Beat the overwhelm of teaching an absolute beginner with this downloadable checklist
Find out all the details you need to know about Task-Based language teaching, including an overview, steps to follow and activity ideas.
Working abroad as an English teacher can be tricky because most of the time you move to a new country and start teaching with limited resources available to you. You have lots of ideas and little time to be making your own resources. Between learning a new culture, getting familiarized with your new surroundings and
Here are must-have books for ESL teachers that you'll keep coming back to, regularly use as a quick reference, and provide information, knowledge, and value.
Here are my free ESL resources all in one place! Click on any images below and it will take you to my TpT store for the free download. Thanks for looking!
Advice from three ESL teachers on the things regular classroom teachers can do to help English language learners thrive in mainstream classrooms.
Working abroad as an English teacher can be tricky because most of the time you move to a new country and start teaching with limited resources available to you. You have lots of ideas and little time to be making your own resources. Between learning a new culture, getting familiarized with your new surroundings and
Try out the best ESL games for teenagers in your classes today. They're guaranteed to be fun, and it's lesson planning made easy.
Explore our comprehensive collection of classroom resources, including classroom posters, engaging activities, classroom management techniques, and more. Enhance your teaching and inspire your students with these valuable insights.
Learn three simple things you need to teach your ESL beginners right away. These include variations of introductions, classroom surroundings and basic needs
How do you teach writing to ESL students? Start with the basics! This blog post goes over the most important writing skills and writing activities to teach.
Teaching ESL/ELL students of different proficiency levels in one classroom can be tricky. Here are a few tips and strategies that will help you be organized and effective.
Eureka! You've discovered ESL beginners lessons that span over a year and engage your students through fun ESL beginner games, flashcard sets, grammar worksheets, and more.
Check out the top icebreakers and ESL activities for first day of class that will get your students talking and getting to know each other.
This is the ultimate guide to creating an ESL lesson plan because once you get the system down, it's simple, endlessly repeatable and most importantly, EFFECTIVE. Here is the key: We're going to plan it backwards.
Use a simple. five-step framework that will yield high results for your ESL students.
This resource is #1 for a reason! I almost always use graphic organizers to teach reading comprehension. I find them to be highly effective because they are
Beat the overwhelm of teaching an absolute beginner with this downloadable checklist
What to teach complete ESL beginners? Having an ESL beginner curriculum guide certainly helps! It is like a roadmap of what to teach in that first year.
English may sound daunting to English learners but it does not have to be. Use these 5 tips to teach phonemic awareness and phonics to older ESL students.
Teach how to ask and request something in a polite way using the grammar structure "Would you like...?". In this PPT you will find: - Explanation - Different ways to answer it - The use of modals: "have to", "need to", "want to" to answer the question Would you like...? - 4 different activities (mainly dialogues). Credits: Canva.com Terms of use: Purchase of this product entitles the purchaser to reproduce the pages for a single classroom/home use only. This product is protected by copyright law. Please do not claim this product as your own work. Selling any part of this resource or sharing it for free is not allowed.
Working abroad as an English teacher can be tricky because most of the time you move to a new country and start teaching with limited resources available to you. You have lots of ideas and little time to be making your own resources. Between learning a new culture, getting familiarized with your new surroundings and
Working abroad as an English teacher can be tricky because most of the time you move to a new country and start teaching with limited resources available to you. You have lots of ideas and little time to be making your own resources. Between learning a new culture, getting familiarized with your new surroundings and
How to teach grammar to ESL students? Read about inductive vs. deductive grammar teaching and get ideas for activities and games for your ESL classroom
Who knew that three simple questions could make an ESL speaking class so fun? Here is an ESL speaking game that your students will thoroughly enjoy!
Not all online resources for ESL teaching are created equal here are a few that have added value to my teaching. Learn more!
Check out the best ESL kindergarten games, activities, lesson plans, worksheets and more. Have better kindy English classes today!
Looking for vocabulary games to help your ESL students learn? Check out 3 more fun games and how they can help you make your English lessons awesome!
Check out the best ESL kindergarten games, activities, lesson plans, worksheets and more. Have better kindy English classes today!
These grammar posters include a visual for some basic ESL grammar concepts that are great for newcomers help aid with speaking and writing skills. A MUST HAVE for English teachers! They provide a clear, easy to read visual reminder for ANY Elementary English classroom (ESL &EFL). Use them all at once as classroom decor to display all year or use them according to the unit you are teaching! Each of the 24 pages focuses on one concept. What's included: Simple Present: Positive, Negative and Question forms for the verbs PLAY & BE Present Continuous: Positive, Negative and Question Forms for the verb GO Adverbs of Frequency: Adverbs to use while answering the question "How often?" Wh- Questions - What, Where, When, Why, Who, How Pronouns - Subject and Object Plural Nouns - Regular, Irregular and Unusual Articles - A/ An/ The These posters are designed to be printed on US letter size paper or A4. Print, laminate and they are ready to use! This resource is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped. This resource is also available for purchase on Teacher Pay Teachers. If you prefer to purchase it there, follow this link. How to assemble and use this resource: This is a full color pdf file. After printing the resource, I recommend laminating or framing. This increases durability and ensures that you can continue using them throughout the years! How will you receive the resource? After your payment has processed you will be redirected to a download page where you can immediately download the file and save it to your computer. You will also receive an email containing a link to the resource. * Due to the digital nature of this product. Hot Chocolate Education does NOT offer refunds. Once the product has been downloaded, it can't be returned and refunds can not be issued.
