International Boys' Schools Coalition
Empathy
Putting yourself in someone else's shoes is a common phrase we hear from time to time, but do children really understand? Explore empathy with elementary schoolers using these activities. Focusing on feelings and emotions, students role...
Scholastic
Sky
Lead your class through a writing exercise that explores personification. After listening to the teacher read a poem that personifies the sky, they go step by step through the writing their own personification poems.
Curated OER
Storytelling: Carnival Crime
Learners participate in the storytelling process. In this language arts lesson plan, students listen to a story and retell the story using pictures. Learners draw pictures of a carnival costume.
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Reading and Comprehension: UFOS
In this interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students read two short entries about UFOS. They match the text with the pictures that go with the story and write the letter in the box at the end of each. They enter their answers by...
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Conversation Exercises: "So Do I" or "Neither Do I"
In this online conversation exercise worksheet, students read how to use "So do I!" and "Neither do I!" They complete complete 8 sentences by listening to the sentences and responding. They choose the correct response in each of 12...
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Listening Exercise
In this conversation activity, students match conversations with the pictures they see. Students complete 4 matches on this activity.
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Daily Routines
Start by listening to a short video involving conversation and dialogue. Listeners complete a variety of grammar tasks around the topic of daily routines. They complete seven lines of dialogue with 11 appropriate time periods. They also...
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Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
Students dictate a story to the teacher. They practice key vocabulary. They be exposed to the language experience approach to writing. They watch a video as a listening exercise.
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Walk and Talk Health and PE Activity
Students practice concepts they are studying while exercising. In this health and fitness lesson, studnets walk and job while discussing current classroom lessons.
Novelinks
The Dark Is Rising: Guided Imagery
To launch a reading of The Dark is Rising, the second novel in Susan Cooper's award winning contemporary fantasy novel sequence for young adults, class members engage in a guided imagery exercise that asks them to visualize the setting...
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Listening for Tone
Students read and listen to various poems as they are read by different readers using different tones. They read "Jabberwocky" and in groups, determine what they think the nonsense words in the poem mean. The groups compare thier ideas...
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ESL/EFL Comprehension: Water Supply Returns to Chinese City
In this ESL/EFL comprehension worksheet, students read or listen to an article entitled, "Water Supply returns to Chinese City." They participate in discussion activities, and written exercises. They complete fill in the blank, true or...
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Running Out of Time: The Cloze Procedure
Determine if the reading level of Running Out of Time is too easy, to difficult, or just right for your pupils with a cloze reading exercise. After listening to the teacher read the passage, learners fill in the blanks on the cloze...
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Idioms
Use this podcast lesson to familiarize scholars with the characteristics, history, and cultural implications of idioms. As part of the Walking Classroom curriculum, kids listen to a 12-minute podcast as they walk around campus. If you...
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Poetry/Music: Let It Snow!
Students create poems and sound compositions using instruments, sounds, and pictograph notation. After listening Debussy's Children's corner suite, they brainstorm a list of snow vocabulary words. Students write poems and in groups...
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Lady Gaga: Famous People, ELL Assignment
Lady Gaga is the focus of this lengthy assignment for English learners. More than 10 exercises address reading and listening comprehension, speaking skills, vocabulary acquisition, grammar and more! A thorough worksheet. Answers are...
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The Old Man and the Sea: Guided Imagery
What do you imagine when you think of the sea? Put on some ocean sounds, close your eyes, and listen to a guided meditation based on the imagery from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. After class members listen to the...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Silly Stories: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)
ESL/ELD learners are provided extra support with the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on silly stories by this packet of activities, exercises, and practice sets.
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Listen and Tick
In this ESL listening worksheet, students use the interactive website to listen to each spoken word and mark the correct picture. Students complete 14 multiple choice questions and click "done" to self check when completed.
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The Cat Came Back
In this listening comprehension interactive worksheet, students listen to the song "The Cat Came Back" and fill in the missing lyrics. There are 20 missing words to fill in.
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Irregular Past Simple
In this irregular verbs in the past simple tense worksheet, students unscramble verbs, write verbs in past simple, write verbs after listening, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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Doodles
Here is a fun drawing activity that is sure to develop listening, shape recognition, drawing, skills and eye-hand coordination. The class doodles over an entire page based on the instructions they are given. This resource includes...
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Introduce Vocabulary: From Tadpole to Frog (Pfeffer)
Take an amphibious journey with budding readers as you explore vocabulary in Wendy Pfeffer's informative book From Tadpole to Frog. This text is the backdrop of a vocabulary exercise based on six words: fertilize, gills, hatch,...
English Grammar
Gerund or Infinitive – Fill in the Correct Form
Middle schoolers love listening to music, and they also love to listen to music. So what's the difference? Spell out the nuanced ways to use gerunds and infinitives with a 50-question grammar exercise. Given short sentences and verbs,...