11th Grade Winter Google Apps

If you are looking for a rigorous yet engaging skills-based lesson that will really put a SPRING in your step, look no further than this Spring-Themed DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM for use with Google Drive!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Spring-Themed Language Arts Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this engaging lesson, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your students are trapped in your digital classroom and cannot leave for spring break until they solve 5 Language Arts skills-based tasks about spring!

• Spring to Life: In the first task, students must fill in the blanks with the spring-inspired idioms.
• Figurative as a Flower: In the second task, students identify the figurative language devices used in excerpts from beautiful spring poems (like After the Winter by Claude McKay).
• Edna's Spring: In the third task, students must perform a close reading of Spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the perfect poem to study as the days get warmer, and answer multiple choice questions about the poem.
• Spring Fever: In the fourth task, students will read 8 quotes about spring and identify the part of speech of underlined words within each quote.
• Jig Saw Quote: In the final task, students must solve a jig saw puzzle that reveals a provocative quote about spring. Once they figure out the quote and share the file with you, they may escape to spring break!

Product Includes:

- Instructions for how to access and share escape room and answer key through Google Drive

- Materials for 5 Tasks: digital task signs, detailed task instructions, and supplementary materials

- Digital Student Worksheets

- Digital Teacher Answer Key

This product requires free accounts through Google Drive and is completely paperless.

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Can't get enough escape rooms? Check out more themed escapes by Language Arts Excellence here:

⭐ End of Year ELA ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Halloween ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Thanksgiving ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Christmas ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ New Year's ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ St. Patrick's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Back to School ELA ESCAPE ROOM

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This bundle includes the in-class and digital versions of our Spring Break ELA Escape Room!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock. Now, you can facilitate our Spring Break ELA Escape Room in the classroom and at home for distance learning with this meticulously-crafted bundle. All tasks are skills-based so that with these fun lessons, learning is not sacrificed. Whether they are in school or at home, your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing with these activities!

How does it work?

Your students are trapped in your classroom and cannot leave for spring break until they solve 5 Language Arts skills-based tasks about spring!

• Spring to Life: In the first task, students must fill in the blanks with the spring-inspired idioms.
• Figurative as a Flower: In the second task, students identify the figurative language devices used in excerpts from beautiful spring poems (like After the Winter by Claude McKay).
• Edna's Spring: In the third task, students must perform a close reading of Spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the perfect poem to study as the days get warmer, and answer multiple choice questions about the poem.
• Spring Fever: In the fourth task, students will read 8 quotes about spring and identify the part of speech of underlined words within each quote.
• Jig Saw Quote: In the final task, students must solve a jig saw puzzle that reveals a provocative quote about spring. Once they figure out the quote and share the file with you, they may escape to spring break!

In-Class Escape Room Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Welcome Sign for Your Door

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Sheet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

Digital Escape Room Includes:

- Instructions for how to access and share escape room and answer key through Google Drive

- Materials for 5 Tasks: digital task signs, detailed task instructions, and supplementary materials

- Digital Student Worksheets

- Digital Teacher Answer Key

These escape rooms are suitable for middle and high school students and are ideal for any day from March through June as the sun begins to shine a little brighter and the crocuses peep their heads out from the soil.

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Can't get enough escape rooms? Check out more themed escapes by Language Arts Excellence here:

⭐ End of Year ELA ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Halloween ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Thanksgiving ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Christmas ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ New Year's ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ St. Patrick's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Back to School ELA ESCAPE ROOM

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This bundle features a full year's worth (one escape room per month) of our rigorous and engaging digital escape rooms for your secondary Language Arts classroom for use with Google Drive.

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! Now, you can facilitate 12 of our popular digital escape rooms at home for distance learning or in the classroom using your school's technology (thereby cutting down on paper and valuable prep time) with this meticulously-crafted bundle of resources. Each escape room is skills-based so that with these fun activities, learning is not sacrificed. Distance learning can certainly be a struggle for both students and teachers, so these escape rooms aim to provide a welcome break from the monotony while encouraging higher order thinking skills and a fun review of language arts skills.

How does it work?

Your students must work to escape your digital classroom by solving 5 different Language Arts skills-based puzzles, discovering hidden messages, and finding clues along the way.

