Middle School Other (Specialty) Cultural Activities

Are you looking for a way to teach about Holi to your secondary ESL students? Your secondary ELL students will learn in a variety of interactive ways with plenty of games, slides, writing, speaking, and listening!

Your Students Will:

• Work on vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Complete research
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Have the opportunity to work independently or in a group.

This activity has EVERYTHING you need to teach about Holi with your ESL students.

What’s Included:

• 40 engaging and interactive Pear Deck slides for secondary students
• Embedded videos to showcase Holi festivals and activities
• A Who/What/When/Where/Why/How/Fun Facts format
• Writing practice with ELL scaffolds (sentence frames) to support all levels
• Speaking & Listening practice for students
• Holi infograph PDF Printable
• Student Note-catcher Google Doc 
• Exit Ticket PDF Printable

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sebastian P. wrote, “This was a blast to teach. Loved the formatting and graphics and videos. Will you be making one for Ramadan? Thanks.”

These Holi activities will make for an exciting unit! You don’t want to miss out on this ENGAGING unit. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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Are you looking for a way to teach about Ramadan to your secondary ESL students? Your secondary ELL students will learn in a variety of interactive ways with plenty of games, slides, writing, speaking, and listening!

Your Students Will:

• Work on vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Complete research
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Have the opportunity to work independently or in a group.

This activity has EVERYTHING you need to teach about Ramadan with your ESL students.

What’s Included:

• 50 engaging and interactive Pear Deck slides for secondary students
• Embedded videos to showcase Ramadan (Hajj, Ramadan in the US, facts)
• A Who/What/When/Where/Why/How/Fun Facts format
• Writing practice with ELL scaffolds (sentence frames) to support all levels
• Speaking & Listening practice for students
• 2 Ramadan infographs PDF Printable
• Student Note-catcher Google Doc
• Ramadan BINGO PDF
• Ramadan Planner PDF
• Ramadan Coloring sheet PDF 
• Exit Ticket PDF Printable

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Matthew T. wrote, “Great resource for Ramadan for my high school ELL students. The slides looked great and there was tons of interaction for the kids with Pear Deck and the graphic organizer. The writing supports helped my Level 2-Level 4 class all be able to do this lesson. Videos were well chosen and the printables were nice to have.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rosa B. wrote, “Great resource. We loved the videos in particular!” 

These Ramadan activities will make for an exciting unit! You don’t want to miss out on this ENGAGING unit. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

Check out these resources:

➡️ Bundle & SAVE - ESL Year Long Holiday Slides & Lessons

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Need a fun first week ESL ELL activity to get your secondary Newcomer ELL students speaking and learning more about each other? This activity is FUN and helps students craft their responses with tons of language frames!

This product includes:

• 20 slides to teach the activity and with FUN and engaging THIS OR THAT scenarios for students to discuss!
• Secondary themes and topics
• Different language frames that get more complex as the slides go on!
• A great chance to learn about your students and create a classroom community!

This is the perfect ESL ELD resource to teach your ELL students about Day of the Dead! It gives them engaging graphics, interactive slides, and a video to help them really learn about such an exciting holiday.

This resource includes:

1. 24 interactive slides
2. Writing, drawing, and multiple choice slides
3. Recipe to analyze for Bread of the Dead
4. Embedded video
5. Sentence frames for a conclusion slide

Make sure your ELL students don't miss out on this fun lesson! Perfect for a 45 minutes class period.

Need a great ESL ELL lesson for your secondary Newcomers for the first week of back to school?! This printable PDF packet has everything you need to get to know your students, informally assess their abilities, and show them vocabulary!

This resource includes:

• 21 pages of prompts, organizers, writing and vocabulary for secondary Newcomers
• Info about students, their families, where they're from, interests, classes, passions, hobbies, school info, time in the US, languages they speak, special places to them and more!
• Learn their native language as they share their favorite word in their first language and tell you what it means in English
• Engaging and inclusive graphics and visuals for secondary students
• Everything you need for either warm-ups for the first two weeks of school OR for 3-5 full days of lessons
• 6 pages of vocabulary to help students write about their hobbies, dream jobs and their personalities
• A fun and engaging resource to get your secondary newcomer students talking and writing!

This is the perfect lesson for the first week of school! These secondary slides will help your students express themselves and show their interests and passions! Great for all secondary students!

What's included:

• 14 slides that are ready to go---they just need students to add their personal info and details!
• Slides about students' background, interests, dreams, passions, family, goals, dream trip, futures and more!
• Professional look for secondary classrooms
• Directions slide to support students doing this project independently
• Students can present to the class when done!

Need a fun and engaging Halloween activity for your ESL ELL secondary students? This no prep game has everything you need to get students talking about Halloween adventures and traditions!!!

What's included:

• 25 slides with questions, teacher directions, visuals, and sentence speaking frames for students to discuss what they HAVE done when they lose a point and put a finger down
• Engaging themes and visuals for secondary students
• Halloween themes appropriate for the classroom
• Directions slide
• EACH slide has a sentence frame at the bottom to get students TALKING!
• Perfect for ELL multilingual learners, SPED students and ALL students!