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ESL warm-up activities for students of all levels to enjoy. Spice up your teaching with fun warmers that kids, teens, and adults can enjoy.

Academic Language Teaching Ideas and strategies to use with ELL students. Learn about activities to use academic vocabulary throughout the day. #vocabulary #esol #esl #academiclanguage

A glance at ESL instruction with beginning English learners. This post shares ESOL activities for reading, writing, phonics and vocabulary.

Guessing games are a great way to practice speaking, critical thinking and vocabulary building in ESL classrooms starting from young learners through adults. Whether you are an English teacher or a parent trying to improve your child's vocabulary in a first or second language, guessing games are a MUST! Here's where to start: Ages 3-4:

Need some practical ways to get your English Language Learners speaking, listening, reading, and writing? Especially those newcomers and beginners? This blog post talks about ways to incorporate vocabulary and get your ELLs speaking using task cards. Includes activities, strategies, ideas and benefits of using them to support your teaching. #esl #eslbeginners #eslnewcomers #eslstrategies #eslactivities #eslteaching

What is Oral Language? Oral Language skills are an important component of language development. It is made up of at least five key components (Moats 2010) including phonological skills, pragmatics, syntax, morphological skills, and vocabulary. Students need opportunities throughout the day to practice their speaking and listening skills. For English Language Learners this is particularly important

Get this FREE ESL Teaching pack with speaking practice printables for Kindergarten, Elementary or Middle School students with no English who need to learn to communicate basic needs in the classroom and understand basic instructions.

Check out these 3 Fun Listening Games to help you add in specific listening practice for your ELLs.

Newcomer students receive some support from an ELD (English Language Development) teacher in most elementary schools. The majority of their time is spent in their grade level classroom. Here are some strategies for supporting a newcomer student both in their grade level classroom and areas to focus on during targeted language development lessons. Create a

Summer speaking practice for ELLs and so much more. Check out the blog post for engaging ideas and teaching resources for speaking and writing activities for your ESL classroom.

ESL Teacher blog post on teaching English Language Learners (ELLs) Reading Comprehension before, during and after reading. How to teach ELLs Reading | Reading Comprehension for ELL | ESL Reading Blog | ESL Reading Comprehension | ESL Teaching | ESL Vocabulary for Reading | ESL Teaching Reading Ideas

There are certain times during the school day, particularly during Language Arts, when students are working independently to build their reading and writing skills. So what meaningful activities can newcomers work on during this time? Here are 4 suggestions that beginning English learners can do , that require little to no support from the teacher.

Are you looking for a fun vocabulary activity for your classroom? Have you tried the Wordle game? How would you like some ideas to use Wordle in your ELA classroom? In this blog post, you will find Wordle ideas for your classroom that will engage your middle school and upper elementary students in vocabulary activities and word acquisition. Get all these great ideas for your middle school ELA classroom.

Your English Language Learners will love these ESL First Day Activities! Great for upper elementary ESL, middle school ESL, or high school ESL!

Set your ELL Newcomers up for a successful school year from the first day of school with tons of activities and supports to build vocabulary, reading, writing, oral language, and listening comprehension. Entering a classroom as a non-English speaker can be a very overwhelming experience for your ESL students, but these ELL resources will make them feel welcomed, empowered, and confident in tackling tasks in English. All resources are discounted 20% off as part of this money-saving bundle…

The main goal of our English language learner (ELL) students is to expose them to the language. That means that our lessons are rooted in teaching vocabulary words that will help students understand the words they’re hearing, reading, and writing. Unfortunately, if we only teach students vocabulary words we are doing them a disservice. Why is that? you ask – well we have to teach ELL Newcomer students how to use the words too. Read more on the blog here!

Find out the top picks for ESL kindergarten games and activities, along with lesson plans, worksheets and more for teaching young learners. Have some fun in your ESL kindergarden classes with these top recommendations for activities and games to do with your students. #kindy #kindergarten #kindergarden #eslkindergarden #eslkindergarten #teaching #teachingenglish #englishteacher #tefl #efl #tesol #tesl #education

These sentence frames for ELL or ESL students work great at a variety of levels. You can get a FREE download within the post. Great for any age or grade level – elementary, middle, or high school, event adult. Use them for a variety of topics or make your own. Kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, and fifth grade English Language Learner approved. Also great for special education. #Elementary #SpecialEducation #ELL #ESL #EnglishLanguageLearners #Writing #SentenceFrames

Inspiring Young Learners provides support, ideas, and strategies for teachers to enjoy teaching second language students and to feel confident to know exactly how to reach this diverse group of learners. Free materials and professional development videos are available as well as yearlong quality curriculum for ELL's.

This blog post shares some of my all time favorite resources to use in an elementary ESL classroom. Each one is kid tested and teacher approved.