A scavenger hunt with is a fun and engaging way to help English Language Learners. They are a great way to help students learn new vocabulary.
Practice grade-level vocabulary, speaking, and writing skills with this engaging ESL activity for ELLs. This is one of the most highly recommended teaching activities for ELLs.
Discover the top 100 words your ESL students find difficult to pronounce and 16 great pronunciation activities to correct them.
Here's another reference poster from our new 'Grammar' series - this time it's about the Present Perfect tense. It'll definitely come in handy when you need to practice or review this tense
Try out Retell the Story, a speaking fluency activity for ESL students that's interesting, fun and challenging. Your students will love it!
I hope you enjoy with this activity. :) - ESL worksheets
After spending three years in Seoul, South Korea, with my family, I knew that I wanted to teach English Language Learners. (ELL) What I loved the most was teaching English to Korean children. At first I had no idea how to start but I had been an elementary teacher and special ed teacher for many years, so I started with lots of pictures of nouns and verbs and wrote my own curriculum. When I returned to the US I started teaching adults while taking many ESL classes until I finally got the job I had waited for: An ESL Resource Teacher/Specialist with the Anchorage School District. Believe it or not there were over 100 different languages spoken by students in the district so it was a true ESL program. I worked in the lowest performing elementary school in the district in the mornings and traveled to 5 other schools in the afternoons. I trained tutors and staff across the district and the state. I became a Trainer of Trainers for S.I.O.P. (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) a method for teaching ESL students. After retiring, I became an Education Consultant for a Korean Company developing their on-line English Speaking, Reading, and Writing Courses for Elementary and Middle School students. After four years I retired. I decided it was time to give TpT and blogging a try. At that time there didn't seem to be much of a market for ESL materials and honestly I knew nothing about marketing or blogging. But now I realize there is a need to know more about teaching ESL students and resources for them. What I do know for sure is that there is probably a 99% chance that those of you reading this have at least one ESL (or ELL) student in your classroom. With high stakes testing, those new to the country or English language programs are only given a 1 year grace period before those students are required to take part in those tests. I truly understand how frustrating that is for those of you who work at schools with a high number of ESL students or a sub group of enough ESL students to count towards your schools' annual yearly progress. What the research shows is that the quality of instruction is a vital factor in ESL students learning English. Well organized classrooms with ample opportunities to interact in English and practice English with both the teacher and classmates is essential. Some of you have an an ESL resource teacher in your school where your students get pulled out for an hour or more each day for intensive instruction. He or she will be a great resource for you. For others you may be looking for some materials to help your ESL students. There are some wonderful materials available that are not too expensive that your principal may be willing to purchase which I'd like to share with you. Picture Dictionaries: There are several to choose from depending on the ages of your students. If your students are literate in their first language then you may want to look at the ones that are in both English and the student's first language. I used Word by Word Basic for my learning center. It is a smaller version of their Word by Word dictionary which I used for adults. There are many options for English and other languages. Just click on the picture to find out more about it. My favorite for my primary students was the Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids. Not only is there a dictionary but there are reproducible books that have Picture/Word Cards, Worksheets, Stories and more. There are 9 themes with several lessons for each theme. My students loved this series. You can access all the components by clicking on the image below. For the Intermediate grades I used the Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids in the Content Area and reproducible books. There are Math, Science, and Social Studies units and more. Just click on the image below to learn more about these. If you are only interested in the dictionary you can click HERE. Another great resource is Rosetta Stone. Students can work at the computer during the day individually . You can learn more about it by clicking on the image below. With the ESL population growing all over the US, I decided to start creating ESL materials not only for the classroom teacher for for ESL teachers, too. I completely revised my first ESL Beginning Speaking Unit when teachers started purchasing it and started asking me if there were more lessons like that one. It actually was one of a group of 20 ESL Beginning Speaking Lessons that I just didn't get around to revising and remaking. The first was called "My Day: In the Morning". Then I created and bundled the 3 lessons: "My Day" which you can access my clicking on the image below: I incorporated the sheltered instruction strategies of a Activating Prior Knowledge (what do they already know), Building Background (pictures for new vocabulary), Guided Practice (speaking activities) and Independent Practice. Here is a sample of all the activities of "In the Morning" You can click on the image above to read all about the lessons and download the Preview file to see all the materials and activities in the Unit. Through FB I met a teacher who was beginning her journey as an ESL Resource Teacher after 20 years of teaching. Her job is so similar to the one I had in Alaska. We became instant friends and she inspired to create more lessons. Here is my new "At School" unit, which contains 4 Beginning Speaking Lessons. Each of these Unit Lessons have a Lesson plan for teaching each of the sheltered instruction strategies. You can read the description and download the preview file by clicking on the image below. I have made my lesson "My Day: In the Morning" free to my followers and viewers who have ESL beginner students in their classrooms or to ESL teachers. I hope that it will get them interacting in their new language in a fun way and on the road to achieving proficiency. I would love for you to come back and comment below to give me some feedback. Just click on the image below to download your free lesson. You may also be interested in my new Pinterest board which you can follow by clicking on the picture below. Click HERE to check out all my new Pinterest boards. Thanks for all you do to make a difference for your students. I am planning to do more blog posts about working with ESL or ELL students. If you are interested in knowing more, leave a comment below to tell me what topics your would be interested in. Thank you. Follow my blog with Bloglovin
What makes a beginner ESL lesson sticky, fun, and engaging?
