ESL Newcomer Tips!
This teacher has some great ESL Newcomer ideas!
Grab a cup of tea and enjoy!
Happy Teaching!
Lori
Hi and welcome to Fun To Teach! I’m Lori and I am glad your here. I love creating and sharing resources, teaching tips and tricks and connecting with teachers like you! Thanks for visiting!
January 23, 2018
January 19, 2018
💕Friday Freebie!💕
Hello everyone,
It is Friday and time for a freebie!
Are you ready for a fun and free Venn Diagram with a bit of a twist? Well here you go!
Click here!
2 Square Venn Diagram - Graphic Organizer
Students use this 2 squared graphic organizer to respond to literature.
Compare and contrast 2 characters in a story, 2 different settings, or 2
events. Use this great Venn Diagram before, during and after reading
to solidify student comprehension
Graphic organizers are great group or individual work activities as a response to literature during independent reading, interactive
reading, or shared reading.
Graphic Organizers help students develop higher level thinking skills and promote creativity. They are handy tools for classroom use that guide students through the process of organizing information. Graphic organizers make logic out of language and help students summarize and interpret text. Graphic Organizers are excellent tools that promote high-level active thinking in the classroom.
Critical Thinking and Active Learning materials for:
-Reading Comprehension
-Math
-Social Studies
-Science
-Art
-Conflict Resolution
SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS:
Graphic organizers make content area information more accessible to second language learners. The Venn Diagram can change complex language into language that is comprehensible. This is a perfect visual tool that helps ELLs and all students understand and organize information.
Click here for your freebie!
Happy teaching!💕
Are you ready for a fun and free Venn Diagram with a bit of a twist? Well here you go!
Click here!
2 Square Venn Diagram - Graphic Organizer

Graphic organizers are great group or individual work activities as a response to literature during independent reading, interactive
reading, or shared reading.
Graphic Organizers help students develop higher level thinking skills and promote creativity. They are handy tools for classroom use that guide students through the process of organizing information. Graphic organizers make logic out of language and help students summarize and interpret text. Graphic Organizers are excellent tools that promote high-level active thinking in the classroom.
Critical Thinking and Active Learning materials for:
-Reading Comprehension
-Math
-Social Studies
-Science
-Art
-Conflict Resolution
SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS:
Graphic organizers make content area information more accessible to second language learners. The Venn Diagram can change complex language into language that is comprehensible. This is a perfect visual tool that helps ELLs and all students understand and organize information.
Click here for your freebie!
Happy teaching!💕
January 11, 2018
Why you should use songs in your ELD lessons!
Hi everyone,
I love using songs and chants during my lessons.
Much of the input students receive during ELD is visual. Songs and Chants offer another venue for students to learn the lesson objective through music and rhythm.
As an ANTICIPATORY SET, Songs and Chants hook the students. They can set the stage for your lesson and emphasize your language objectives.
Songs and Chants provide the ENGAGEMENT AND MOTIVATION all within the context of learning. Songs and Chants give meaning to students and they relax as they sing and play.
Songs and Chants can trigger emotions and lower AFFECTIVE FILTERS. Students socialize through Songs/Chants. They can listen to themselves sing, and practice the reproduction of English songs while enjoying the rhythm. Finally, Songs and Chants help second language learners express their feelings.
Songs and Chants can be a perfect addition to any lesson!
Have fun!
Happy Teaching! Lori
I love using songs and chants during my lessons.
Much of the input students receive during ELD is visual. Songs and Chants offer another venue for students to learn the lesson objective through music and rhythm.
As an ANTICIPATORY SET, Songs and Chants hook the students. They can set the stage for your lesson and emphasize your language objectives.
Songs and Chants provide the ENGAGEMENT AND MOTIVATION all within the context of learning. Songs and Chants give meaning to students and they relax as they sing and play.
Songs and Chants can trigger emotions and lower AFFECTIVE FILTERS. Students socialize through Songs/Chants. They can listen to themselves sing, and practice the reproduction of English songs while enjoying the rhythm. Finally, Songs and Chants help second language learners express their feelings.
Songs and Chants can be a perfect addition to any lesson!
Have fun!
