Other (Specialty) Assessment

Easily monitor and analyze your students' WIDA ACCESS scores with this user-friendly Google Sheets template, designed to track both group and individual student progress. This powerful tool, created based on my years of experience working with ACCESS test scores, provides clear visualizations and detailed performance insights. Track scores for all students in one place, while also viewing detailed data for each individual student’s performance. Visualize student progress over time with automatically generated bar graphs, highlighting trends in language proficiency across the four domains (Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing). Dynamic checkboxes automatically update based on student progress towards specific goals such as a state-issued target score, a minimum required literacy score, or a minimum score to exit EL status. The percentage of students achieving these goals is also calculated automatically, with minimal effort on your part.

Also included is recording of the number of service minutes (push-in or pullout) that each student receives. I've used this in the past to justify the minutes of service (more or less) for students the following year, and even to advocate for the hiring of another EL teacher when I could clearly demonstrate that a reduction in minutes of support was leading to failure to make progress. There are also checkboxes to identify which students are on IEPs or 504 plans.

The file is currently set up with the required exit scores in Massachusetts, as that is where I work, but you can quickly and easily change those to your state's standards.

I have also included other Massachussetts-specific templates that have space to record MCAS scores. In Massachusetts we are also required to have student success plans for students who do not reach their state-assigned target on the ACCESS test. The state does not have a specific format that they require for the student success plans. The one I've included here is one that I have used and the state has been happy with it. Whether your state requires them or not, I think student success plans are a good idea for any student who is making slow or no progress on ACCESS.

This tracker is perfect for EL coordinators, teachers, and administrators focused on making data-driven decisions to improve student outcomes! All the sheets are printable. The individual student records are ideal for focusing conversations with students about their progress.

I cannot be your Google Sheets tech support person, but I have set the file up to be as automated as I can make it. For example, all the check boxes are triggered automatically. The file also comes with several pages of explanations.

Please note: 1) this file will NOT work in Excel and 2) I am not affiliated with WIDA in any way.

You will receive a PDF with a link to make your own copy of the file.

Terms of use:

Purchasing this product grants permission for use by ONE teacher or administrator. If you have colleagues who would like to use this file, please respect the huge amount of time I have put into making this for you and direct them to my store to buy their own copy! Thank you!

Tabletop texting is a great way to assess student learning on the topic you are studying in class. It is also a great way to foster student collaboration skills and keep students engaged.

Use this product after your lesson to review what students have learned. Pair students using the included partner cards, then have students "text" each other about the topic they are studying. My students always loved this activity and I loved it because they were engaged and having fun!

This product includes a sample lesson plan and examples of how to use in class, four different tabletop texting templates in both full sheets and half sheets and fun partner cards!

Questions? Email me at lucyslittlelearnersTeachShare@gmail.com

Do you need a test prep resource that will get your secondary ELL multilingual students completely prepared for the formatting and the reading, writing, listening and speaking demands of the ACCESS test? These 20 Warm Ups/Mini lessons are everything you need to prepare your TIER B/C students for ACCESS!

Your students will feel more confident taking ACCESS after completing these activities that focus on writing.

Your Students Will:

• Develop strategies
• Practice the WIDA KEY USE: INFORM
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice with academic content language
• Work on developing test taking skills
• Complete mini lessons and warm ups
• Have the opportunity to expand knowledge

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

What’s Included:

• 170 test prep slides written in the same formatting, structure and rigor of the ACCESS test
• Examples from "Nina" and "Elena" to mimic ACCESS
• Students will read, write, move items to categorize, speak, listen and more! 
• 20 Warm Ups/Mini Lessons that focus on Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking in the four content areas (Social Studies, Math, Language Arts and Science)
• Voice recordings, visuals, graphics, multiple choice and writing assessments
• Digital AND Printable (Google Doc + PDF) STUDENT NOTE CATCHER
• Tier B/C rigor and leveled questions
• Tons of exposure and practice with academic content language
• Vocaroo link for students to record their speaking responses
• PERFECT for mini lessons or warm ups as well as assessment grades or progress monitoring
• Focus on: Describe, categorize, compare and contrast and more!
• Plus so much more!

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Newcomer Personal Narrative Writing

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!!!

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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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⭐️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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⭐️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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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! :)

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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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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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Do you need a test prep resource that will get your secondary ELL multilingual students completely prepared for the formatting and the reading, writing, listening and speaking demands of the ACCESS test? These 20 Warm Ups/Mini lessons are everything you need to prepare your TIER A students for ACCESS!

Your students will feel more confident taking ACCESS after completing these activities that focus on writing.

Your Students Will:

• Develop strategies
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice with academic content language
• Work on developing test taking skills
• Complete mini lessons and warm ups
• Have the opportunity to expand knowledge

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

What’s Included:

• 192 test prep slides written in the same formatting, structure and rigor of the ACCESS test
• Examples from "Nina" and "Elena" to mimic ACCESS
• 20 Warm Ups/Mini Lessons that focus on Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking in the four content areas (Social Studies, Math, Language Arts and Science)
• Voice recordings, visuals, graphics, multiple choice and writing assessments
• Digital AND Printable (Google Doc + PDF) STUDENT NOTE CATCHER
• Tier A rigor and leveled questions
• Tons of exposure and practice with academic content language
• Vocaroo link for students to record their speaking responses
• PERFECT for mini lessons or warm ups as well as assessment grades or progress monitoring
• Plus so much more!

