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Discussing How Plants Grow
Study how plants grow with your English language learners with a cross-curricular lesson revolving around pumpkins. These activities provide opportunities to practice new scientific vocabulary while practicing skills such as estimating...
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Improving Elementary Reading Literacy
Students enhance their literary skills through phonemic awareness. For this reading development lesson, students read several storybooks and analyze the phonetics, vocabulary, and overall story. The students then rewrite what they have...
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Pronouns
As part of their English grammar study, language learners engage in the games, exercises, and activities found in a 13-page packet that focuses on pronouns.
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There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly
Here is an entertaining way to introduce your language learners to several significant grammatical structures. The children’s rhyme, There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly, contains examples of noun and relative clauses for the class...
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Prepositions
Elementary schoolers view and study ten pictures of the location of a ball adjacent to a box. They decide where the ball is and match it to its appropriate preposition on the right. A good language arts lesson!
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Who Are the People in Your Family?
In this family members worksheet, students view and study eight pictures in order to choose the appropriate answer to eight multiple choice questions involving naming specific family members.
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Writing Practice: Name the Pictures
In this picture naming activity, students study 7 pictures and, using a picture name, answer the question. Example: What is this item of clothing? (It is a sock.) This is intended for ESL students.
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Word Search Fun
In this word search grid worksheet, students write 10 clues and arrange their answer boxes on the blank grid to create their own word search puzzles.
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ESL: School Vocabulary
In this ESL vocabulary instructional activity, students use a set of words given at the bottom of the page to fill in blanks in a paragraph about school. A link to audio and resources is given.
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ESL Vocabulary-Chores
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, learners study pictures showing various chores, then match pictures to chores and complete related multiple choice questions.
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Clothes
In this clothes worksheet, students unscramble the words that represent an item of clothing. Students unscramble 10 words that represent clothing.
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Beginning Sentence Completion Exercise 10
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to compete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Students answers are...
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What Do You Do?
In this occupations worksheet, students, working with two partners, view eight pictures to decide what the person in each one is doing. Students examine and study the answers given by each team member.
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Beginning Sentence Completion Exercise 6
In this online interactive grammar skills learning exercise, learners examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to compete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Students ...
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Beginning Sentence Completion Exercise 13
For this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to compete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Students answers are scored...
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Tic Tac Toe Valentine
In this Valentine activity worksheet, students complete a tic-tac-toe game by cutting out the Valentine block images and using them to play a game of tic-tac-toe.
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Can I have a Pet?
Students read the book Can I have a Pet?, by Gwendolyn Hudson Hooks. They determine which animals the main character asked to have as a pet, explain why zoo animals do not make good pets, and study the pictures to make predictions.
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ESL Halloween Communicative Vocabulary
Students practice vocabulary words associated with Halloween using flashcards.
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Newspaper in the Classroom
Newspapers aren't only for reading—they're for learning skills, too! A journalism unit provides three lessons each for primary, intermediate, and secondary grades. Lessons include objectives, materials, vocabulary, and procedure, and...
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Choose the Good Answer- Prepositions of Location
In this ESL vocabulary building worksheet, students study 7 pictures that show the position of a ball in relation to a cardboard box. Students answer 7 multiple choice questions about the pictures in which they choose the correct...
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My Worksheet: People
In this yes/no question worksheet, students study 7 pictures of people doing their jobs. Students answer the question by each picture with either "Yes he is, " or "No, he isn't."
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Lincoln's Birthday
Students in and ESL classroom discover and discuss the importance of Abraham Lincoln and why we celebrate his birthday. They study vocabulary associated with Abraham Lincoln.
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Vegetables
In this word scramble worksheet, learners choose a letter from the box to create a vegetable word. Students spell 11 vegetable words.
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The Short "O" Sound: Mom, Top, Octopus
In this language arts worksheet, students study the short sound of "O" by reading the words: mom, top and octopus. Students write each of these words 2 times, then draw an octopus and a top.