8th Grade Other (Specialty) Activities

⭐️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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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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⭐️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 Daily Life & Time includes enough lessons to last you 3 weeks! Your multilingual ML students will have the chance to gain valuable knowledge about DAILY LIFE and TIME vocabulary all while working on developing skills such as listening, 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 how to tell time and write and talk about time
• Learn about daily life activities and vocabulary
• 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 the daily life of a famous person!

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 (100+ slides) to support you and your Newcomer ELL students through all parts of the project AND teach about the Daily Life & time topics/themes
• Student Workbook--PDF Printable
• Pacing Guide broken down in weeks and days
• Video directions (for teachers)
• Pre-Assessment and Post-Assessment
• Engaging videos for listening practice and background knowledge
• PWIM model activities
• SLIFE scaffolds
• TONS of vocabulary printables and visuals
• Writing, Reading & Speaking practice
• Present Simple tense
• Vocaroo Recordings Practice (great practice for their state language test--ACCESS--TELPAS--and more)
• Reading Practice - 2 Different Passages
• Writing Practice---2 different activities with scaffolds
• FINAL PROJECT:
  OPTION A: Daily Life of a Famous Person

OPTION B: My Daily Life Podcast

OPTION B: My Daily Life Vocaroo- Podcast

(Google Slides and PDF printable version also included!)

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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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⭐️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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⭐️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 Our Planet 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 plastic pollution, overfishing and deforestation
• Identify and write about problems and solutions
• 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 how to help their communities with a problem and come up with a solution!

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 Around the Our Planet Science topics/themes
• Student Workbook--PDF Printable
• Pacing Guide broken down in weeks and days

*Week 1: Overfishing

*Week 2: Plastic Pollution

*Week 3: Deforestation

*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
• SHOULD modal
• Vocaroo Recordings Practice (great practice for their state language test--ACCESS--TELPAS--and more)
• Reading Practice - 3 Different Passages
• Writing Practice---3 different activities with scaffolds
• FINAL PROJECT: Identify One Major Issue in Their Community and Offer Solutions
  *Google Slides and PDF version*

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Are you on the hunt for a SLIFE Newcomer Health and Wellness Human Body bundle for your secondary ELL Newcomers that teaches ALL the physical and emotional SEL vocabulary and grammar PLUS a self care plan activity?? Start this back to school season off right for you and your ESL students with this NO PREP 94 page SLIFE Newcomer student workbook! Ready to PRINT AND GO!!!!

This Unit is Broken Down into THREE Parts:

1) The Human Body Vocabulary (labeling, vocabulary cards, sentence writing, describing)

2) Physical Health (exercise, healthy eating, sentence writing, vocabulary cards, reading and writing activities)

3) Emotional Health SEL (emotions, sentence writing, self care, reading passages and writing activities, Self Care Plan Activity)

Your Students Will:

• Learn science content vocabulary (body part)
• Physical and emotional health vocabulary (foods, exercise, emotions)
• Construct simple sentences
• Apply knowledge
• Practice skills while completing the activities
• Discuss vocabulary and health topics with each other
• Read about teens their age

What’s Included:

• 108 PDF printable student workbook pages
• TONS of Health and Wellness content vocabulary (emotions, physical health, mental health, body parts vocabulary)
• TONS of Writing practice with sentence frames and vocabulary supports for SLIFE and Newcomer Students
• Reading passages WITH QR Codes
• Comprehension questions
• Grammar focus: adjectives, descriptive language
• Speaking practice with language frames to facilitate conversations
• Assessments
• Class Activities
• SEL activity: "My Self Care Plan"