Picture Perfect

Transition young English language learners back to school with this set of vocabulary cards. Addressing common classroom vocabulary like teacher, backpack, and crayons, this set of cards is perfect for developing the language children...

Do your language arts students love to draw? Use this lesson to reinforce poetic techniques with illustration. After drawing what they think poem would look like with no words, middle and high schoolers work on several different...

Readers of Paradise Lost draw parallels between Milton's tale and Gene Zion's Harry the Dirty Dog, an illustrated children's book.

Well into Catcher in the Rye, when things are looking bleak and your readers may be needing some levity, read the picture book The Perfect Square by Michael Hall. Then use the Venn diagram included to compare how Holden Caulfield and the...

Young scholars will create a fictional narrative based on the cover of a picture book provided by the teacher. In this narrative writing lesson students incorporate all story elements and use strategies to engage the reader.

A pack of hungry wolves surround a panicked buffalo – who will come out alive? Have your young writers narrate this nature scene, taking the point of view of either a wolf or the buffalo. Perfect for a narrative writing unit or for your...

In this vocabulary skills instructional activity, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate words to complete the sentences that express the present perfect and past perfect tenses.

Children's picture books are a great resource for identifying and modeling components of narrative writing. A fun and interactive lesson about elements of a story prompts your class to use descriptive language as they analyze characters...

Students demonstrate the eight parts of speech with personal photographs. In this parts of speech lesson, students take photographs and label them with the appropriate concrete example of each part of speech. 

In this ESL present perfect simple worksheet, students use a drop down list to tell the tense of given words/phrases, then fill in blanks to describe a picture, use verbs in present perfect simple tense.