EFL - ESL - ELD Thematic Unit Plans

Ten story starters themed for Easter! Includes word bank and lines on each handout for younger writing students. Easter themed words include: Easter, bunny, chick, duck, eggs, and many more... Use with whole group, small group, or individually. Excellent for creative writing and vocabulary enhancement. Meets CCSS and can be used in peer workshopping classes. Great writing gifts to make and give for Easter!

Halloween Sentence Stems

Use these 25 Halloween sentence stems / starters to get your students speaking or use them as writing prompts. These sentence starters fun at any level or age. Use these with primary or middle school students. I've included four completely different ways to use this resource. See the preview for more details.

This resource is included in my Halloween Bundle

Includes:

25 cards to print, cut out, and laminate: Use these no-prep speaking prompts year after year. This is a great way to enhance your program by practicing oral production during the month of October.

25 half page worksheets to use as writing prompts: These are meant for primary students as they include space to draw a picture and there is only space for a short paragraph. These are perfect for literacy centers.

25 full page worksheets to use as writing prompts: These are meant for middle school students. These prompts are a helpful way to "get started" when looking for something to write about.

25 sentence stem strips: Print and cut out the strips, punch holes in the spaces provided, and hook them together with a ring. Students can read the sentence stems and complete the sentences by using words they have learned to form the remainder of their sentences. Provide students with a set of stem strips that they can work on at their own pace. Unlike the writing prompts, these strips are meant to elicit short answers.

Other ways you can use these sentence stems:

✎ Daily 5 rotations

✎ Use in writing centres

✎ Fast finishers

✎ Tutoring sessions

✎ No prep sub materials

✎ Morning work / morning meetings

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Robot Emotion Flashcards!

Emotions are in English & Spanish

Title cards included - "Today I Feel" & "Emotions"

Color and black and white included.

Are you searching for project based learning opportunities for your ESL ELL newcomer students that are FUN? Your students will have the chance to research their origin countries and share their culture with the class.

Perfect for the beginning of the year to get to know your students, celebrate their language and who they are and create a strong classroom community and identity with you and your multilingual Newcomer students!

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

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:

• 2-3 WEEKS OF LESSONS!!!!!
• 64 Teacher Google Slides to help guide the unit EVERY STEP of the way (also all supplemental activities are linked on Slide 1)
• Pear Deck embedded slides (you can use without as well) for writing, student drawing, engagement, etc.
• Templated prewriting and formatting for I AM FROM poems
• Student examples of I Am From Poems
• EXTRA student workbook (28 pages) for SLIFE/Beginner Newcomer students that has extra vocabulary support, writing activities and listening and speaking activities!
• Present tense support for describing people (physical traits + personality traits)
• Vocabulary printables and slides for students to share their passions and interests
• Family vocabulary printables and slides + TONS of activity sheets for students to learn and tell all about their families!
• Descriptive writing support and printables for students to learn and practice descriptive writing
• Description of I Am From Poems and step by step guide to support newcomers on writing
• Directions on how students can RECORD their poems in their NATIVE LANGUAGE and download a QR Code for a final gallery walk of the I AM FROM poems!!!

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sarah A. wrote, “LOVED this project! Not only was it great in terms of vocabulary and describing people and things, the I Am From poems turned out SO WELL! I ended up inviting the admin to come to our gallery show at the end and they loved seeing the poems and hearing the poems in another language. It made my students so happy to write about their backgrounds and share their multilingual superpowers! Thank you!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Laura G. wrote, “Great resource. Thanks for the help. my students enjoyed this.” 

This origin project 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

Multilingual Classroom Monthly Newsletter - Editable

Engage students in learning about narrative writing and cultures and diversity. Create Road of Life Maps (many students' examples included) then storytell one event using narrative characteristics. This complete Common Core ELA lesson plan includes: Objectives Benefits Background Knowledge Road of Life Map (directions, teacher & students' examples) Scoring Rubrics Grading Information Students' narrative essays (peer workshoppings & maps) Media resources for elementary and secondary Literature resources for elementary and secondary Writing assignment for narrative Peer Workshopping practice slides Theory and Research information Quotes A great beginning of school year assignment to learn about students and to let students learn about you, as well as to introduce writing process, help students learn how to put final packets together, and can be used as a diagnostic writing. Fun, educational, and encourages storytelling and sharing along with building safe communities of writers in language arts classrooms.

Happy Halloween Games and Activities BUNDLE - English - ESL

This is a bundle of games and activities for the month of October when you want to have some fun with Halloween. This bundle is 30% off.

Don't need everything in the bundle? Would you like to add non-related resources to your purchase? That's ok, you can still get 20% off your purchase of $20 or more with my Build Your Own English Bundle option! No sale items or other already discounted bundles can be included.

LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

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Woodland Animal Emotion Flashcards!

Emotions are in English & Spanish

Title cards included - "Today I Feel" & "Emotions"

Color and black and white included.

This engaging ESL ELD winter resource will get your ELL students and multilingual learners excited to speak and write! With high interest topics and questions, your students will love doing this activity in partners, whole group, or in small groups.

This resource includes:

1. 12 Speaking and Writing prompts
2. High interest thematic winter topics for student engagement
3. 8 cards with sentence frames for constructed responses (claim and counterargument)
4. Visuals to support all learning levels

Dinosaur Emotions Flashcards!

Emotions are in English & Spanish

Title cards included - "Today I Feel" & "Emotions"

All cards are in color and black and white.

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.

Check out these resources:

ESL Travel Project Bundle

Multilingual Classroom Monthly Newsletter - Editable

Thankful Turkey Craft.

Have students write what they are thankful for on each feather, glue to the back of the turkey!

Includes English & Spanish Turkey Bodies "I am thankful for:"

Includes feathers in 3 colors

Includes examples

Use this slideshow to let your ELL students present their scary stories with a fun backdrop! This also goes over student expectations while presenting as well as sentence frames for peer feedback.