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Sentence Structure Game for Complete Beginners
Students play a card game with color coded words to create sentences that are correctly structured. They listen to a sentence dictated aloud and recreate the sentence using cards. They create sentences for partners to represent with cards.
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Ordering a Pizza
Learners role play ordering a pizza focusing on requests and vocabulary including numbers, money and food. They brainstorm food items and create the menu. Using virtual money, they order and fill out a spending worksheet.
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Using Pictures in the Classroom
Students review vocabulary by answering questions about an image, drawing the picture and taking notes. They compare their pictures and describe the differences.
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Christmas Board Game
Students play a Christmas themed board game to review holiday vocabulary. They practice their fluency by talking in small groups about whatever the board game square topic brings up for no less than two minutes (or they must move back 3...
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Animals and their Environment
Students cut out pictures of animals from magazines, and place animals on correct habitat chart.
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It's All About Word Play
Students engage in a lesson which focuses on word play through conversational language activities. The lesson helps build confidence and increase proficient language skills for Early English Language Learners.
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Paco's Similes
Young scholars engage in a activity which focuses on using conversational language and music to introduce the concept of similes, building language acquisition and helping create a positive attitude toward knowing and learning more than...
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Frantically Fragmented
Learners practice changing sentence fragments into complete sentences.
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Reap What You Sow with Writing
Students practice using graphic organizers to summarize The Little Red Hen and the Grain of Wheat.
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When I Grow Up - All By Myself
Learners listen to the book, All By Myself, then write sentences describing themselves now and when they are grown up. They create self-portraits of their current selves and what they be like in the future.
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Los Deportes (The Sports)
First graders, in groups, after learning the Spanish words for sports, make vocabulary cards to test each other.
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Law of the Land
First graders explore how the rules and responsibilities are different at school and at home.
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Greater Than and Less Than
Young scholars use cookies to construct sets, prepare greater than less than illustrations and solve simple greater than less than problems.
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Table Interpretation
Students solve problems using graphs to list and interpret data. Each student construct his or her own graph using art paper and markers. They be given a set of information to apply to their graphs and interpret their findings.
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Learning to Read a Map
First graders identify the map and globe symbols: Cardinal Directions; Compass Rose; Mountains; Rivers; Lakes; Towns; Roads.
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Learning to Read a Regional Map
Students locate the local community, surrounding communities and major geographic features of the SE Utah and the Four-Corners region on a map, after receiving direct instruction.
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COLORS
Students practice the vocabulary for the basic colors in English, recognize these words, and then use them appropriately to describe the colors of an object.
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TPR is a Valuable Tool!
Students, at the beginning ESL proficiency level, participate in Total Physical Response activities in order to learn the present continuous and past tense, sentence structure and word order in English.
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Find the Frog
Students, the advanced beginner to intermediate ESL level, use English in a science activity.
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Amazing Animals
Young scholars, in beginning and advanced beginning ESL levels, use English in an animal lesson.
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Will the Pumpkin Sink or Float?
Students participate in a sink or float activity using pumpkins.
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Signs of Spring
Learners identify the first signs of Spring. They track birds and butterflies on their journey North.
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Groundhog Day in Punsxutawney, PA
Students read the history of this tradition, examine Phil's predictions for the last 100 years.
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Who's Inside the Mitten?
Students read "The Mitten", by Jan Brett. They discuss vocabulary presented in the story and sequence significant plot events. They make masks to represent several of the characters and act out the story.