This worksheet contains 18 conversation cards, a vocabulary matching exercises and a small family tree. The cards can be cut out if desired and be used as conversation questions. Can be used with both young learners and adults (elementary to intermediate). - ESL worksheets

Have students write about and take pride in their culture! -tap into background knowledge -discuss aspects of culture -embrace each child's unique identity...

Anger is probably the #1 issue the kids I work with deal with. In this post you will find many great links, worksheets, and resources for addressing anger in children of all ages. One of my favorit…

Trace then write the words themselves in this AT Word Family Trace and Write printable worksheet.

Worksheet that focuses on family and relatives (father, mother, daughter, uncle, cousin etc.).Also includes a family tree that needs to be completed; this should give students a better insight in the maze of family vocabulary. - ESL worksheets

PDF of a great poster you can print for your office or classroom :)

An elementary text about family and family members. I added multiple reading comprehension tasks. - ESL worksheets

This boardgame can be used either as a warm-up activity or as a winding-up one while talking about family. The questions are supposed to encourage students to discuss family matters. Each question should be followed by more questions asked by students. - ESL worksheets

This boardgame can be used either as a warm-up activity or as a winding-up one while talking about family. The questions are supposed to encourage students to discuss family matters. Each question should be followed by more questions asked by students. - ESL worksheets

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Are you working on instrument families while studying instruments of the orchestra?This set can be used as individual assignments or quizzes or can be put together in a workbook for your students.Many of these pages are great to leave for substitutes as well!Included in this set:- A list of websites...

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Here’s a free printable comic I made to teach kids (and many grownups) how to apologize properly. Teachers and parents, you can download it here and print it for school or home use (no commercial uses allowed). For more free printable posters, visit my boutique in the […]

Use these social skills visual posters to teach, discuss, and practice social skills in the classroom! They include 9 unique posters with a total of over 80 social skills. Each poster highlights a different area of social skills, including basic skills, empathy and perspective-taking, academic skills, conversation skills, friendship skills, emotions, and decision-making skills. These posters are a fun way to integrate social skills and SEL in the classroom! Additional posters are included with several of the skills put together in one large poster. They highlight: Social Skills Kids Need Social Skills We All Need Social Skills We Are Building How Can I Use Social Skill Visual Posters? You can use these social skills posters in multiple ways to integrate social skills into the classroom. Here are some simple suggestions: Post these visuals around the classroom or school to provide reminders about critical social skills. Create a social skills bulletin board. Post one poster a week or month, highlighting each of the skills throughout that time period. Use the black/white version as a coloring book as you discuss each skill. Skills Targeted: Basic Skills: following directions, using manners, having a positive attitude, working with others, good hygiene, using polite words, taking turns, greetings, waiting and having patience, being a good sport, listening to others, understanding personal space Academic Skills: paying attention, starting tasks independently, taking pride in work, participating, asking for help, cooperating and collaborating, accepting criticism, self-advocating, staying organized, persevering through challenges, avoiding and ignoring distractions, presenting and speaking in front of others Conversation Skills: introductions and greetings, starting a conversation, expressing ideas and feelings, giving compliments, using active listening skills, taking turns in conversation, showing interest in others, noticing others' social cues, thinking before speaking, staying on topic, finding similar interests, leaving a conversation Friendship Skills: expressing ideas, feelings, and thoughts, getting along with others, showing interest in others, keeping social boundaries, disagreeing respectfully, compromising, sharing, bringing out the positive in others, apologizing, repairing relationships, resisting negative peer influence, showing empathy Empathy & Perspective-Taking Skills: thinking about others' feelings, reading social cues, seeing someone else's perspective, staying open-minded, helping others in need, treating others with kindness, appreciating differences, using flexible thinking, showing empathy, thinking before speaking or acting, accepting different opinions, solving conflicts with perspective-taking Emotional Skills: being self-aware, self-regulating emotions, labeling different emotions, expressing feelings, using coping strategies, dealing with disappointments, dealing with worries, using positive self-talk, staying calm in times of stress, adapting to change, dealing with anger and frustration, being resilient Decision-making Skills: understanding choices, using self-control, seeing how actions impact others, brainstorming solutions, developing healthy habits, taking responsibility, considering consequences, weighing options, admitting mistakes, being reflective, accepting consequences Digital Version A digital version for Google Slides is now included! This means you can use these posters to highlight social skills digitally with your students through Google Classroom or other digital means. Yearlong SEL Yearlong Curriculum If you are looking to integrate social emotional skills into the classroom, consider this Social Emotional Learning Yearlong Curriculum! It is filled with specific lesson plans, activities, projects, task cards, discussion starters, and more for a year of social emotional learning. Follow Me! { Click here to follow my store! } Tips for Customers: If you have questions, please contact me through Q & A and I'll get back to you as soon as I can! Please consider leaving feedback on this resource to receive TpT credits! I always strive for 5 stars and love hearing your feedback. Follow my store for notifications about new resources and freebies. Terms of Use: © Pathway 2 Success. One license is for the classroom/personal use for one educator and their students. Materials may not be shared with other educators without the purchase of extra licenses. Materials may not be posted on the Internet where they can be publicly accessed. Personal and classroom use only. Please see full terms of use for more information. Disclaimer: These resources are for supplementary support/education purposes and are not a replacement for education or other necessary supports. Educators, parents, and others who utilize these materials are encouraged to seek out additional support, as needed.

