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Discussing How Plants Grow
Study how plants grow with your English language learners with a cross-curricular lesson plan revolving around pumpkins. These activities provide opportunities to practice new scientific vocabulary while practicing skills such as...
ESL Holiday Lessons
Thanksgiving
Near Thanksgiving, learners complete activities surrounding the holiday. Some of the activities include a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, correct word choosing, multiple choice, sequencing, unscramble the sentences, write...
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International Day of Peace
To recognize the International Day of Peace, pupils complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill-in-the-blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking questions, take a...
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Guided Reading: Cold and Hot
Explore the text, Cold and Hot, with comprehension strategies for young readers. First, give them a purpose for reading: find out what the boy wore outside in the snow! Then have them use one-to-one matching and picture clues to...
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Safety: Street Safety
Clearly communicate to your learners how to stay safe while crossing the street and walking alongside traffic using this collection of 24 picture cards. It reviews basic actions like looking left and right before crossing,...
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National Love Our Children Day
Have your class discuss National Love Our Children Day worksheet. Learners complete activities, such as reading a passage, matching phrases, filling in the blanks, choosing the correct word, spelling, sequencing, asking questions,...
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Easter Sunday
All questions in this Easter Sunday worksheet involve the religious significance of the holiday. Students complete twelve activities such as phrase matching, fill in the blanks, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing...
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Santa Claus Around the World
Learn about the legend of Santa Claus around the world in ESL holiday plan. In it, learners explore the many ways that Santa Claus is depicted in cultures around the world. There are some excellent masters included in the plan that help...
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Amazing Animals: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 4)
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.
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What Is He Doing?
In this ESL verbs instructional activity, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people in different activities. Students select the correct answer from 4 choices that responds to the question, "What is he/she doing?"
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What Do They Like?
In this ESL question answering worksheet, students study 7 pictures that depict leisure activities. Students answer the questions next to each picture.
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Simple Present
In this ESL simple present verbs vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict different leisure activities. Students match these pictures with the verbs that describe them.
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Pumpkin Science
Students investigate how plants grow by analyzing pumpkins. In this agricultural lesson, students read The Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Steven Kroll, and draw pictures of a pumpkin in each of its growing stages. Students measure and dissect...
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What Do You Want To Do? #2
In this ESL weather activity, students will focus on words associated with activities. Students will complete 9 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct terminology and vocabulary...
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Let it Snow!
Students participate in various activities in the snow to determine how snow affects our lives, what we wear in the snow, and what activities we can enjoy in the snow. Lesson includes many resource links.
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Countries of the World
Students in a ESL classroom examine a world map and study the various countries' names. The study the cultures of selected countries and create a vocabulary list. Finally they label an empty map with the countries' names and a short...
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Classroom Instructions
In this ESL following instructions worksheet, students will focus on classroom activities. Students will complete 5 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct terminology and...
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Using Songs in the LCTL Classroom
Students in a beginning to intermediate foreign language/ESL classroom complete a variety of activities involving music and lyrics that are designed to enhance their listening and vocabulary skills. They practice grammar and making...
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House Plan
In this ESL worksheet, students will learn house related vocabulary and create sentences about how they would arrange furniture in a home. Sample lesson ideas are included.
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What Do You Do in Your Spare Time?
In this ESL leisure time vocabulary worksheet, students examine 10 pictures that show people in leisure time activities. From 4 choices, students select the sentence that is grammatically correct and describes the picture.
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Say and Spell CVC Words Board Game
ESL students practice saying and spelling consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. In this spelling lesson, students play a board game that requires them to look at a picture and say then spell the word pictured. The first student to the...
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Guessing Game
Students participate in a set of activities designed to help ESL students become familiar with the English language through description, group work, oral reading, and question/answer sessions.
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At the Park
Students in ESL classes read and interpret sentences about the park. They change the verb tense of the sentences and practice writing their own sentences. Student pairs read/perform dialogues in front of the class.
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Describing People: Appearance
For this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students discover or review terms that describe the appearance of people and then complete 4 multi-step activities using the terms appropriately.