Elementary School Other (Specialty) Assessment

Do you need a test prep resource that will get your secondary ELL multilingual students completely prepared for the formatting and the reading, writing, listening and speaking demands of the ACCESS test? These 20 Warm Ups/Mini lessons are everything you need to prepare your TIER B/C students for ACCESS!

Your students will feel more confident taking ACCESS after completing these activities that focus on writing.

Your Students Will:

• Develop strategies
• Practice the WIDA KEY USE: INFORM
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice with academic content language
• Work on developing test taking skills
• Complete mini lessons and warm ups
• Have the opportunity to expand knowledge

This resource is LOADED with activities to help your students prepare for the ACCESS.

What’s Included:

• 170 test prep slides written in the same formatting, structure and rigor of the ACCESS test
• Examples from "Nina" and "Elena" to mimic ACCESS
• Students will read, write, move items to categorize, speak, listen and more! 
• 20 Warm Ups/Mini Lessons that focus on Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking in the four content areas (Social Studies, Math, Language Arts and Science)
• Voice recordings, visuals, graphics, multiple choice and writing assessments
• Digital AND Printable (Google Doc + PDF) STUDENT NOTE CATCHER
• Tier B/C rigor and leveled questions
• Tons of exposure and practice with academic content language
• Vocaroo link for students to record their speaking responses
• PERFECT for mini lessons or warm ups as well as assessment grades or progress monitoring
• Focus on: Describe, categorize, compare and contrast and more!
• Plus so much more!

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This ACCESS practice will ease everyone’s stress as you work towards completing the ACCESS! You don’t want to miss out on the HELPFUL resource. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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Newcomer Personal Narrative Writing

⭐️This unit is for Level 1 & 2 students + an entire BONUS unit for SLIFE students!!⭐️

Are you searching for project based learning opportunities for your ESL ELL newcomers (Beginner/intermediate Entering/Emerging + SLIFE) that are FUN and that you can use and scaffold with ELL ESL Newcomers of ALL LEVELS? This Around the House & Family 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 vocabulary, speaking, reading, writing, key grammar and much MORE!

This unit uses digital resources like Google slides and PDFs and is ⭐️_NO PREP⭐️_

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Have supports for ALL their levels and needs (Beginner, Intermediate, SLIFE, Entering, Emerging, Level 1 & 2)
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Have the opportunity to mature in life skills
• Design their dream house
• Create new family traditions

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 (127 slides) to support you and your Newcomer ELL students through all parts of the project AND teach about the Around the House/Home & Family topics/themes
• Pacing Guide broken down in weeks and days
• STUDENT SLIFE WORKBOOK--PDF Printable---83 pages
• Video directions (for teachers)
• Pre-Assessment and Post-Assessment
• Around the House & Family Vocabulary
• Writing, Reading & Speaking practice
• Present Continuous Tense (SLIFE and regular level)
• Present Simple (VERB: TO HAVE & TO BE---SLIFE)
• Possessive Adjectives
• Vocaroo Recordings Practice
• Reading Practice - 3 Different Passages (SLIFE level and regular level)
• Writing Practice---3 different levels (Lower level, higher level and SLIFE)
• STUDENT PROJECT: Create a new family tradition!
• STUDENt PROJECT: FAMILY TREE
• FINAL PROJECT: Design your DREAM HOUSE! ***PDF PRINTABLE VERSION and TEMPLATED GOOGLE SLIDES for STUDENTS TO FILL OUT AND PRESENT***

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⭐️This unit is for SLIFE & Level 1 & 2 students!⭐️

Are you searching for project-based learning opportunities for your ESL ELL newcomers (Beginner/intermediate Entering/Emerging + SLIFE) that are FUN and that you can use and scaffold with ELL ESL Newcomers of ALL LEVELS? This DISASTER UNIT includes enough lessons to last you 4 weeks! Your multilingual ML students will have the chance to gain valuable knowledge about SCIENCE content vocabulary all while working on developing skills such as vocabulary, speaking, reading, writing, key grammar and much MORE!

This unit uses digital resources like Google slides and PDFs and is ⭐️_NO PREP⭐️_

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Learn about volcanic eruptions, nuclear accidents and ZOMBIES!
• Identify and write about causes and effects
• Analyze text
• Have scaffolds for SLIFE, Entering, Beginner, Emerging and Level 1 students
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Create a project about their own disaster and survival tool kits!

