Ready To Use Esl Activities For Every Month Of The School Year

This unique, hands-on resource provides more than 200 student worksheets and teacher-directed activities to help elementary students learn English as a second language. The activities provide real experiences to build students' knowledge through techniques that offer review, expansion, connection, and reinforcement. Organized into 10 monthly sections to fit the school year, Ready-to-Use ESL Activities for Every Month of the School Year helps students acquire English naturally by focusing on the how-to aspect of things, not just on how to describe them. For your convenience, the materials are printed in a big 8 1/4" x 11" lay-flat binding that opens flat for easy photocopying of activity pages for your class. Each month contains a full array of delightfully illustrated activities based on a Natural Language Acquisition approach to language development and offers more than the usual reading and writing activities; children experience art, cooking, music, gardening, and drama through Mother Goose rhymes, fairy tales, and other story frames. Teacher notes and additional activities complete each month's offering of learning experiences with reproducible pages. Book jacket.

The strategies and materials presented here provide the best of whole language and phonics instruction for setting up an appropriate, well-paced reading program that meets the needs of individual students, small groups, or the entire class, grades K-8. For quick and easy access, the Kit is organized into eight sections and includes such practical information as: * Over 80 stimulating hands-on games and activity sheets to build students' skills in letter-name knowledge, sight word recognition, word structure, and more. * Up-to-date information and materials for teaching reading to students with special needs * Comprehensive lists of fiction and nonfiction trade books that reinforce the learning of essential reading skills

Maximize the educational potential of your ESL/ELL class with this singular resource The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels, 2nd Edition offers readers a comprehensive range of instructional strategies and educational resources for teaching English. The newly revised 2nd Edition includes brand new chapters on: Working with Long-Term English Language Learners Teaching English internationally Teaching Elementary Age ELLs Teaching Adult ELLs Teaching ELLs with learning challenges Culturally Responsive Instruction Effective online instruction Working with co-teachers and para-professionals In addition to the new chapters, The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide contains updated material on topics including math, science, social studies, Common Core Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards and 150 pages of new, highly engaging content. An essential resource for anyone involved in teaching English as a Second Language to students of all ages, this book is perfect for general education teachers and ESL specialists for students in grades six through twelve. It’s also highly instructive for teachers of adult ESL classes, elementary and teacher educators, and resource specialists.

Help ELLs achieve success with an integrated, collaborative program! This resource provides a practical guide to collaboration and co-teaching between general education teachers and ESL specialists to better serve the needs of ELLs. Offering classroom vignettes, step-by-step guidelines, ready-to-use resources, and in-depth case studies, the authors help educators: Understand the benefits and challenges of collaborative service delivery Teach content while helping students meet English language development goals Choose from a range of collaborative strategies and configurations, from informal planning and collaboration to a co-teaching partnership Use templates, planning guides, and other practical tools to put collaboration into practice

A world list of books in the English language.

This remarkable resource gives ESL teachers working with the four million Limited English Proficient (LEP) students in our public schools 178 tested lessons and over 200 illustrated activity sheets to help students develop the knowledge, vocabulary, and practical skills they need to succeed in school and in life. For easy use, the lessons and activities are organized into two parts. Part I, Personal Life Skills, focuses on the life skills necessary to succeed and function in the everyday world of American society. Part II, School and Academic Skills, provides information about life in American schools and basic academic content including an extensive "Introduction to Literacy". Each lesson is complete and ready-to-use, including objective, new vocabulary, materials needed, teaching note, step-by-step directions, extensions, and one or more reproducible activity sheets. The activity sheets can be used independently ("Dialing the Operator") or as part of a larger unit ("Personal Communication").