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International Dance Day: Reading and Activities for ELD
A brief passage about International Dance Day, April 29, is accompanied by an array of language activities based in sound ELD practice: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group...
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"Just Cruising"
Practice writing the same number sentence in a variety of ways. Learners will explore math cruise ship problems to write equivalent sentences. Then complete word problems which have been included in multiple languages.
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World Teachers' Day
Practice reading comprehension by having your class read a factual passage about World Teachers' Day and mach phrases, fill in the blanks, identify correct grammar usage, unscramble vocabulary words, sequence sentences from the passage,...
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Gerunds and Infinitives
Learning proper grammar rules for a middle school student can be difficult, especially in a texting world, but this resource demonstrates how the verb changes by adding a gerund or infinitive. Keep up the texting, but use this to...
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Affirmative Sentences
In this affirmative sentences learning exercise, 1st graders read ten affirmative sentences and then write the negative equivalent to each affirmative sentence.
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ESL Picture/Idiom Matching Worksheet
In this ESL picture to idiom matching instructional activity, students examine 7 small clip art images before matching them to the idioms they best represent. They work with idioms such as "blood is thicker than water," and "as you make...
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Question Tags Practice
Young grammarians complete 20 interrogative sentences by adding formulaic question tags. They use the verbs could, would or should with an appropriate pronoun in question tags to complete each sentence. Example: They would listen,...
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Teaching Debate to ESL Students
Language learners use the debate format to practice formulating, expressing, and defending their ideas. Working in teams, class members develop resolutions, use opinion indicators to express their opinions and reasons, and prepare...
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ESL Grammar - Comma Splice
Students fix comma splices. In this ESL lesson, students recognize comma splices and find ways to fix them. They complete a worksheet finding comma splices and correct sentences.
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Present Simple Routine Vocabulary
For this daily routine worksheet, 1st graders practice combining words from three different columns of words to create and write ten sentences describing their daily routines.
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Practice with Using Different Tenses
In this grammar instructional activity, learners choose and circle the letter of the correct tense choice that makes ten sentences grammatically correct. Students then combine four sets of sentences so that the second sentence becomes a...
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Must Not vs. Don't Have to
In this grammar activity, students rewrite fifteen sentences involving activities that some must do, must not do and ones we don't have to do.
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Adjectives and Writing
In these English Language writing with adjectives worksheets, students use each picture to identify the adjective and then write a sentence containing the adjective.
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ESL Verb Writing
In these verb and writing worksheets, learners use the pictures of the various actions to help them write sentences about the actions in each picture.
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ESL Writing Wizard: Rhyming
In this ESL writing practice worksheet, students trace and then write sentences with rhyming words, filling in words that rhyme with words shown in all caps.
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ESL: My Favorite Film Writing Exercise
In this ESL writing worksheet, students correct mistakes in sentences about films, fill in blanks to complete sentences and write a paragraph about a favorite film.
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ESL: Simple Past Tense and Questions
In this ESL simple past tense and questions activity, students read a set of questions in the past tense and write the positive and negative sentence answers.
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ESL Guiding Writing Fill In the Blank Worksheet
In this ESL guided writing worksheet, learners complete sentences to write about their Saturday activities. They fill in blanks telling about the time they woke up, what they ate, what the did during the day, and when they went to bed.
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Upper Intermediate ESL Vocabulary- Legal and Education Vocabulary
In this ESL legal and education vocabulary worksheet, students complete 17 sentences using the proper legal and education vocabulary. They fill in the blanks in each sentence.
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Writing for Foreign Students Conjunctions
In this grammar activity, students combine six pairs of sentences with correlative conjunctions. Students also complete nine sentences with a pronoun or subordinate conjunction to complete each sentence grammatically correct.
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Folk Tales for ESL Students
Using the folk tale "The Man, The Boy, and The Donkey" (linked in the instructional activity) and a SMART board, teachers can help pupils access multiple skills. Reading the story allows learners to create a timeline of the sequence of...
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ESL: Around Town Matching
Tiny pictures of buildings found around town can be matched with their names in this exercise for beginning English Learners. Indefinite articles are included with vocabulary; nice way to reinforce the "a/an" rule. Pictures are quite...
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ESL: Body Parts Matching
Match drawings of basic body parts with their names. A handy tool for teachers of beginning ELLs.
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ESL: Present Perfect Negative
In this ESL present perfect negative worksheet, students look at pictures and write negative sentences in the present perfect tense about each, then write 10 additional sentences in the same tense.