Each Escape Room Includes:

- Instructions for how to access and share escape room and answer key through Google Drive

- Materials for 5 Tasks: digital task signs, detailed task instructions, and interactive worksheets

- Digital Student Answer Booklet

- Digital Teacher Answer Key

Suggested Escape Room Progression:

• August - Back to School ELA Digital Escape Room for Distance Learning
• September - Back to School Grammar Digital Escape Room
• October - Halloween Digital Escape Room
• November - Thanksgiving ELA Digital Escape Room
• December - Christmas ELA Digital Escape Room
• January - Escape from Dystopia Digital ESCAPE ROOM & PowerPoint
• February - Valentine's Day ELA Digital Escape Room
• March - Spring Break Digital Escape Room
• April - Digital Poetry Escape Room
• May - Shakespeare Digital Escape Room
• June - End of Year ELA Digital Escape Room
• July - The Lottery Digital Escape Room

Purchasing this bundle saves 30% off the cover price of a year's worth of escape rooms. All are suitable for middle-high school students. Note that these products require free accounts through Google Drive and are completely paperless.

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Looking for a GAME that will make SPEAKING FUN in Spanish class?  This winter-themed snowball speaking activity will get students using their Spanish creatively!  This low-prep game, called Snowball Fight, will have students competing to tell stories about a winter day! Easy to differentiate and scaffold with the included teacher instructions and vocab list!

How to play:

-Students choose snowballs (each snowball has a winter-related word)

-Students must create a story with the words on the snowballs, forcing them to think on their feet and create a logical story with random words!

The variations of this game are endless and you can play it all winter long! 

❄have students choose their own snowballs or

❅have their opponent pick for them!

❆give students as much time as they need to tell their story or

❄set a time limit.  Whoever used more snowballs wins!

❅have students pick snowballs one at a time instead of all at once

❆change the verb tense

❄change their opponents

❅Try 2 v 2!

*❅❅*You can even use this as a writing practice instead of speaking!  

❄Increase your students’ ability to  produce creative Spanish!

Teacher Prep:

-Print the snowballs

-Photocopy enough snowballs sets for HALF of your class

-cut the snowballs (6 per page)  *Perfect task for a student helper!

Who can use this product?

• Students in Spanish 2 and up

How can I use this product?

• Set students up in pairs (a group of 3 could work too!)
• Students will choose snowballs.  Each snowball has a winter-related word
• Set parameters (like listed above) to create the rules of the game
• Students use the words on their snowballs to create winter day stories!

What’s included in this product?

• 36 snowballs, each with a winter-related word printed on it
• Teacher instructions
• Printable student instructions
• Scorecard
• Vocab list 
• Self-Assessment rubric
• Peer Feedback rubric
• Color version
• Black and white version

Other resources you may like:

Spanish Winter-Themed Activities Bundle for Invierno

Spanish Simulated Conversations

Christmas in Spain Digital Escape Room!

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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.

Check out these resources:

➡️ Bundle & SAVE - ESL Newcomer Winter Bundle

Multilingual Classroom Monthly Newsletter - Editable

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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Need winter reading passages that are FUN and will get your secondary ELL ESL Newcomer excited to read and learn about winter holidays?!

This resource has everything you need for ESL ELD secondary Newcomers! You will get tons of pre-teach vocabulary, vocabulary in context word work, 4 engaging reading passages AND comprehension questions! This product will teach all about Winter Weather, Kwanzaa, New Years & a Chinese New Year Letter!

This resource includes:

1. 13 pages of Reading Activities
2. QR Codes to read passages and vocabulary aloud
3. 4 High Interest Passages for Newcomers about winter holidays (Winter Weather, Kwanzaa, NYE, Chinese New Year)
4. Pre-Teach Vocabulary for each passage
5. Vocabulary in Context Activity for student to apply and practice new vocabulary
6. Editable Google Doc format PLUS printable PDF version
7. TONS of engaging visuals for secondary students
8. Comprehension questions for each passage with language supports built in

Need more Newcomer Winter resources? Try my other products!

Newcomer Winter Writing & Newcomer Winter Listening and Speaking

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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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Need a fun winter ESL ELL activity to get your secondary ELL students of ALL levels speaking and learning more about each other? This activity is FUN and helps students craft their responses with tons of language frames that get more complex as the slides go on! Students will discuss winter holidays, activities, foods and more!

This product includes:

• 20 slides to teach the activity and with FUN and engaging THIS OR THAT scenarios for students to discuss!
• Winter themes (holidays, food, clothes, activities, 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 with a partner
• SPEAKING PRACTICE that is fun and engaging!