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What's This
In this grammar worksheet, students 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 worksheet, learners match names of ten foods with their pictures. 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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My Classroom
In this vocabulary activity, 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 activity is intended for use with English language learners.
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Match the Fashion
For this vocabulary worksheet, students match the pictures of ten clothing items with their names. The worksheet 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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Color Match/Vocabulary
For this vocabulary worksheet, students match ten color phrases to the matching pictures. Directions are given in both English and Spanish. The worksheet is intended for use with English language learners.
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I Want To...
In this vocabulary learning exercise, 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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Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
Over the course of five periods, scholars create a poetry portfolio. They begin with a reading of the poem, Firefly. With a focus on vocabulary, learners reread the poem then look for sight words and other skills.
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Author’s Perspective
Gradually build understanding of author's point of view through a scaffolded set of exercises. Moving from direct instruction, to collaborative work, and eventually to independent practice, these steps will assist your class in grasping...
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How to Write a Memoir
Who are we and what shapes our identities? Seventh graders work to answer this question as they learn how to write a memoir. Full of non-print resources and supplemental texts that range from fiction to non-fiction, scholars write their...
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Flipped: Problematic Situations
An activity based on the young adult novel Flipped, groups work to make the same difficult decision a character in the novel faces. Each group is given the same scenario about caring for a mentally disabled brother personally or putting...
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Character in a Box
Partners choose, research, and analyze fictional or historical characters and design character life boxes to represent them. They also compose a rhyme royal, which they understand inductively by deconstructing examples. Based largely on...
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The Devil’s Arithmetic: QAR Strategy
Asking questions about the text is an important way for kids to become critical readers. Use a QAR activity based on The Devil's Arithmetic to help learners decipher between questions that are right there, between the author and the...
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The Metamorphosis: Herber Readiness Activity
Delve into Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis before opening the book with a lesson on literary themes. High schoolers engage in a word association activity before reading a list of statements based on the book's themes. Then, in groups,...
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Vocabulary Bingo: Fever 1793
Prior to reading Fever 1793, class members are introduced to vocabulary drawn from the text of Laurie Halse Anderson's novel with a bingo-style activity. The vocabulary list, a teacher copy with definitions, and the bingo template are...
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Recycled Greeting Cards
Students create greeting cards from recycled products. They research how paper is recyled and the history of paper. They write free verse and create their own recycled paper. They use Microsoft Word to write their final drafts of verse...
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Word and Picture Match-- Verbs
The focus of this ESL worksheet is on matching verbs and pictures. Students analyze seveb pictures that depict people engaged in various activities, and match each picture to the verb that describes it.
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The Museum as a Time Capsule: Mongolian Example
High schoolers make defensible inferences based on observation of perceived evidence. They use observation and inference to recognize the validity of alternative approaches or solutions.
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Rhyming
Students comprehend the basic language concept. They create as a class the word family for hat. They are told that they are going to see how many words they can come up with that rhyme with hat. Students are asked to come up with a...
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My Worksheet
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match nine common classroom commands to their illustrations. The worksheet is intended for use with English language learners.
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Food
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students match names of ten food items with their names. The learning exercise is intended for use with English language learners.
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People
In this language acquisition activity, students select the best answer from four choices to complete each sentence. Sentences describe pictures that are included beside each. There are four possible predicate phrases for students to...
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Memory Test
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match ten pictures with their names. Seven of the terms are body parts, two are animals, and the tenth term is hat. This worksheet is intended to be used with English language learners.