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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Intermediate Level

For Students 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish-speaking students. It is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension,...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Academic Language: Everyone's "Second" Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Being able to speak English fluently does not guarantee that a student will be able to use language effectively in academic settings. Fluency must be combined with higher order thinking skills to create an "academic language," which...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Z: Learning About the Alphabet Book Genre

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for at least seven 20- to 30-minute sessions about alphabet books. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Dice [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Revision can be a difficult process for students. With a roll of the dice, students are reminded of the steps they can take to improve their writing. Includes templates for four types of dice that focus on ideas, organization, voice, and...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, young scholars will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Different Ways of Looking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson young scholars will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Little Toy Friend Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson students will create a poem from the viewpoint of a lost toy.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Poems of Condition

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson the students will use the conditional "if" in order to guide their reader to become someone or something.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Who/what/where/when Game: Wild Weather Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson plan. Brave Irene, written by William Steig, is used as the mentor text of this lesson plan. Students will develop...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Five Transition Adventure Planner

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Painting Places With Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Animals (Animales)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extensive site for teaching Spanish-speaking ELL. The theme of this unit is animals. Exercise follows short reading. Instructions are in Spanish; exercise in English.
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British Council

British Council Learn English Central: Listening and Watch

For Students 9th - 10th
A selection of 20 or so mp3 listening files, with audioscripts, that you can download and play on your computer or portable player. Each comes with a follow-up activity -- these can vary, e.g., an offline writing assignment, online...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
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Other

Mystery Net Kids Mysteries: Mysteries by Kids Winners

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
This site offers links to the winning stories from MysteryNet's mini-mystery writing contest for kids. They provide good reading practice and/or models for story writing activities.
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Self Study Idiom Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Vast array of quizzes and self-study exercises based on idioms and idiomatic expressions, categorized in a variety of ways (beginning with A, B, etc., by keyword, or by association with other groupings). Great practice for the ELL/ESL...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Additive Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Six slides explaining how to use additive transition words to connect, or add, one idea to another to increase fluency. Examples are provided in a chart and within various types of sentences.
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Understanding Maps and Directions

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive site for teaching Spanish speaking ELL. The theme of this unit is the directions - An "e-mail" is presented, giving directions to a house party - Interactive exercise follows, asking comprehension questions - A guided writing...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Carle's Crazy Critters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This instructional activity provides learners with the opportunity to read books aloud to the class. Students also spend time researching Eric Carle and his practices as a writer and illustrator. Finally, learners become writers and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Many Ways to Do Addition 1

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will learn that there are multiple ways to solve math problems, such as drawing a picture, using counters, using fingers, using a number line, and memorizing facts. The teacher writes a simple addition problem on the whiteboard...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Food (La Comida): Listening/dialogs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELL. In this section, students listen to a couple of short audio clip dialogs in English and then answer interactive comprehension questions. Several activities provided - instructions in...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: House (La Casa): Pronunciation/sonidos

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - contrasts "b" and "v" sounds as in "very/bury." Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Family (La Familia)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - contrasts short "e" and "i" sounds as in "bill/bell". Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a...

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