Students use Valentine's Day to use figurative language in English. This is a great lesson for ESL students (who may not have much experience with this holiday), to engage in social conversation with their peers.

Pupils explore the diversity offered in communities. In this Teaching Tolerance lesson, students read The Gift and then interview people within their school community regarding the gifts they receive in their community.

Sixth graders investigate Civil Rights by participating in role-playing activities.  In this U.S. History lesson plan, 6th graders research the history of slavery in order to portray a story through their debating and acting...

Learners blend phonemes. In this guided reading lesson, students create words by blending isolated phonemes. Learners read a book discussing families.

Contains a plethora of elementary bilingual education lessons and activities! Includes a curriculum plan, instructional strategies, activities, suggested teacher and student materials, and more. Each unit includes a Spanish translation!

In this article, teachers will learn strategies for connecting with students' background knowledge to engage ELL students. Research is used to support the strategies, and web links are provided for additional resources to support...

Learn how one child was able to save her money up for something special. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.