Happy Teaching! Lori
This 51-page collection of ELD and ESL songs and black lines are perfect for every classroom with second language learners. Open every lesson with a song or chant from this rich collection of ELD based lyrics and watch your students' fluency grow. Volume I includes 22 songs/ chants, lesson ideas and activities that will raise the oral academic language of your students to new heights. The songs and chants are sung to familiar popular songs or the lyrics are used in call backs or chant style tunes. These lyrics provide a compelling way to begin your ELD lesson while targeting complex English Structures. You and your students will enjoy these engaging and memorable lyrics.
Songs and Chants for:
Possessive Pronouns
Reflexive Pronouns
Present Tense Questions
Regular Past Tense Verbs
Past Tense Questions
Present Perfect
Prepositions
Language levels included:
Beginning
Intermediate
Advanced
January 6, 2018
💜Martin Luther King Word Wall Cards💜
💜Hello everyone.
Get your students ready to celebrate Martin Luther King with
this engaging MLK Martin Luther King word wall from Fun To Teach.
This Packet includes 50 word wall cards, 3 alphabet headers, and an assortment of
activities you can use with your students.
As teachers we know that word walls provide a systematic visual organizer that aides children in
seeing and remembering connections between words and the characteristics that
help them form categories and schemas to remember how to use them.
🚀Support student writing by using this MLK word wall as an
organized group of large print words posted on your bulletin board or wall in
your classroom. Word walls draw attention to the words you are teaching and are
used in whole class or small group activities.
So easy, just copy, cut and post.
The phrases and words that I included in this packet are:

🎆A
word wall is most effective when it becomes an interactive part of the classroom. With that in mind I added some fun and
engaging games and activities to this packet.
One of my favorites is called - Slap It!
Here are the guidelines for this game…you can play it with any
vocabulary theme! Simple, fun and
effective!
Slap
It! .............
🙏🏿Slap It! is a fun game you can play with
children that will help them associate and reinforce MLK Word Wall
Play in groups of 2 or 3.
Have word wall cards
for each group.
Lay the cards face up on the table so that each
player can reach them. Players sit with their hands on their head. Call out the
word. The first to slap the vocabulary word gets to keep it.
If a player slaps the wrong card, they must sit
out the next round.
The winner😜 is the person to collect the most
cards.
This is a great Martin Luther King packet to use as a vocabulary
graphic organizer with your students. Just copy onto colored paper and cut and
you have your word wall ready to go!
‼️Remember that
graphic organizers help students develop higher level thinking skills and
promote creativity. They are handy tools for classroom use that guide students
through the process of organizing information. Graphic organizers make logic
out of language and help students summarize and interpret text. Graphic
Organizers are excellent tools that promote high-level active thinking in the
classroom.
•Reading Comprehension
•Math
•Social Studies •Science
•Art
•Conflict Resolution
SECOND LANGUAGE
LEARNERS:
Graphic organizers
make content area information more accessible to second language learners.
Graphic/visual organizers can change complex language into language that is
comprehensible. These are perfect visual tools that help ELs and all students
understand and organize information.
So
what are you waiting for⁉️⁉️ Jump on over
to Teachers Pay Teachers (click here) and check out this super MLK package…it
needs to be in your toolbox today!
Happy
Teaching!
Lori
Wolfe
January 5, 2018
💕Friday freebie!💕
Community People Word Wall Freebie!
Happy New Year from Fun To Teach!
Kinder to 2nd grade
This word wall contains words and pictures related to Community People.
This freebie is the word wall portion from our Community People Kindergarten Kit complete packet. I am offering this for free so you can sample some of my work!
This freebie is the word wall portion from our Community People Kindergarten Kit complete packet. I am offering this for free so you can sample some of my work!
This
word wall contains 12 words and pictures related to Community People. The pictures are perfect for both the
basic education classroom, ESL, speech and autism/ESE classroom.
Community People Word Wall pages includes:
·
alphabet
headers
·
activities
Use these to teach CommunityPeople vocabulary, during reading centers, use in wall charts or posted on the wall. You can even cut off the word and have the student match the word to the picture.
You will find many uses for these versatile words and pictures. These word cards are great for a theme wall, flashcards to send home or use as a matching game. Spice-up your Community People with this great word wall packet.
Words included in this packet are:
Astronaut
Bus driver
Captain
Cyclist
Fireman
Flight attendant
Garbage collector
Pilot
Police officer
Taxi driver
Train engineer
Trucker
Lori
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