Adult Education EFL - ESL - ELD Cultural Activities

Are you searching for an engaging resource for your secondary students to teach them about Native American Heritage Month? This engaging Google Slides/Pear Deck has everything you need for secondary students to learn all about Indigenous peoples and Native American Heritage from authentic indigenous voices and resources_._

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This resource is READY-TO-USE with plenty of activities to engage your secondary students. You will have everything you need to have an AMAZING unit.

What’s Included:

• 72 interactive Pear Deck/Google Slides
• The history and background, causes for change, youth impact, resources, world highlights and more
• Language supports for ELL ESL students and Special Education students
• Vocabulary slides and supports throughout
• G.O.A.T Note Catcher to highlight influential Native Americans
• 11 Writing Slides with sentence frames to support all learners
• 6 Engaging embedded videos that showcase indigenous voices and experiences 
• Link to find what tribal land you are living on
• Tons of maps, graphs, and numbers 
• A Virtual Field Trip to learn more about Native American heritage that has a Ed Puzzle link with questions throughout
• An article link and directions for a group research project
• NO PREP slides template for the group project that students will work together to create and present to classmates
• PDF Printable template for the group project if you prefer not to use computers
• Engaging secondary visuals that celebrate indigenous culture

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hanna Spencer (TeachShare Seller) wrote, “This resource was INCREDIBLE. We have a large population of Native American students at our school, and they said this was the first time that they had been celebrated in their education. It was great discussion topics for all of my students. I will use this again!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jenn A. wrote, “I honestly have not done a good job teaching Native American Heritage Month and I am so glad I bought this. It took us a few days and my students absolutely loved the videos and project. Thank you so much for making this!”

This lesson will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on this INFORMATIVE unit. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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Are you struggling to find secondary resources that challenge and engage your secondary Newcomers? This ESL Winter Newcomer slide deck is everything you need to teach your Newcomers about winter clothes, weather, food, holidays and traditions in a FUN and engaging way!

This product has TONS of bonus activities, vocabulary, engaging videos, supported writing, and a fun student project! As a teacher, all you have to do is click to the next slide! You can teach these slides over a few days OR use them as daily activities over a few weeks.

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Complete research
• Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This unit is PACKED with activities to engage your ESL students. You will have everything you need to have an AMAZING winter unit.

What’s Included:

• 75+ Interactive Google Slides/Pear Deck for winter weather, clothes, traditions, holidays and food
• Organized, professional slides with engaging graphics and images
• Three engaging videos to practice listening
• Virtual field trip to the MLK Memorial in Washington, DC
• Winter holiday "Snapshots" to teach all the winter holidays
• 15 slides for writing practice with language supports for Newcomers
• Vocabulary supports throughout
• Two formative writing assessment slides
• Bonus Activity: Winter holiday Google Doc Note Catcher
• Bonus Activity: PDF Vocabulary cards
• Bonus Activity: PDF Student Project checklist
• Bonus Activity: Student Project---Create a Winter Holiday---complete with templated student presentation Google Slides
• Tons of interactive slides to drag, draw, etc.
• Engaging visuals for secondary Newcomers!!
• And more!!!

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Megan A. wrote, “This is a great resource for newcomers - SO many activities to choose from and this has saved me so much time during our last week of classes leading up to the holiday break. THANK YOU! ”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Katie N.. wrote, “My high school Newcomers loved these interactive slides! Thank you for making great secondary Newcomer resources! The visuals and supports are AMAZING!” 

This winter bundle will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on the HUGE unit. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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This ESL ELD Winter Writing resource is everything your Newcomer secondary students need to improve their writing. Your students will love the engaging prompts and secondary visuals! This bundle focuses on getting your Newcomers writing using winter vocabulary, including foods, holidays, clothes, activities, and weather. As a teacher, you will have the option of an editable Google Doc or using the PDF printable version.

