Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Intermediate Level
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,...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Academic Language: Everyone's "Second" Language
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Z: Learning About the Alphabet Book Genre
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision Dice [Pdf]
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With
In this lesson, young scholars will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Different Ways of Looking
In this lesson young scholars will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Little Toy Friend Poems
For this lesson students will create a poem from the viewpoint of a lost toy.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Poems of Condition
In this lesson the students will use the conditional "if" in order to guide their reader to become someone or something.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Who/what/where/when Game: Wild Weather Sentences
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Five Transition Adventure Planner
In this lesson, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases
Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Painting Places With Words
In this lesson students learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Animals (Animales)
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.
British Council
British Council Learn English Central: Listening and Watch
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...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
Other
Mystery Net Kids Mysteries: Mysteries by Kids Winners
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.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Self Study Idiom Quizzes
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Additive Transition Words
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.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Understanding Maps and Directions
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Carle's Crazy Critters
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...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Many Ways to Do Addition 1
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...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Food (La Comida): Listening/dialogs
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...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: House (La Casa): Pronunciation/sonidos
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...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Family (La Familia)
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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