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Guided Reading: Family Picnic
Young scholars blend phonemes. In this guided reading lesson, students create words by blending isolated phonemes. Young scholars read a book discussing families.
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Guided Reading: Jump Rope
Young scholars blend phonemes to decode words. For this guided reading lesson, students evaluate different comprehension strategies to aid reading. Young scholars make predictions based on picture clues and use patterned sentences...
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Brushing Teeth Halts Heart Disease
Ninth graders examine the causes and effects of Heart Disease. In this ESL Current Events lesson, 9th graders read an article on Heart Disease. Students complete guided questions on the reading.
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How Weather Affects Our Lives
English learners practice basic weather terms from listening to two books. They keep a daily weather record for two weeks to record the type of weather, as well as the high and low temperatures for each day. Next, they complete a simple...
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Guided Reading: Cold and Hot
Explore the text, Cold and Hot, with comprehension strategies for young readers. First, give them a purpose for reading: find out what the boy wore outside in the snow! Then have them use one-to-one matching and picture clues to...
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Breaking News English: Boy Aged 9 to Study Maths at University
In this English worksheet, students read "Boy Aged 9 to Study Maths at University," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Vocabulary Quiz: Who Am I? Jobs and Professions
In this careers worksheet, students complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about jobs and professions. Students read a clue to a person's career and mark the most logical answer.
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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
Students examine the experience of Chinese American immigrants in the PBS series BECOMING AMERICAN. ESL learners investigate and explore their own identities within a multicultural context.
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Azùcar!
Students engage in a lesson which honors the Latino community as part of Thirteen/WNET's annual celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. They utilize worksheets and access websites imbedded in this plan which guide their learning.
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One Story, Many Tales
High schoolers compare and contrast Cinderella stories. In this folktale activity, students discuss the attributes of the genre and then read and research different cultural versions of the tale. High schoolers present their findings to...
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Holidays Are a Waste of Time!
For this holiday worksheet, students, with a partner, examine, discuss and complete a variety of activities involved with celebrating holidays.
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Temperature and the Tomato
You will need a photovoltaic system and monitor at your school in order to obtain all of the data required to thoroughly implement this lesson. Your class monitors daily temperature and insolation amounts over a two week span of time....
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The Family
Students investigate family organization and create a family unit. They decide the relationships, make ID's, and makes a family tree. They introduce their family units to the others in the class while the teacher takes family pictures....
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Countries
In this country names worksheet, students list one country name for each letter of the alphabet. The directions caution students to find country names, not city names.
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Cities
In this vocabulary worksheet, students fill in a chart with a city name for each letter of the alphabet. The worksheet is intended for use with English language learners.
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Transport: Vocabulary
In this transport and vocabulary worksheet, students discuss all the different types of transportation available worldwide. They complete fill-in-the-blank and matching activities in order to expand their transportation methods vocabulary.
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All Change!
In this language arts worksheet, students examine, discuss, and complete a variety of different activities associated with the word "change." Students consider the meaning of many phrases that contain the word "change," such as; "Change...
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Christmas: Conversation
In this Christmas conversation worksheet, students read and discuss fourteen key questions regarding Christmas and past Christmas celebrations. The conversation starters could also be used as writing prompts.
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Contemporary Mexican and Puerto Rican Immigration
Students in an ESL classroom compare and contrast Puetro Rican and Mexican cultures. In groups, they research the reasons why people leave one country for another and how to obtain a visa. As a class, they brainstorm a list of the...
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Big Snowball Fight
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Big Snowball Fight. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions,...
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New Year Celebrations in Korea
Students investigate the New Year's holiday looking at the American tradition in comparison to Korea. This helps to point out the qualities of the holiday for those who live in Korea.
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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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Disneyland Celebrates 50th Birthday
In this current events worksheet, students read an article about Disneyland celebrating its' 50th birthday and answer eight true or false questions, 10 synonym matching questions, and 10 phrase matching questions based on the article.
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Prince Charles To Remarry Article
In this British history worksheet, students read an article about Prince Charles and his engagement to Camilla Parker Bowles. Students answer eight true or false questions, 10 synonym matching questions, and 10 phrase matching questions...