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ESL Newcomer Personal Narrative Writing - Entering & Emerging - Secondary ELL

By Curly Girl ELD Shop

Are you on the hunt for a writing project for your secondary ELL Newcomers that can be their first personal narrative? This helps your students write four paragraphs with support (organizer and checklist) and teaching/reviewing the writing process.

There are scaffolded supports for ENTERING and EMERGING students (Beginner and Intermediate ELLs).

With great graphics to show the personal narrative genre, visual prewriting, point of view, descriptive writing, past tense grammar practice and sentence frames, your Newcomers will be able to write their own personal narrative! 

Your Students Will:

  • Learn more vocabulary
  • Experience the writing process
  • Apply knowledge
  • Practice skills 
  • Have the opportunity to learn new skills
  • Work on developing writing skills
  • Have access to tools that will benefit them in writing

Help your ELL Newcomers tell their incredible stories!

What’s Included:

  • Follows the WIDA KEY USE: NARRATE objectives and formatting
  • Visual introduction to the genre of personal narrative writing
  • Options for different prompts with visual supports
  • Prewriting organizer
  • Descriptive Writing practice for places AND people
  • Point of View practice for 1st person
  • Transition words, vocabulary support and more!
  • Lesson learned examples and practice
  • Two pages of past tense activities
  • Chunking the story into 4 paragraphs
  • Final draft pages
  • Self Checklist with visuals for self editing
  • PDF Version for easy printing

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Yackeline G. wrote, “My students loved this activity. It was perfect for them because they are level 1 and 2. All the pictures, sentence frames and sentence starters are the scaffolding activity I was looking for. It helped them to write complete sentences that were going to be used to create their narrative stories. ”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Angela M. wrote, “This was great for my Newcomers. We finished it in about a week and I was thankful for the different scaffolds for my Entering and Emerging kiddos. Thanks.” 


This ESL writing resource will give them confidence and help them get through all the parts of a personal narrative. You don’t want to miss out on this resource. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

Check out these resources:

ESL Newcomer Spring Bundle

Access Test Prep Mega Bundle

$5.99

ESL MOY Middle of Year Assessments & Progress Monitoring Tools--Higher ELLs

By Curly Girl ELD Shop

Are you struggling to know what level your secondary ELL multilingual students are currently? Do you need a middle of the year assessment tool to track and monitor their growth throughout the year? This tool is a GREAT way to track and assess student skills and growth!

This resource will help teachers:

  • Assess students in the four domains (Listening, Speaking Reading and Writing)
  • Assess students with the same formatting and rigor of the ELPAC, ACCESS and TELPAS state tests for multilingual learners
  • Track data and analyze students' skill levels
  • Know how to score students with a comprehensive rubric

This resource includes:

  • 1 test for students (MOY)--**Different assessment than BOY and EOY**
  • A comprehensive rubric for teachers with answers keys
  • A tracking doc and progress monitoring tool
  • Links for audio recordings and directions
$5.99

ESL Newcomer Activity: Restaurant, Menu and Ordering Unit--2 weeks NO PREP

By Curly Girl ELD Shop

Are you searching for project based learning opportunities for your ESL ELL newcomers that are FUN? This Restaurant unit includes enough lessons to last you 2 weeks! Your multilingual ML students will have the chance to gain valuable knowledge about real life experiences and ordering, tipping, talking about money and food, 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
  • Have the opportunity to mature in life skills
  • CREATE THEIR OWN RESTAURANT MENU!!!
  • Use SLIFE/Newcomer supports to construct sentences, do listening activities, practice speaking and read!

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

What’s Included:

  • A teacher Pear Deck/Google Slides (65 slides) to support you and your Newcomer ELL students through all parts of the project AND teach about the restaurant and ordering handouts
  • Restaurant, Food, Ordering & Money Vocabulary
  • **BONUS 72 page SLIFE/NEWCOMER BEGINNER student workbook for your LOWER LEVEL Newcomers!**
  • Writing & speaking practice
  • Future tense
  • Tipping practice
  • A final project with templated student slides

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This Restaurant 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.

Check out these resources:

ESL Travel Project Bundle

Multilingual Classroom Monthly Newsletter - Editable

$7.99