8th Grade EFL - ESL - ELD Cultural Activities

Are you hunting for a FUN way to get your ESL ELL secondary students writing? This Halloween themed unit includes resources to break down teaching writing and provides examples and aids! Perfect for after testing and to wrap up your year. 

Use the fun and interactive slide show to walk your students through the creative writing process for writing Halloween scary stories!

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 practice using Vocaroo

This resource is ENGAGING and will have your secondary ESL students excited about writing. NO PREP

What’s Included:

• 70+ slides that help you teach HOW to write a scary story
• Writing examples for EACH part of the plot (rising action, climax, etc)
• Scary story EXAMPLE STORIES (5 stories)
• Guide for students to work in groups & ANALYZE sample scary stories & fill out an organizer and present their analysis to the class
• Descriptive Writing Practice PDF Printable
• Parts of a plot/Plot Line PDF Printable
• Engaging Pear Deck slides that will walk YOU the teacher through EVERY step of the writing unit so you have NO PREP!
• Tons of visuals and language frames
• Templated student slides for students to use to create their presentations!
• Student Conference PDF Printable
• Writing Rubric PDF Printable 
• Writing Checklist PDF Printable
• Student Self Reflections PDF Printable
• Guide for presenting and creating slides
• Slide to teach how to record their stories on Vocaroo

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ David P. wrote, “My students loved using this resource to help them write scary stories. Most students were engaged in writing. This product helped all students--all ability levels--to complete the writing assignment. ”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kelsey S. wrote, “Great resource! My kids loved the slides, it was easy to use, engaging, and effective for helping my students use sentence structures we’ve been practicing. I love it!” 

This Scary Story Unit 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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Are you hunting for a FUN way to get your ESL ELL newcomer students writing? This Halloween themed unit includes resources to break down teaching writing and provides examples and aids! 

This unit has EVERYTHING you need from the writing process, past tense, vocabulary, rough draft, example scary stories AND MORE!

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 practice using Vocaroo

This resource is ENGAGING and will have your secondary ESL students excited about writing. 

What’s Included:

• 70+ slides that help you teach HOW to write a scary story for secondary Newcomers
• Writing examples and breakdown for parts of a story
• Scary story EXAMPLE STORIES (2 stories) with vocabulary, QR codes to read the stories aloud, story analysis questions and frames and more!
• Descriptive Writing Practice PDF Printable
• Parts of a plot/Plot Line PDF Printable
• Teacher directions on how to teach the unit!
• Engaging Pear Deck slides that will walk YOU the teacher through EVERY step of the writing unit so you have NO PREP!
• Pre-writing organizer that helps students INDEPENDENTLY go through each step of the story!
• ROUGH DRAFT TEMPLATED STORY for students to use with transition words and more
• Tons of visuals and language frames
• Student Conference PDF Printable
• Writing Rubric PDF Printable 
• Printable vocabulary pages PDF
• Student Self Reflections PDF Printable & Teacher Feedback
• Slide to teach how to record their stories on Vocaroo
• AND SO MUCH MORE!

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Erin M. wrote, “This was an easy, no prep writing unit that I used with my middle and high school ESL students. It is very in depth about each step of the prewriting and writing process, and I very much appreciate the visuals and picture vocabulary included throughout!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sebastian P. wrote, “This was a blast to do with my 10th graders! I honestly can't believe how much my Newcomers wrote. The scaffolds were fantastic and all the additional lessons made this unit easy and so effective at teaching writing. Thank you!” 

This Scary Story Unit 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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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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This clothes and fashion unit 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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