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 (140+ slides) to support you and your Newcomer ELL students through all parts of the project AND teach about the Disaster Science topics/themes
• Student Workbook--PDF Printable
• Pacing Guide broken down in weeks and days

*Week 1: Volcanic Eruptions

*Week 2: Nuclear Accidents

*Week 3: Zombies

*Week 4: Student Projects & Presentations

• Video directions (for teachers)
• Pre-Assessment and Post-Assessment
• Engaging videos for listening practice and background knowledge
• PWIM model activities
• SLIFE scaffolds
• Science Content Vocabulary
• Writing, Reading & Speaking practice
• Vocaroo Recordings Practice (great practice for their state language test--ACCESS--TELPAS--and more)
• Reading Practice - 3 Different Passages
• Writing Practice---3 different activities
• FINAL PROJECT: Create a Survival Tool Kit! *Google Slides and PDF version*

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Are you searching for project based learning opportunities for your ESL ELL SLIFE Newcomers that are FUN? This career & housing unit includes enough lessons to last you 3 weeks! Your multilingual ML students will have the chance to gain valuable knowledge about real life experiences and planning for their futures, all while working on developing skills needed for their careers, housing research, budgeting, speaking, reading, writing 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
• Have the opportunity to mature in life skills
• Plan their futures
• RECORD A PODCAST!!! (Or, create student Google Slides presentations that are already templated with language frames)

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 (128 slides) to support you and your Newcomer ELL students through all parts of the project AND teach about the career and housing unit
• A BONUS SLIFE PDF Workbook for your ENTERING/SLIFE STUDENTS!
• Grading Tool (PDF)
• Pacing Guide broken down in weeks and days
• Video directions (for teacher)
• Pre-Assessment and Post-Assessment
• Simple Grammar Practice & Handout
• Career & Housing Vocabulary
• Writing & speaking practice
• Countable & Uncountable Nouns
• Singular and Plural Noun Practice
• Vocaroo Recordings Practice
• Reading Practice - 3 Different Passages
• Number Practice & Quantifiers
• THREE different project choices! 

1. TEMPLATED GOOGLE SLIDES FOR STUDENT PRESENTATIONS---students will use these to create their own slideshow and practice speaking
2. Vocaroo recording directions and student "one pager" to put recording QR codes for their podcast
3. Podcast recording directions for Spotify!

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Are you searching for project based learning opportunities for your ESL ELL newcomers that are FUN and ENGAGING? This Extreme Sports Unit includes enough lessons to last you 3 weeks! Your multilingual ML students will have the chance to gain valuable knowledge about real life experiences and exciting new topics, all while working on developing skills needed for speaking, listening, reading and writing!

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
• Learn new grammar and tenses
• PROJECT: CREATE YOUR OWN EXTREME SPORT!!! (Or, create student Google Slides presentations that are already templated with language frames)

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 (129 slides) to support you and your Newcomer ELL students through all parts of the project AND teach about extreme sports
• Pacing Guide broken down in weeks and days
• Video directions (for teacher)
• Pre-Assessment and Post-Assessment
• Simple Grammar Practice & Handout
• Extreme sport Vocabulary
• Writing & speaking practice
• Adverbs of Manner
• Past simple tense
• Reading Practice - 3 Different Passages
• TWO different project choices! 

1. TEMPLATED GOOGLE SLIDES FOR STUDENT PRESENTATIONS---students will use these to create their own slideshow and practice speaking and create their own extreme sport
2. Templated PDF printable for students to create their own extreme sport
3. EXTENSION ACTIVITY---Use Canva for students to create their own extreme sport flyer!

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Are you searching for project based learning opportunities for your ESL ELL newcomers that are FUN? This grocery store & money unit includes enough lessons to last you 3 weeks! Your beginner Newcoemr multilingual ML students will have the chance to gain valuable knowledge about a real life experience. All while working on developing skills such as budgeting, speaking, listening, research, and much MORE!

This resource uses digital Google slides and PDF printables 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
• Have the opportunity to mature in life skills
• Complete a workbook!

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

What’s Included:

• A teacher Pear Deck/Google Slides (128 slides) to support you and your Newcomer ELL students through all parts of the project AND teach about the grocery store and money
• BONUS: 87 page SLIFE PDF student workbook for your TRUE NEWCOMERS who need TONS of scaffolds!
• Grading Tool (PDF)
• Pacing Guide broken down in weeks and days
• Video directions (for teacher)
• Pre-Assessment and Post-Assessment
• Simple Grammar Practice & Handout
• Grocery Store & Money Vocabulary
• Writing & speaking practice
• Countable & Uncountable Nouns
• Singular and Plural Noun Practice
• Vocaroo Recordings Practice
• Reading Practice - 3 Different Passages
• Number Practice & Quantifiers 
• TEMPLATED GOOGLE SLIDES FOR STUDENT PRESENTATIONS---students will use these to create their own slideshow and practice speaking.

