ESL/ELD: Learning about Ash Wednesday

An overview of the history and tradition of Ash Wednesday in 2 paragraphs is accompanied by an array of language activities: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group presentation, fluency writing, and homework/extension ideas. Links to an audio clip of the passage and an interactive multiple choice sequencing activity in which readers reconstruct the passage phrase by phrase.