ESL Newcomer Tips!

ESL Newcomer Tips!

This teacher has some great ESL Newcomer ideas!
Grab a cup of tea and enjoy!


Happy Teaching! Lori

💕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!
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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.

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Happy teaching!💕

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

Check out our great ESL & ELD Songs and Chants Volume ISING IT LOUD! SING IT CLEAR!

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

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💜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:

African-American, America, assassinated, black, bigotry, boycott, change, civil rights, courage, demonstration, dream, Dr. King, equality, fairness, free, freedom, great, hatred, history, holiday, honor, human rights, I have a dream, inequity, intolerance, jail, January 15, justice, King, leader, march, memorial, minister, murdered, Nobel peace prize, nonviolent, organize, peace, peaceful, prejudice, race, racism, rights, Rosa Parks, segregation, slavery, speech, struggle, tolerance, unfairness, and vote.

🎆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

Happy Teaching! Lori

💕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 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:

·      Community People Word Wall cards,

·      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

Click here to download this great freebie!

Happy teaching!💕
Lori