Autumn Cultural Activities

Are struggling to find secondary resources that challenge and engage your secondary Newcomers? This ESL ELD Fall Newcomer slide deck is everything you need to teach your secondary Newcomers (Entering and Emerging levels) about fall 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!

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 resource is PACKED with activities to engage your ESL students. You will have everything you need to have an AMAZING fall lesson.

What’s Included:

• 100 Interactive Google Slides/Pear Deck for fall weather, clothes, traditions, holidays and food
• Organized, professional slides with engaging graphics and images
• Five engaging videos to practice listening
• Focus on the Present Simple Tense
• Virtual field trip to the Macy's Day Parade in NYC
• Fall holiday "Snapshots" to teach all the spring holidays (Mexican Independence Day, Diwali, Halloween, Day of the Dead, Veteran's Day & Thanksgiving)
• 20 slides for writing practice with language supports for Newcomers
• Vocabulary supports throughout
• Two formative writing assessment slides
• Bonus Activity: Fall holiday Google Doc Note Catcher
• Bonus Activity: PDF Present Simple Tense Practice
• Bonus Activity: Transition word anchor chart 
• Bonus Activity: PDF Student Project checklist
• Bonus Activity: Student Project---How To Project---complete with templated student presentation Google Slides so students can teach how to do something to the class!
• Tons of interactive slides to drag, draw, etc.
• Engaging visuals for secondary Newcomers!!
• And more!!!

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This fall resource will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on these EXCITING activities. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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Do you need engaging Halloween and autumn-themed emergency sub plans? Then download this Bundle Emergency Sub Plans Middle School Social Studies and ELA Holidays!

• Halloween, Day of Dead, and Samhain WebQuest: Students will learn about the history, traditions, and customs of Halloween, Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos), and Samhain
• Autumn Holidays Around the World WebQuest: Students will learn about the history, traditions, and customs of a variety of autumn holidays around the world, including Diwali, Guy Fawkes Day, Homowo, El Señor de los Milagros, Loy Krathong, Chuseok, Día de los Muertos, and more!
• Monsters Around the World WebQuest: This is all students need to learn about the rakshasa, kongamato, Yule Lads, chupacabra, wendigo, ifrit, and more!

Students will finish these activities with a deeper understanding of the topics. Some research questions will be easily located, while others will require deeper exploration to find the correct answers.

When you purchase this scavenger hunt resource, you'll receive the activity in both print and digital formats. The research questions provided allow for scaffolded instruction that can be completed individually, in pairs, or in small groups. You can even use this lesson as a fun team-building or gamified activity. Your students are guaranteed to learn more with this high-quality, no-prep resource!

➟ Ways to Use This Resource:

• Full Class Activity
• Small Group Instruction
• Homework
• Extra Credit
• Substitute Plan
• ... and more!

➟ This Resource Includes:

• 3 Multi-step Question WebQuests (Print + Digital Formats)
• Reflection Questions
• Instructions & Answer Key
• Live links are provided on the last page of the resource
• Website evaluation form (to assess the appropriateness of websites as a few of the questions direct students to locate their own website).
• Terms of Use

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