Regardless of whether you’ve just finished your first quarter parent conferences or they are coming up soon, keeping families informed about how their children are doing is of paramount importance to students’ success in school. I’ve written before about why I so enjoyed working with the parents of my English Language Learners and while communicating with non-native English-speaking parents of ELLs can be a challenge, it is also very rewarding. There are also many more tools available now than when I was in the classroom for keeping ELLs families apprised of how their kids are doing in school. Many of these tech tools have built-in translation capabilities, so there’s really no longer any excuse for not maintaining frequent contact with ELL families. Today I’d like to offer several ways you can keep ELL parents and guardians up-to-date about your classroom activities and their children’s progress in school. Of course, you can also use all these tools with native English speakers, too! Most of these ideas were mentioned in our recent #ELLEdTech Twitter chat about tech tools for communicating with parents. For the websites/apps in the list below, I added explanations from the sites themselves (hence the quotation marks) as well as my own comments. Please note that I have not used any of these apps myself to communicate with parents, other than Google Translate and my own resource mentioned at the end, but I have heard positive things about Remind, Google Voice, and Twitter from other teachers who’ve used them for this purpose. Source: The ESL Nexus Websites, Apps & Resources for Staying In Touch * Bloomz "is a new, free tool designed to help teachers, parents, and PTA members share information and photos through real-time communication and coordination. Built primarily for the K-8 environment…" You can send class updates, share photos and videos, manage events, create student portfolios, and track behavior. * brightwheel (sic) is "Designed specifically to meet the needs of early education – brightwheel was built to be your all-in-one solution." It's a program that offers ways to track enrollment, payments, food consumption, and activities as well as other things that are helpful in daycare settings. It can also send messages, reports, and photos about children's activities. * FreshGrade "is an online portfolio where teachers, students and parents all interact to capture and comment on the student's school work. The program also allows teachers to create and grade custom assignments, which are then tracked in the tool." You can create digital portfolios which can then be shared with families. A free e-book and training are also available. * Google Voice and Google Translate: My #ELLEdTech co-host, Laurah, wrote a blog post on how to use these two programs to communicate with the families of ELLs. There is also a very helpful infographic in her post that outlines the steps to follow. * Parent Hub is a way to "Engage parents with updates about the amazing things happening in your classroom." You create "channels" that group people, such as a class or an after-school club, into communities and then you send messages and attachments to them. Recipients can respond to you, too. It’s based in the European Union so privacy laws are different from those in the U.S. * Remind "is a communication tool that helps teachers connect instantly with students and parents. Send quick, simple messages to any device." You can send a text and have it translated into 70 other languages; you can also schedule when you want a text to be sent. * TalkingPoints is a “multilingual texting platform easily connects teachers and families through text messages." You send a text in English, it's translated into the family's language, they text back in their language, and that gets translated into English. * Twitter: Thanks to S@FloradTeach for recommending Twitter to send messages and photos. Tweets can be sent in real time or scheduled in advance. According to Twitter, tweets can also be translated using Bing’s translation program but they may not be 100% accurate so the original tweet is also included. I’d be curious to know if anyone has used this Twitter function; please leave a comment below if you have and let us know how well it worked. * Weekly Progress Update Forms: A TpT resource with one-page forms in English and Spanish that comes in print and Google Drive versions. Teachers fill out the forms on a weekly basis and send them home. Academic progress, homework completion, attitude, participation and behavior are noted and there is space for comments. Signed forms can be saved in folders to show progress during the course of the school year. How do you stay in touch with your ELL families and keep them up-to-date on how their children are doing in school? Please share the resources you use in the link party below! An InLinkz Link-up

This is a picture of a family at breakfast and the exercise is a true or false. They then correct the false sentences. The false sentences can be corrected by adding information, or simply by making the sentences negative. if you want to edit the ws, remove the red border, it is a shape. - ESL worksheets

Inside: Common Spanish verbs every Spanish learner needs to know, and a guide for parents teaching Spanish. The Spanish language has a lot of words. It’s impossible to calculate exactly how many, but the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (DRAE) contains about 93,000. Don’t worry, though! There’s good news for Spanish learners: only a tiny percentage

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Collective resources to study the Periodic Table of the Elements. Supplemental material to support the Classical Conversations homeschool curriculum.

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Challenge your students with these tongue twisters!!! Have tons of fun! - ESL worksheets