12th Grade EFL - ESL - ELD Thematic Unit Plans

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Check out these resources:

ESL Travel Project Bundle

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