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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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Are you on the hunt for a personal narrative writing project for your secondary ELL emerging to expanding students? This unit has everything you need for 3 weeks of NO PREP lessons and step by step guided instruction on everything from learning about the genre, structure, pre-writing, peer editing, to presenting about their personal narratives!

This is perfect for teaching the content of Language Arts!

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 students tell their incredible stories!

What’s Included:

• 3 Weeks of lessons that are READY TO GO NO PREP!!!
• Teacher video to guide you through the WHOLE UNIT!
• Follows the WIDA KEY USE: NARRATE objectives and formatting
• 60 guided Pear Deck/Google Slides to guide the WHOLE UNIT and give background on the genre, formatting, practice with past tense and more!
• Built in timers for "timed writing" of students' personal narratives
• Pre-writing organizers
• Peer Editing handouts and slides
• Grading rubric 
• Vocabulary swap out to help students improve their vocabulary and writing
• TONS of descriptive writing practice and handouts
• Transition word handout and guide
• Engaging visuals and resources for SECONDARY multilingual learners of multiple levels!
• Tons of language supports and vocabulary throughout
• Templated STUDENT PRESENTATION SLIDES so students can present and reflect on their personal narratives
• And MORE!!!

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sebastian P. wrote, “Great unit bundle. The writing organizers were so helpful for my different level ELD classes. Your resources are really awesome, thanks for making stuff for older ELLs!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Beka M. wrote, “This was a nice break from the standard personal narrative that students are typically expected to write.” 

This ESL writing resource will give them confidence in their writing ability. You don’t want to miss out on this. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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Are you on the hunt for a SLIFE Newcomer Fall Activity Workbook for your secondary ELL Newcomers that teaches ALL the fall vocabulary and plus reading, writing and listening activities?! Start this fall season off right for you and your ESL Newcomer students with this NO PREP 87 page SLIFE Newcomer student workbook!

Your Students Will:

• Learn new vocabulary
• Construct simple sentences
• Apply knowledge
• Practice skills while completing the activities
• Discuss vocabulary and back to school topics with each other
• Read about fall seasonal holidays
• Practice listening comprehension

What’s Included:

• 87 PDF printable student workbook pages
• TONS of FALL vocabulary (weather, clothes, holidays, traditions, foods, and more)
• Holidays in fall: Thanksgiving, Veteran's Day, Diwali, Day of the Dead, Halloween, & Mexican Independence Day
• TONS of Writing practice with sentence frames and vocabulary supports for SLIFE and Newcomer Students
• Speaking practice with language frames to facilitate conversations
• Assessments
• Heads Up Game with card printables!

Are you struggling to know what level your secondary ELL multilingual students are currently? Do you need a beginning of 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 (BOY)--**Different assessment than MOY and EOY**
• A comprehensive rubric for teachers with answers keys
• A tracking doc and progress monitoring tool
• Links for audio recordings and directions

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.

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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

Are you on the hunt for a progress monitoring tool for your ESL secondary students? This resource has 13 pages of great tools to help YOU!

What’s Included:

• Progress Monitoring Tool CUSTOM made for ELL/multilingual learners with a CUSTOM rubric (tenses, sub/verb agreement, content vocab, sentence complexity)
• WIDA CAN DO Descriptor Rubric (Grades 6-8 & 9-12)
• *WIDA KEY USE RUBRIC!* NEW! (Grades 6-8 & 9-12)
• Key Use Progress Monitoring Tool
• Self Assessment tool
• Conference Notes templates
• Space at the bottom of monitoring tools for conference notes and student input

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Justin H. wrote, “I have been looking for something like this for years! I really appreciate you making this resource, and it's great to have the new WIDA Key Use information on a more user friendly rubric. Thank you!”

Everything you need to monitor your students using the WIDA Key. You don’t want to miss out on this HELPFUL resource. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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Tabletop texting is a great way to assess student learning on the topic you are studying in class. It is also a great way to foster student collaboration skills and keep students engaged.

Use this product after your lesson to review what students have learned. Pair students using the included partner cards, then have students "text" each other about the topic they are studying. My students always loved this activity and I loved it because they were engaged and having fun!

This product includes a sample lesson plan and examples of how to use in class, four different tabletop texting templates in both full sheets and half sheets and fun partner cards!

Questions? Email me at lucyslittlelearnersTeachShare@gmail.com