If you are working on colors, printing names, introductions, and other projects in the first few weeks of school, use a series of activities designed for English language learners. It includes cute ways to wish your little ones...

Start your day off right with this presentation about breakfast. Full of words about breakfast, including "bacon and eggs," "pancakes," and "oatmeal," the slides also feature explanatory pictures for your students to identify. Short...

Give new meaning to the phrase "in your own backyard" with this presentation. Vocabulary words about backyards, such as lawn mower, patio, and birdbath will help your ESL students identify the everyday items around their house. Use this...

What do you typically do in the morning? Phrases like wake up in the morning, take a shower, eat breakfast, and put on your shoes make up this ESL presentation, which works as a good bridge between vocabulary words and forming longer...

With words like silverware, measuring cups, and pressure cooker, this presentation will help your ESL learners find their way around the kitchen. Each slide features one item found in a kitchen, as well as an explanatory illustration,...

Include this presentation in your social studies lesson about world flags. Each slide contains a vivid illustration of a flag and its country. The slides are organized in alphabetical order. Designed for an ESL class, the slides would...

Thanksgiving is a cherished tradition in the United States and Canada. Introduce the beginnings of the Thanksgiving celebration with a resource that features reading comprehension activities, vocabulary exercises, and a short...

Take a walk through a vegetable garden with this ESL presentation, which focuses on vegetable words and pictures. Carrots, chili peppers, onions, and beans are just a few of the terms that will help your English learners review their...

Take a walk through the bright, fragrant meadows of springtime with this ESL presentation. Vibrant pictures of flowers and rainbows will be sure to get your English learners' attention, and the brief explanations on each slide are easy...

If readers don't understand key portions of a text, it may seem more like a foe than a friend. The second resource in a series of three ESL lessons designed to accompany the texts in Nature: Friend or Foe makes the texts easier to...

Students visually represent information by using magnetic letters of the alphabet and understand and use technical vocabulary. They are able to repeat the name of the letters and sing the "Alphabet Song". They show what they have learned...

Teach your ELD class about different kinds of homes with this presentation. Vocabulary words such as balcony, carport, and elevator can help English learners identify items in an apartment building. Use this slideshow to talk about city...

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...

Quiz your English learners on their food vocabulary with this presentation, which focuses on different types of fruit. Common fruits such as apples and oranges join less well-known fruits like mangos and pomegranates in the slideshow....

Introduce language learners to class behavior expectations, and each other, with activities that include greeting and name games, conducting a class survey, and creating a classroom rules poster.

Pairs of common opposite words help ESL learners understand basic antonyms. Words include asleep/awake, short/tall, and young/old. They are accompanied by pictures that are easy to understand. The last slide prompts students to find the...

Enjoy the thrill of the movies with this ESL activity! Not only can learners talk about their favorite films, but in creating riddles about their chosen movies, they can practice the skills of context clues and deductive reasoning. This...

This packet, the second in the series of support materials for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on amazing animals, contains exercises and activities designed for the ESL/ELD classroom.

ESL/ELD learners are provided extra support with the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on silly stories by this packet of activities, exercises, and practice sets.

Tiny pictures of buildings found around town can be matched with their names in this exercise for beginning English Learners. Indefinite articles are included with vocabulary; nice way to reinforce the "a/an" rule. Pictures are quite...

Match drawings of basic body parts with their names. A handy tool for teachers of beginning ELLs.

Beginning English learners practice describing the weather with help from eight picture clues. Questions are phrased like "How's the weather?" and "What's the weather like?" Tinker with the formatting to make it all fit on one page...