High School EFL - ESL - ELD Graphic Organizers

Help your students practice listening and the summary strategy of identifying 3-4 key words. After they identify the words, they use those words to construct a non fiction summary. Sentence starters provided for the written summary.

A great strategy for ELL students, SpEd and all kids.

Need something for your Newcomers on their first day of school to record important information about school?

This ESL ELD Newcomer product is perfect for your ELL Newcomers to be able to record important school information like their locker number, school mascot, lunch and bus info, counselor and ELD teacher's name, etc.

This ESL ELD resource will allow you to edit a ready made visual schedule for Newcomer ELL students. Your Newcomer ELL students will love how beautiful and easy to read their new schedule is as they adjust to a new school. Comes with additional photos so you can customize for different classes.

This ESL listening resource is for watching the CNN 10 student news with ELL students and having them critically analyze world events and make connections. Each news story is chunked and students will do a different style of analysis for each event. This utilizes ELL strategies that are also helpful for ALL students. This assignment also has sentence frames AND starters built in!

This engaging resource will:

***Improve students' listening skills

***Help them identify key ideas

***Make connections to real world events

***Discuss current events

***Improve their academic writing

***Be informed on current events

If you are looking for even MORE speaking practice for your ELL students, try my other ESL resources of multilingual learners that will get them using academic language!

Try my Coffee Shop Talk resource!

Give your students a guided resources to brainstorm and plan their antagonist and protagonist so they can have a well crafted story. This organizer allows students to look at physical characteristics and personality traits, and how they connect with each other, the setting, and what their motivation and background are.

This ESL ELD resource is great for listening practice and analysis for your ELL students as well as writing. Students will listen to three NPR StoryCorps stories that follow the voices and stories of Native Americans. Students will have a graphic organizer to complete that will challenge and engage them.

This activity includes:

1. Lots of visuals

2. Vocabulary supports

3. Sentence starters and frames

4. Theme practice

5. Synthesizing all three stories

This is a great way to weave in Native American voices with the listening and writing practice your ELL students need!

Like this resource?

Try part one of this activity here!

Use this ESL ELD resource to create multilingual student profiles for your ELL students with all the critical information teachers and staff need. This form will help teachers and staff get to know their multilingual learners and help you share information easily and professionally.

This resource comes with *FOUR DIFFERENT VERSIONS*

This is the perfect ESL ELD lesson to teach your Newcomer ELL students about Informational Writing! You will get a reading passage, two sets of writing scaffolds for Entering and Emerging levels, tons of vocabulary, and a student writing checklist all in this one resource!

This resource includes:

1. A professional visual for the Informational genre with a checklist
2. 8 Google Doc pages of resources for Informational Reading, Writing, and Speaking
3. 3 Speaking prompts to get kids engaged in the topic of sharks and protecting wildlife
4. Pre Teach Vocabulary
5. A Shark text/infographic
6. Reading comprehension questions
7. Pre Writing Organizer
8. Writing scaffold/template for Entering students
9. Writing scaffold/template for Emerging students
10. Writing checklist for the Informational Genre

Looking for more Newcomer resources???

Try my Personal Narrative for Newcomers linked HERE! and my Newcomer Professional Development HERE!

Are you on the hunt for a spring activity for your ESL Newcomer secondary students that focuses on reading and vocabulary? This ESL ELL Back to School reading unit includes spring themes and stories. They will read about Ramadan, St. Patrick's Day, Recycling and Steps to Plant a Garden!

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 has A LOT of ready to use activities for your students. You have the ability to have spring resources at your fingertips to work on reading and vocabulary.

What’s Included:

• 4 Reading passages for Newcomers (Entering and Emerging levels)
• Engaging topics and themes for secondary students like a St. Patrick's Day letter (fiction), a Ramadan story (fiction), recycling (infographic) and steps to plant a spring vegetable garden (infographic)
• QR codes to have passages, questions and vocabulary read ALOUD!
• Vocabulary work for each passage
• Pre-reading prediction and discussion questions
• Reading comprehension questions
• Engaging visuals that celebrate diversity
• A GREAT lesson that is very structured and guided to leave for a SUB!!!

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Steve A. wrote, “Great engaging topics and very professional layout. My 10th graders loved them, and that the passages included Ramadan and Inforgraphs. Thanks!”

You can have instant access to some spring resources for your students that are fun and engaging! You don’t want to miss out on this EXCITING activity. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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