National Education Association
Racial Justice in Education Resource Guide
Strive for racial justice within your classroom community with help from an 80-page resource guide. Five modules move scholars through thoughtful, and reflective grand conversations to making a plan, then taking action. Learners write...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Animals (Animales): Listening Dialogs
At this site designed for Spanish-speaking English language learners, students listen to two short dialogs about pets. They can also read the second dialog in English as they listen. Then they answer interactive questions that test their...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: School (La Escuela): Listening Dialog
This site for Spanish-speaking English language learners. Students listen to a short dialog between two students who discuss their new class schedules. Presented in both written and auditory formats, students answer comprehension...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Carol's Classroom: Speaking and Listening: Prepare for Discussions
This video lesson [4:11] focuses on clear communication and active listening, essential social-emotional skills, that help lay the foundation of positive learning environments. They can develop these skills and take responsibility for...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Shopping (Compras) Listening Dialogs
At this site designed for Spanish speakers of English, students listen to a conversation between a shopper and a store clerk. Then they answer questions that test their listening and comprehension skills. Instructions are in Spanish.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Conversation Starters
This social listening exercise reinforces the importance of taking turns when conversing and of initiating social conversations. Students listen to audio clips of typical greetings and farewells and then choose an appropriate response.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Family Relationships
This site has a question-and-answer exercise that reinforces social listening and basic social skills. Students listen to a question in a conversation and then choose the best response from the three choices given. Designed especially...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Introductions
This site has a question-and-answer exercise that reinforces social listening and basic social skills. Students listen to a social question and then select the appropriate response from the three given. Designed especially for English...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Back to School: Activity Starters: Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience watching Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Back to School: Activity Starters: Clifford
Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience watching Clifford The Big Red Dog.
Success Link
Success Link: Inside Outside Show and Tell
A different take on Show and Tell that emphasizes speaking and listening skills and will engage all the learners in this kindergarten tradition.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: A Splash of Mink Lesson Plan
In the animated 11-minute story "A Splash of Mink," from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, Molly and Trini must find a remedy after being sprayed by a mink. Despite getting advice from various sources about how to get rid of the...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: People (La Gente)
Students listen to a conversation that uses simple words to describe two different people. They then complete an exercise to test their comprehension. Designed for Spanish-speaking English language learners, this exercise reinforces...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Collection
This Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood collection emphases social-emotional development and academic success. Research tells us that for children to be successful in school, they must be mentally healthy and they must have good interpersonal...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Teaching Guides for K 5
Guides for teaching life skills that range from trustworthiness to conflict resolution. These guides were created for use with a set of videos, "The Six Pillars of Character," but most of the information and ideas can be used without...
Other
Ntlf: Class Participation Assessment Rubric
This rubric is a means of restricting the subjective element in an assessment process of a Socratic dialogue, which inevitably has a subjective aspect. It suggests that students should be scored on the basis on the teacher's...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communication: What You Can Accomplish With Public Speaking
This lesson lists and discusses the benefits of public speaking including personal satisfaction, critical thinking, career advancement, social connections, and influence the world around you.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Music Across America
This curriculum unit devoted to the study of American music features five lesson plans that help learners identify instruments, recognize styles and genres of American music and begin to comprehend the rich diversity of American music.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Eric Carle
What do you know about Eric Carle, the author? This Carol Hurst site highlights some interesting facts about this author's life and refers to some of his books.
Success Link
Success Link: Are You Talking to Me?
A lesson plan to help students interact with each other. The focus is on special education, but could be used productively in any elementary classroom.
Starfall
Starfall: Greek Myths: The Wooden Horse
The story of the how men hid inside a wooden horse in order to get into the city of Troy. Look at the illustrations and read the text, or click on a button to hear the story read aloud.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Future Possible Selves
In this lesson plan, students create future-self plans. When presented with the idea of future possible selves, students have the opportunity to identify who they want to be.
PBS
Pbs: Simple Games That Explore Feelings
Identify and explore a wide range of human emotions and then participate in a classroom parade dramatizing emotions through body movements and facial expressions.