8th Grade Other (Specialty) Assessment

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!!!

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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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Access Test Prep Mega Bundle

Are you hunting for a FUN way to get your ESL ELL secondary students using argumentative writing? This Thanksgiving themed unit includes resources to break down teaching writing and provides examples and aids!

5 days of lessons in this mini unit - 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 practice for tests.

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

What’s Included:

• 5 days of lessons that have ZERO PREP
• Work that can be used for lower and higher level ELLs
• A guided teacher slide deck (50 slides) that covers EACH day's activities AND has all the linked resources
• A student Google Slides independent activity
• A writing rubric (PDF)
• Student writing note catcher with Pre writing, rough draft, and final draft formatting (Google Doc)
• POWERFUL WORDS handout (PDF)
• Linked recordings for the text and vocabulary
• Transition word support
• Preps students for the TELPAS, ACCESS and ELPAC state tests!
• Color coded steps for CLAIM--EVIDENCE---REASONS
• Student note catcher to document findings from videos and two texts
• Two different texts about a colonizer's perspective of Thanksgiving and Indigenous/Native American perspective on Thanksgiving (Google Doc)
• Group discussion and partner work
• Self edit slides with checklist
• Peer edit resources (PDF)
• Teacher conferences/feedback (PDF)
• Argumentative genre visual and checklist (PDF)
• Student vocabulary slides for independent practice/extension (Google Slides)
• Day by day instructions and agendas so you have to do NOTHING! :)

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sarah A. wrote, “This was a perfect no prep writing unit for the week before Thanksgiving with my 10th grade ELLs! My students range from Emerging to Expanding and they did really well with it and wrote awesome argumentative essays. I loved the variety of activities and how guided the teacher slides were and the student note catcher. Everything was so clear and prepared that I could have easily left it for a sub as well. The debates we had were awesome about Thanksgiving and its history. Thank you!”

This Thanksgiving Mini 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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ESL Scary Story Writing Bundle

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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 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 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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ESL Newcomer Spring Bundle

Access Test Prep Mega Bundle

Do you need a way to challenge and prepare your secondary ESL ELL learners for the ELPAC? This ELPAC test prep is perfect for BEFORE the test to either showcase the formatting OR you can use it as a BOY MOY or EOY tool to assess students levels.

This resource will take several days to weeks to give to students and is intended to be chunked out into parts or sections as there is a LOT in this practice test.

Your Students Will:

• Develop strategies
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice testing strategies
• Work on developing test taking skills
• Complete practice & experience test formatting
• Have the opportunity to expand knowledge

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

What’s Included:

• 35 pages of test prep formatting and questions
• ANSWER KEY
• PDF Printable Feedback and grading resource to score students in each part of the test (organized by: collaborative skills, interpretive skills, productive skills, and learning how English works skills)
• Structure that follows the ELPAC test and types of questions and prompts
• Material for grades 6-12
• Listening prompts and questions with linked recordings (Types: Support an opinion, short conversation, presentation, classroom conversation)
• Speaking prompts and questions with linked recordings & directions how to record (talk about a scene, speech functions, support an opinion, support and discuss, summarize an academic opinion)
• Reading prompts and questions with linked recordings (informational passages, student essay, literary passage) 
• Writing prompts and questions with linked recordings (describe a picture, write about an experience, justify an opinion)

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

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TELPAS Practice - Test Prep Bundle

Newcomer Personal Narrative Writing

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