Film English
The Conditioned
Discover the lovely story of Raimundo Arruda Sobrinho with your class. Over the course of the lesson, pupils practice descriptive writing, write short narratives, collaborate in small groups, watch a powerful short film about Raimundo,...
Nosapo
Writing Prompt: Write About a Photo
Practice descriptive writing with a prompt that includes a photograph. Writers craft the whole story of the single second caught in a photo using the provided questions to prompt their imaginations.
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Using Stories in the Classroom
In this using stories in the classroom worksheet, 7th graders read the Emperor's New Clothes, find 8 vocabulary words, write 3 short answer endings for the story and write 10 questions for the given answers.
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Film Festival: An ESL Lesson Plan to Get Students Talking About Movies
If your ESL pupils love talking about movies, here is an activity ideal for providing practice with both informational reading and elements of a story. Given fictional movie posters, they decipher the information and put it into a...
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Beginning Short Stories --
After reading a short story, learners answer 4 questions about a birthday party. This activity could be used for younger students, or with older learners as part of an ESL lesson.
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Nasreddin's Visitors: Recreating a Story
In this story recreation worksheet, students choose the correct sentence from 3 given to tell the story, using context clues to put the sentences in the proper sequence.
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Pizzazz!...Basket Stories
Students discuss the use of connectors and sequence words. They discuss common story endings and beginnings. Students brainstorm ideas for a creative story and compose a story for the rest of the class.
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ESL Reading Comprehension-Fantasy Story
In this ESL reading comprehension worksheet, students fill in blanks in a fantasy story, clicking a link to check answers and then watching a video of the story.
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Writing My Own Story
In this writing my own story worksheet, 2nd graders follow ten fact and opinion writing prompts to write a simple story about themselves.
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Cartoon Stories
Students write a cartoon story as a whole class, then in small groups and for homework as individuals. They practice asking and answering questions about location and time sequences.
British Council
Romeo and Juliet
An engaging video featuring William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is accompanied by six activities designed to reinforce vocabulary, story elements, and comprehension. Scholars match words to pictures, place events in sequential order,...
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The Perfect Gift
In this writing practice worksheet, students read the beginning of the story, "The Perfect Gift", and then finish the story in their own words on the lines provided.
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Sequencing
In this sequencing worksheet, students determine analyze pictures and determine order of paragraphs in a story. In this fill in the blank worksheet, students reorder six paragraphs.
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The Active Learner: "Dia's Story Cloth" Literature Guide
Students discuss pre-reading focus questions and complete a KWL chart. In this language arts instructional activity, students mark passages or words they are unsure of with post-it notes to discuss later and answer comprehension...
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What's the Story?
Elvis Presley's music is the hook for this ESL lesson. Learners listen to an Elvis song, discuss the vocabulary words, and answer questions. This is a great way to have your class discuss new vocabulary.
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Physical Science: The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Explore science through problem solving and learning how to solve the problem of the story "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." Young investigators will learn how to construct a model and design a solution. They will also keep records of their...
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Same News, Different Stories
Students compare the news angle, information sources and construction of different news reports about the death of Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. They analyze how various media outlets report on a different news story.
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Unit 10: Going Shopping Day 1: Buying School Supplies
Students, who are second language learners, develop a story about shopping. In this language development lesson, students brainstorm in their native language about the items they purchase at the beginning of the school year. They work...
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The Power of Words in Charlotte's Web
"How can a few good words save a pig's life?" Posed with this question, your ELD students explore E.B. White's Charlotte's Web in a meaningful, valuable way. By analyzing specific word choice from the book, especially the excerpts...
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Advertising in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Persuasive Texts
Beginning a persuasive writing unit with your middle schoolers? Approach it through something that persuades us all: advertising! Through studying video and print advertisement, your class will practice Common Core skills for reading...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Look at Us!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)
Start off your young English language learners with this packet of materials, which covers three weeks of instructions. After completing the unit, kids will have practiced the letters K through Z, read several story books, talked with...
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Young readers write alphabet letters. They review the alphabet and examine the relationship between letters and sounds. A final activity has each child sequence the story together.
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Language Practice
The simple instructional techniques described in this plan will help young readers learn and practice basic reading skills and strategies. Before reading, introduce your readers to the meaning of main character, setting, and plot. Then...
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