Explore a 1900s lunch pail. In this oral language and 1900s history lesson, young scholars view a photograph of an old-fashioned lunch pail. Students describe the object and make predictions about what it is and its possible uses. Young...

The value of this punctuation and grammar lesson is in the SMART board presentation, which takes pupils through the proofreading process. It would be a good way to introduce the idea of proofreading in your class before beginning a unit...

Have your ESL learners practice their written and oral English grammar skills, with this highly engaging ESL Lesson. Budding grammarians mingle across the room discovering what they each know about the Royal Wedding between Kate and...

Read the story Green Eggs and Ham to practice phonemic awareness, rhyming, and writing skills with emerging readers. They will match oral words to printed words, create a graphic organizer, and the use rhyming words in an...

Middle and high school pupils write about three scenarios using the proper French vocabulary. They develop a fashion show, a clothing store, and a crime scene using only French vocabulary. They draw and label five outfits and present a...

Introduce your language students in German class to the European Union, including the historic developments, the current structure, and some of the political and social principles behind it with this lesson. In small groups, learners...

The world is full of possibilities for your ELLs. Help them explore their career options with a lesson that incorporates Internet research and expository writing. Not only will they learn more about their careers of choice, but both...

Music around the globe may sound different, but it always tends to function partly as a mode of communicating religion, rights of passage, and oral tradition. Delve into the world of Russian music. Folk, peasant, Cossack, and...

Yo estaba en mi casa cuando Juan...me llamó! Sing this catchy tune with your young Spanish speakers, and have them say the words along with you to practice oral fluency! Consider extending this activity by asking your class to write a...

Use this as an introduction to telling time in Spanish. Your beginning Spanish speakers match 10 digital and analog clocks with the Spanish time expression. Include some oral practice through call-and-response to reinforce the new...

These animals need to find their homes! Young scholars help them by drawing lines from each animal on the left to its habitat on the right. There is no guessing to be done here, though; pairs are directly across from one another. They...

Where is the mouse? Young learners look at eight images featuring a mouse and another object, determining his relative location. Is he behind the object? If he is, they put a check mark in the box. If not, they leave it blank. Encourage...

Build oral fluency for your beginning Spanish speakers. First they take the words from the word bank and place them in the correct sentences. Then they think of other words that begin with the letters ha, he, hi, ho, and hu. After they...

Work a few of these activities into your unit on jobs and professions for beginning French speakers. This teacher's guide focuses on feminine and masculine word endings, and introduces the teacher to different opportunities for oral...

Before presenting the material to your classes, review different constructions of the conditional tense. This teacher's guide provides several examples and role-play opportunities with your class. Dialogue to build familiarity with the...

Bring your learners together to write a class narrative about the first day of school. Start off by teaching them about sequence with a quick oral activity. Then, work together to fill out a story map. Finally, compose the class...

How do you conjugate -ar verbs? Before sending your class off with this worksheet, make sure you review the verb construction. There are 15 sentences provided here, and your pupil must place the correct verb conjugation into each blank....

Introduce your class to basic salutations in Spanish and English with a group of activities and exercises. The materials, which can be put together as a packet, include coloring pages, a matching activity, a fill-in-the-blank exercise,...

Here is a great little reading and vocabulary development activity created just for learners with special needs. The activity is constructed with both core content and necessary adaptations in mind. The group will use PECS,...

Through this set of three lessons about Ellis Island, class members will learn about why immigrants came to the United States, find out about the difficulties that went along with coming to America, become familiar with the immigration...

This is a fantastic collection of a wide variety of rubrics for writing, listening, and speaking! The resource contains over 14 rubrics for assessing such items as a summary, autobiographical sketch and narrative, speech, oral...

Suggestions for interview topics with question prompts, scavenger hunts, oral presentations, and reading and writing prompts abound in this 11-page packet of activities for English language learners. ESL worksheets are also included...

Did you know that horses have two sets of teeth?  There is much to learn about horses, of course, and those interested in equine science will learn much from a 10-lesson agricultural science course that covers not only equine dental...

Individually, letters have their own sounds, but when combined with other letters, those sounds completely change. Introduce letter combinations with a lesson that asks learners to search for combinations in familiar words and use oral...