This product includes:

1. An editable Google Doc
2. 16 pages of writing activities
3. Tons of practice with the Present Continuous Tense
4. Vocabulary visuals on each page for winter foods, clothes, weather, holidays, activities
5. Engaging secondary prompts and visuals
6. Entering AND Emerging writing level scaffolds
7. Language supports for each activity
8. 5 Senses visuals
9. 6 Writing Task Cards
10. Vocabulary Print Page
11. PDF Link to print

Need more Winter Newcomer resources? See my Newcomer Winter Listening and Speaking Activity & Newcomer Winter Reading Passages

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Are you searching for project based learning opportunities for your ESL ELL students that are FUN? Your students will have the chance to research their origin countries and share their culture with the class. NO PREP

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Complete research
• Have the opportunity to learn more about themselves and their heritage

This unit is PACKED with activities to engage your ESL students. You will have everything you need to complete an AMAZING project.

What’s Included:

• 55 slides in a Google Slides presentation for the teacher to present the unit and guide pacing and activities---including inclusive graphics and interactive Pear Deck slides with tons of writing, videos, vocab and more!
• Google Slides & PDF Printable template for students to make a "Passion Board"
• An ode poem writing template for ELL students and Kobe Bryant's "Ode to Basketball" as the mentor poem 
• A research note catcher that has built in language supports and visuals
• A google slides presentation template for students to use to construct their presentations with built in sentence frames and titled slides
• A peer presentation note catcher so students are actively listening while watching presentations
• Engaging videos and visuals for secondary multilingual learners
• A fun flyer to invite other teachers and staff to your food and poem party!
• About My Family PDF 

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Theresa V. wrote, “I am currently using this activity with my beginning language learners at the middle school level. The slides are perfect for their level and they are having a great time researching their culture and they will be sharing what they learn with their classmates. The final projects look amazing! Thank you!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Evon S. wrote, “I am currently using this activity with my ESL students this summer. The project is perfect for their proficiency level. The activities are interesting and keep them engaged. I love this project and look forward to using this with my students in the fall! No prep work was needed! Thank you for this resource!! A++!”

This origin project will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on the EXCITING bundle. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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Need an engaging, fun, interactive resource for your ELL students to get them writing and learning about Veterans Day???

This is the perfect ESL ELD resource for multilingual learners to learn all about Veterans Day! As a teacher, you will get 42 interactive Pear Deck slides to guide you through the Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of the Veterans Day holiday! Your students will be able to practice tons of writing with sentence frames, see great visuals, have supported vocabulary, have an engaging slideshow, and get to do a virtual field trip to Arlington Cemetery & hear from a veteran on a Ted Talk.

This resource includes:

1. 42 Interactive Pear Deck Slides
2. 16 Printable Vocabulary cards
3. 2 Videos with supported responses
4. Tons of writing and sentence frame supports
5. The Who, What, When, Where, Why, How of Veterans Day
6. Engaging theme and visuals for secondary students
7. Activity to learn all 5 branches of the military

These ESL ELD Newcomer Posters will be a great addition to your classroom! Turn these PDF documents into fun anchor posters to hang in your room or print them into packets for your newcomers. This resource will help your newcomer students access key vocabulary for the Fall season in a fun and engaging way.

This resource comes with 5 posters:

1. Fall Holidays with pictures, dates, and name

2. Fall Weather with pictures and synonyms

3. Fall Clothes with pictures and articles for each

4. Fall Traditions with pictures and sentences

5. Fall Foods with pictures and labels

**Coming Soon----WINTER!**

Need a Newcomer resource with more scaffolding?

Having a hard time helping your Newcomers start writing?!!

This ESL ELD resource has everything you need to get your Newcomers writing! Your students will be supported and engage as they use this ESL resource to improve their content vocabulary and help them with sentence structure and transition words! This resources has writing supports for BOTH Entering & Emerging level Newcomers.

This resource includes:

1. 10 themed writing page activities for Entering & Emerging students with vocabulary and language supports

2. 4 Writing Task Cards with Visuals

3. Consistency and support with the present simple tense

4. Engaging cultural themes

5. A print page to find all the vocabulary in one place---fun to cut and mix up to let students create their own story with random vocabulary cards!

6. A PDF printable version with new and engaging formatting (page 16)

This product is perfect for whole group, small groups, or is something you can leave with a substitute when you're in a pinch!

