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Reintroduce /O/
Students study letters. In this letter identification lesson, students practice recognizing and making the sound for the letter "o." They work as a class to actively participate in various drills the teacher takes them through. This...
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Reintroduce /D/
Students study letters. In this letter identification lesson, students practice recognizing and pronouncing the letter "d." They work as a group to actively participate in various drills the teacher leads them through. This lesson...
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Introduce /U/
Students study letters. In this letter identification lesson plan, students practice recognizing the letter "u" and pronouncing the sound it makes. They participate in various group activities practicing the use of the letter "u." This...
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Reintroduce /B/
Students study letters. In this letter identification instructional activity, students practice identifying and pronouncing the letter "b." They actively participate as a group in various drills the teacher leads them through. This...
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Introducing...Me
Students practice rephrasing techniques to ask and answer questions in order to maintain conversational exchanges. Students create scripts about themselves to use as conversation starters. This lesson plan is intended for students...
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Various Questions
A great exercise for English language learners or youngsters learning how to question, this resource provides practice using pictures to recognize words. After the class has completed the fill-in-the-blank portion, have them walk around...
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Pronunciation - IPA Symbol Card Game
Students utilize the IPA system to help them improve their pronunciation. They utilize a set of IPA cards that are imbedded in this plan. They circulate around the room, exchanging cards with their peers and practicing the pronunciations...
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Immigration Research Project
Students formulate guiding questions to use as an aid for research and then use the guiding questions worksheet to help gather information necessary for meeting all criteria for completing the project. They then work together to collect...
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ESL: Beginning Vocabulary Matching
Beginning English Learners match 10 line-drawn pictures of basic nouns with their names, such as kite, airplane, goat, and igloo. Indefinite articles are included, so this exercise also provides reinforcement for the a/an rule.
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ESL: Classmates Survey
Get your beginning English Learners moving with this class survey. They ask each other the 8 questions provided to find out "How many of your classmates..." Good practice for asking questions that start with"Do you..." including "make...
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The Raven
After a close reading of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" individuals copy the rhythm and rhyme scheme and rewrite the final stanzas of the poem.
Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Two Traditional Korean Songs
"Arirang," the most popular Koeran folk song, and "Doraji" are featured in a resource that includes suggestions for how to incorporate these hauntingly beautiful songs into your curriculum.
Global Oneness Project
Recording a Dying Langauge
Is there value in preserving indigenous languages that are almost extinct? That's the question posed to viewers of a short film about the attempt of one Native American woman who is creating a dictionary for Wakchumni, the language of...
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Color Match/Vocabulary
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students match ten color phrases to the matching pictures. Directions are given in both English and Spanish. The instructional activity is intended for use with English language learners.
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What's This
In this grammar worksheet, learners match ten pictures to their names. Each picture is of an item. The worksheet is intended for use with English language learners.
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Food2
In this vocabulary activity, students match names of ten foods with their pictures. The activity is intended for use with English language learners.
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My Classroom
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match ten pictures of classroom items to their names. Each illustration is a drawing. Some are black and white, others are in color. The worksheet is intended for use with English language learners.
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What Colour Is...?
In this colors worksheet, students match the color of a picture with the word for that color. For instance, a picture of a blue shirt is matched with the word blue. This worksheet is intended to be used with English language learners.
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Match the Fashion
In this vocabulary activity, students match the pictures of ten clothing items with their names. The activity is intended to be used with English language learners.
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Classroom Objects
In this vocabulary worksheet, students identify the pictures of eight classroom objects. The worksheet includes an illustration of the object and the question "What's this?" They write the word that finishes the answer, "It's a..." This...
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I Want To...
In this vocabulary worksheet, English language learners ask a classmate a series of six questions. Questions begin with the phrase "What do you want to." Students write their classmates responses on the lines provided.
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Balloon Blending
Young scholars practice blending letters and vowel sounds so that they run together smoothly, view clown poster, blend letters on balloons to form words with different letters, and read aloud story, A Cat Nap, to practice pronunciation.
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What's Special About Nonfiction?
Students examine the difference between nonfiction and fictional writing. They identify the characteristics of nonfiction literature and examine how a nonfiction textbook organizes information.
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Prepositions
Elementary schoolers view and study ten pictures of the location of a ball adjacent to a box. They decide where the ball is and match it to its appropriate preposition on the right. A good language arts lesson!