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Telephone Messages
Students practice having telephone conversations. They create their own phone message after practicing with each other. They also identify the different parts of a telephone.
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New Year Celebrations in Japan
Students are introduced to the way the Japanese celebrate the new year. Using the internet, they compare and contrast the celebrations in Japan with those in Korea. After being read a story, they complete a worksheet on the series of...
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Pumpkin Science
Students investigate how plants grow by analyzing pumpkins. In this agricultural lesson, students read The Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Steven Kroll, and draw pictures of a pumpkin in each of its growing stages. Students measure and dissect...
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Are Cellphones Killing Honeybees?
Students read an article about how honeybee are sensitive to the electromagnetic fields generated by cellphones. For this ESL lesson, students work as partners to complete a table of information relating to the many bee species in...
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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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Nationalities 2
In this social studies activity, students consider where people of different nationalities come from. Students read 20 terms of nationality and write the country where that person would live. Example: A Finn comes from (Finland).
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Unhealthy Breakfast
In this healthy diet activity, students read a text about a businessman who routinely eats an unhealthy breakfast. Students answer 5 true/false questions and then write a conversation between the man and his doctor.
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Exploring The Everglades
Fifth graders apply basic Internet navigation and computer skills to complete a scavenger hunt about the Everglades, after reading the book, Everglades, by Jean Craighead George.
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Beans Are Seeds
Second graders read literature regarding the growth of seeds. They investigate how seeds need water and light to sprout and then grow. They experiment by planting their own bean seeds. They record the progress of their seeds in both...
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Appreciating the Language and Interpreting the Meaning of Hamlet's Soliloquy
Students analyze Hamlet's soliloquy, "To be or not to be." In this Hamlet lesson, students define unfamiliar words in the soliloquy and interpret the lines. Students then read the lines aloud and identify descriptive words. Students...
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Spice Up the Basal
Fifth graders study English reading and writing skills as they participate in exciting interdisciplinary hands-on activities using a basal reading series.
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Designing a Travel Brochure
Pupils discuss a story they had read earlier about a girl moving from China to New York. Using the internet, they research a country other than their own and take notes on the information they collect. They create a travel brochure for...
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Transportation Essay
In this essay writing worksheet, students read the prompt about how transportation affects daily life for many people. Students write an essay about transportation and the role it has in their lives.
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Telling Time
Students tell time. In this ELL vocabulary development and math lesson, students orally tell time to five minute intervals when shown a classroom clock. Students practice using number and "telling time" vocabulary in sentences and...
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Batter Up
Students explore personal achievement by reading a children's book. In this story analysis lesson, students read the book Batter Up, by Sue Muller Hacking and discuss the main character in the story and the actions that she takes to meet...
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Punctuation and Book Titles
Students participate in lessons that focus on reading and writing skills. They work on punctuation in sentences with book titles present and not present. The lesson has a scaffolding section for ESL. This strategy is usually applicable...
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Who's Inside the Mitten?
Pupils read "The Mitten", by Jan Brett. They discuss vocabulary presented in the story and sequence significant plot events. They make masks to represent several of the characters and act out the story.
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Lesson on Superlatives
Young scholars practice basic Internet navigation skills, find and summarize information on a Web site, and explore tenement life in the 19th and early 20th Century.
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The Wiggles
In this ESL worksheet, students listen to a short story and then correct the mistakes in 7 related statements. Students also match 6 statements to their characters and fill in 8 missing words in a written version of the story.
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What Do I Need to Bring?
Students build their vocabulary skills by answering the question; "What do need to bring?" In this ESL lesson, students create several different graphic organizers to help them categorize vocabulary concepts. Then they read a handout,...
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HIV/AIDS: Our Fear, Our Misery
Students in an ESL classroom brainstorm their thoughts, fears and perceptions about HIV/AIDS. In groups, they review how one contracts the virus and how it affects them and their families. They read true stories about people living...
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Water/Agua
Third graders complete water activities including vocabulary, visualization and performing activities. They study water vocabulary words in both English and Spanish. They listen to a read aloud of Jane Yolen's, Letting Swift River Go,...
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Action Noun Collocation Crossword Puzzle
In this action nouns worksheet, students read ten clues pertaining to action nouns such as cleaning, brushing, teaching. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle.
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Will You Mast English?
In this ESL worksheet, students ask a partner 20 questions. For example, "Do you have any English speaking friends?" and "Have you ever sung an English song at karaoke?"