This packet, the second in the series of support materials for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on voyagers, contains support and enrichment activities for ELD/ESL learners.

Wheels go around is the theme of the plethora of activities to aid in the language fluency of your scholars in this unit of ESL lessons. Learners can take part in a grand conversation focused on wheels, make their own steering wheel,...

Down on the Farm is the theme of this series of ESL lessons designed to support reading, speaking, and listening skills. Over three weeks, your learners will have the opportunity to sing songs, play guessing games, create masks,...

Elvis Presley's music is the hook for this ESL lesson. Learners listen to an Elvis song, discuss the vocabulary words, and answer questions. This is a great way to have your class discuss new vocabulary.

A brief passage about the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo is accompanied by an array of language activities for ELD: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group presentation, fluency writing,...

Aid your English langauge learners with this series of grammar activities. In this National Grammar Day worksheet, learners read a passage about the importance of the day and complete a variety of different activities involving this...

What is a homograph? Develop your learners' vocabulary with a word association tool.   Language arts classes discover what a homograph is and how it can be used as a visual thesaurus. They discover the other uses for homographs...

In this ESL weather worksheet, students will use terminology specifically related to weather. Students will research 3 cities, telling about the varying weather conditions in each.

In these ESL this and that worksheets, learners enhance their understanding and correct usage for the words this and that. Students complete several sentences with the words, answer questions with the correct words, illustrate pictures...

In this ESL writing practice activity, students trace and write a set of 12 food word names. A reference web site for additional activities is given.

This multimedia activity challenges media-savvy learners to look at the critical issue concerning the inundation of technology and multitasking in the classroom, and its effects on the education of themselves and others. The tasks...

Students work on vocabulary lesson plans.

In this vocabulary worksheet, students match vocabulary to definitions of words representing math and math symbols. Students complete 20 matches total.  

In this vocabulary worksheet, students match vocabulary to definitions of words representing winter. Students complete 20 matches total.

For this vocabulary worksheet, learners match vocabulary to definitions of words representing autumn. Students complete 20 matches total.

In this opposites vocabulary worksheet, students match vocabulary to their opposites. Students complete 20 matches total on this worksheet.  

In this daily routine vocabulary worksheet, students match vocabulary to their ending words of words representing daily routines. Students complete 20 matches total.

In this ESL vacation vocabulary instructional activity, learners draw lines to connect words in each of 4 columns to make sentences about what students like to do on vacation.

Twelfth graders practice conversation skills during various warm-up activities. They ask questions of each other on a host of topics including transportation, weather, and movies.

In this family vocabulary worksheet, students match vocabulary to definitions of words representing family. Students complete 20 matches total.

For this ESL work and play worksheet, students read a list of 24 activities. Students divide them into 2 lists with the heading of "Work" or "Play."

In this ESL reading skills learning exercise, students read a tex about the Notting Hill Carnival and complete a matching vocabulary activity, complete sentences and write about a carnival or celebration in their country.

In this telling time worksheet, students work in pairs to practice telling the time they do each of thirteen activities. The worksheet is intended to be used with beginning English language learners.

The focus of this ESL worksheet is on matching verbs and pictures. Students analyze seveb pictures that depict people engaged in various activities, and match each picture to the verb that describes it.