*****This product is best paired with my Fall Vocabulary Posters

Need more Newcomer resources? Try my Newcomer Personal Narrative Resource!

Need a fun digital resource to keep your multilingual students talking and expanding their verbal responses?? This activity is FUN, engaging and helps students craft their responses with tons of language frames that get more complex as the slides go on! Students will discuss travel activities, destinations, preferences, clothes and more!

This product includes:

• 20 slides to teach the activity and with FUN and engaging THIS OR THAT scenarios for students to discuss!
• Travel themes (weather, clothes, activities, destinations etc)
• Secondary themes and topics
• Different language frames that get more complex as the slides go on!
• A great chance to learn about your students and create a classroom community!
• Students will justify their answer
• Fun and engaging Speaking slides for ELL multilingual students to use with a partner or the whole class!

Are you searching for project based learning opportunities for your ESL ELL SLIFE newcomers that are FUN? This clothes and fashion unit includes enough lessons to last you 3 weeks! Your multilingual ML students will have the chance to gain valuable knowledge about real life vocabulary all while working on developing skills such as budgeting, speaking, reading, writing, key grammar and much MORE!

This resource uses Google slides and PDFs and is NO PREP.

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Complete research/budgeting activity for buying clothes
• Have the opportunity to mature in life skills
• Create their own fashion show!

This unit is PACKED with activities to engage your ESL multilingual students. You will have everything you need to complete an AMAZING unit and project!

What’s Included:

• A teacher Pear Deck/Google Slides (115 slides) to support you and your Newcomer ELL students through all parts of the project AND teach about the clothes and fashion topics/themes
• A BONUS SLIFE PDF Workbook for your ENTERING/SLIFE STUDENTS!
• Pacing Guide broken down in weeks and days
• Video directions (for teachers)
• Pre-Assessment and Post-Assessment
• Clothes and Fashion Vocabulary
• Writing, Reading & Speaking practice
• "Should" and "Shouldn't" grammar practice
• Articles and Prepositions
• Phrasal Verbs
• Vocaroo Recordings Practice
• Reading Practice - 3 Different Passages
• FINAL PROJECT: Create your own Fashion Show with reused items from your house! (One of my favorite student projects!) ***PDF PRINTABLE VERSION and TEMPLATED GOOGLE SLIDES for STUDENTS TO FILL OUT AND PRESENT***

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This clothes and fashion unit will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on the EXCITING unit. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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ESL Travel Project Bundle

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Need an engaging, fun, interactive resource for your Newcomer ELL students to get them writing and learning about Veterans Day???

This is the perfect ESL ELD resource for Entering and Emerging ELL Newcomers to learn all about Veterans Day! As a teacher, you will get 45 interactive Pear Deck slides to guide you through all the vocabulary and facts about the Veterans Day holiday! Your students will be able to practice tons of writing with sentence frames, see great visuals, have supported vocabulary, have an engaging slideshow, and get to do a virtual field trip to Arlington Cemetery as well as get a printable of the Pledge of Allegiance!

This resource includes:

1. 45 Interactive Pear Deck Slides
2. 16 Printable Vocabulary Cards! (Verbs and Nouns)
3. 1 Virtual Field Trip YouTube video to the Arlington Cemetery
4. Tons of writing and sentence frame supports
5. Slides where students can drag & draw
6. 12 Vocabulary slides with practice, visuals and more!
7. Engaging theme and visuals for secondary students
8. Slides to learn all 5 branches of the military

This ESL ELD resource has everything your secondary Newcomer ELL students need to use their winter vocabulary and hear new stories around the winter theme! This product is perfect for whole group, small group, or you can leave it with a sub because of all the supports! Your secondary multilingual students will love these engaging activities!

This product includes:

1. 10 pages of Listening and Speaking Activities
2. Tons of visuals and pre teach vocabulary supports
3. Language frames to support speaking discussions
4. Speaking task cards
5. 3 linked stories to listen to
6. High level thinking questions
7. A PDF Link if you would like to print the activity

Look for more of my Newcomer Winter materials as well as the Newcomer Winter Bundle!

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