A fabulous language arts lesson has readers focus on the vocabulary in the key words, expand and build new vocabulary, and practice three grammar concepts. They recognize key words as they relate to communicating at work. Pupils build...
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Animal Body Parts for ESL
Students describe what animals look like. In this ESL vocabulary development lesson plan, students complete worksheets and use images to help them describe what animals look like.
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Baseball Vocabulary Game: ESL Beginners
The most valuable part of this lesson plan is the instructions to "Vocabulary Baseball," which can be applied to any vocabulary or key terms list. The game uses word boxes and the autobiography of Roberto Clemente, which the lesson plan...
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Exercise: ESL Lesson
Save yourself a trip to the gym with this ESL presentation about exercise. Vocabulary words like jogging, yoga, and bicycling, as well as pictures that explain each activity, will help your English learners understand the common terms...
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Washing Clothes: Beginning ESL Lesson
Your English learners will be the champions of the laundry room with this presentation about washing clothes. Phrases such as "fold the laundry" and "hang up the clothes," as well as vocabulary like laundromat and washing machine will...
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International Dance Day: Reading and Activities for ELD
A brief passage about International Dance Day, April 29, is accompanied by an array of language activities based in sound ELD practice: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group...
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Nose - ESL Activity
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students trace the word nose three times on the lines using the yellow dot pattern as guides. Students then write the word on their own continuing to use the yellow dots as a guide.
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Two Eyes - ESL
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students trace the sentence 'I have two eyes' using the yellow dot pattern as guides. Students then write the sentence on their own.
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Earth in the Solar System
A three-week unit designed to be completed in an elementary level, dual-language immersion classroom, this resource includes several lessons intended to introduce young learners to the solar system, the Earth and how the Earth compares...
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Person to Person: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 4)
Help language learners understand words and cultural concepts. The second installment in a series of three language development lessons designed to accompany Theme 4: Person to Person helps bridge the gap for language learners by...
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Spring: Beginning ESL Lesson
With vivid illustrations and clear text, this presentation is a great way to introduce a unit about seasons or seasonal activities to your beginning ESL class. Phrases such as swing on a swing, cut the grass, and have a garage sale help...
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Summer: Beginning ESL Lesson
Soak up the sunshine in this ESL presentation about summer and words associated with summer. Clear, bright illustrations help to define words and phrases like "sleep in a hammock" and "build a sandcastle." Helpful for a unit about...
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ESL: When Was The Last Time ...
In this ESL worksheet, students fill out a chart with activities they have not done for a long time, and identify when they did take part in these activities. Students share their charts with classmates in conversation.
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ESL Holiday Activity-New Year's Day
In this ESL holiday worksheet, students read 2 paragraphs about New Year's Day, then complete matching, fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, event ordering, scrambled sentence, and questioning and writing activities related to the article.
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ESL Holiday Activity-Labor Day
Several resources are provided through this website about Labor Day. Elementary learners read two short paragraphs, then complete matching, fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, spelling word scramble, ordering events, and survey...
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ESL Vocabulary and Spelling: Feelings
In these English Language vocabulary worksheets, students use the pictures to first trace, then print, and finally identify and write the feeling words.
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Beginning Short Stories - "What Do We Have to Eat?"
After reading two short stories, learners identify vocabulary associated with food and eating. This activity with 5 questions could be used as a reading comprehension and vocabulary practice for younger students or an ESL learning...
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Beginning Daily Activities Unit
Begin each day with a warm-up that has ELLs focusing their minds on a skill that will be taught that day. Focusing on verbs, each daily lesson reinforces study and self-management skills, helps learners become proficient in working with...
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We Play Music
Do you like music? Have your youngsters read We Play Music, practicing select reading strategies, like using picture clues to determine new words. Then, after their first independent read, have them re-read the story to a partner,...
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ESL-Text and Vocabulary Activity
For this ESL text/vocabulary worksheet, students fill in blanks with given words to complete a short text, find those words in a word search puzzle and listen to words and match what they hear to the written name.
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ESL Vocabulary and Writing: Places
In this English Language vocabulary and writing worksheets, students use the pictures to identify the places vocabulary terms. Students then a sentence for each vocabulary word.
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ESL Vocabulary and Writing: Fruit
In these English Language vocabulary and writing worksheets, learners use the pictures of the fruit to identify the fruit vocabulary words and then write sentences about each word.
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ESL: Multiple Choice Vocabulary
For this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students fill in blanks to correctly complete sentences, choosing from 4 possible answers. Page has links to additional activities.
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ESL Vocabulary Lesson Plan - Opposites for Beginners
Students work on vocabulary lesson plans.