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sarah A. wrote, “These were way more extensive than I thought! This gave us WEEKS of Warm Ups. I used a lot of them as rotations and pulled students into small groups for some of the slides. Everything was really well made and mimicked ACCESS really well, especially the formatting. Very glad I found these! Thank you!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Terri S. wrote, “My students enjoyed this work. I scaffolded it so that it got harder each day. Thank you for the amazing resource”

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

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Newcomer Personal Narrative Writing

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 advanced/advanced high and developing/expanding students as well as long-term ELLs⭐️

Are you searching for project-based learning opportunities for your higher level secondary ESL ELLs that are FUN and that you can use and scaffold with multilingual learns of different levels? This ZOMBIE END OF THE WORLD 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 is a ⭐️_NO PREP⭐️_ PRINTABLE PDF WORKBOOK for students and teachers! Great for small group OR whole group!

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Learn about outbreaks and survival
• Identify and write about causes and effects
• Analyze text
• Have scaffolds intermediate and advanced students
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Create a project about their own end of the world scenario and creating their own survival tool kits!
• Record themselves talking about survival in a zombie apocalypse!

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:

• Student Workbook--PDF Printable (also what the teacher will use)
• PWIM model activities
• TONS of vocabulary & visuals
• Writing scaffolds
• QR Codes for reading comprehension activities
• Science Content Vocabulary (experiments, virus, etc)
• Writing, Reading & Speaking practice
• Scaffolds for Developing/Expanding and advanced/advanced high multilingual students
• Engaging topics of zombies, survival, video games, movies and other secondary themes and visuals
• Vocaroo Recording Practice (great practice for their state language test--ACCESS--TELPAS--and more)
• Reading Practice - 3 Different Passages
• Writing Practice- Writing their own news article using sentence starters!
• Speaking Practice--Record themselves and practice writing out a constructed speaking response
• FINAL PROJECT: Create a Survival Tool Kit!

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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

Do you need a way to challenge and prepare your secondary ESL ELL multilingual learners for the TELPAS test?  These Warm Ups/Mini Lessons are the perfect way to help your students get prepared for the formatting, rigor and content of the TELPAS test!

Your students will feel more confident taking the TELPAS after completing these activities that focus on Author’s Purpose and inform.

Your Students Will:

• Develop strategies
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice using Vocaroo
• Work on developing test taking skills
• Complete mini lessons and warm ups
• Have the opportunity to expand knowledge

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

What’s Included:

• 153 TELPAS test prep Google Slides 
• 3 WEEKS of Warm-ups/mini lessons
• Sections for Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing
• Content Area questions and analysis
• Digital Student Note Catchers
• Printable student note catchers
• Teacher answer key with student response samples
• Engaging visuals, charts, graphs and more
• Directions for students to record using Vocaroo for Speaking
• Multiple choice and open ended responses and more!

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Matthew T. wrote, “Fantastic test prep for my high schoolers for TELPAS! This really mimicked the test and students were challenged. Thanks!”

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

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Newcomer Personal Narrative Writing

Are you on the hunt for a progress monitoring tool for your ESL secondary students? This resource has 13 pages of great tools to help YOU!

What’s Included:

• Progress Monitoring Tool CUSTOM made for ELL/multilingual learners with a CUSTOM rubric (tenses, sub/verb agreement, content vocab, sentence complexity)
• WIDA CAN DO Descriptor Rubric (Grades 6-8 & 9-12)
• *WIDA KEY USE RUBRIC!* NEW! (Grades 6-8 & 9-12)
• Key Use Progress Monitoring Tool
• Self Assessment tool
• Conference Notes templates
• Space at the bottom of monitoring tools for conference notes and student input

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Justin H. wrote, “I have been looking for something like this for years! I really appreciate you making this resource, and it's great to have the new WIDA Key Use information on a more user friendly rubric. Thank you!”

Everything you need to monitor your students using the WIDA Key. You don’t want to miss out on this HELPFUL resource. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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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!

Need a resource to help you progress monitor your secondary ELLs and clearly understand ELPAC Standards? This resource has it all!

This resource includes:

• Progress monitoring page
• Student self reflection
• ELPAC Standards and Descriptors
• Assessment Feedback
• ELPAC Scoring Rubric
• Teacher Conference Notes

This easy to use resource will help you assess and monitor your ELLs more efficiently and effectively!

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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Newcomer Personal Narrative Writing

Are you searching for project based learning opportunities for your ESL ELL newcomers that are FUN? This grocery store & money unit includes enough lessons to last you 3 weeks! Your beginner Newcoemr multilingual ML students will have the chance to gain valuable knowledge about a real life experience. All while working on developing skills such as budgeting, speaking, listening, research, and much MORE!

This resource uses digital Google slides and PDF printables 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
• Complete a workbook!

This unit is PACKED with activities to engage your multilingual ESL 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 grocery store and money
• BONUS: 87 page SLIFE PDF student workbook for your TRUE NEWCOMERS who need TONS of scaffolds!
• Grading Tool (PDF)
• Pacing Guide broken down in weeks and days
• Video directions (for teacher)
• Pre-Assessment and Post-Assessment
• Simple Grammar Practice & Handout
• Grocery Store & Money Vocabulary
• Writing & speaking practice
• Countable & Uncountable Nouns
• Singular and Plural Noun Practice
• Vocaroo Recordings Practice
• Reading Practice - 3 Different Passages
• Number Practice & Quantifiers 
• TEMPLATED GOOGLE SLIDES FOR STUDENT PRESENTATIONS---students will use these to create their own slideshow and practice speaking.

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This grocery store and money unit will bring some fun and engagement to your ESL 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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ESL Travel Project Bundle

Multilingual Classroom Monthly Newsletter - Editable