My #1 Ridiculously-Effective Vocab Flash Card Game for ELLs
Duration: 5-10 minutes Type: Small Groups of 3-4 What You …
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Teaching Past Tense to English Learners – Getting It Right
Help your English learners make quick gains with these engaging and effective strategies for teaching the past tense. Includes free resources you can use today.
Guide to the Writing Pages
Teacher Guides:How to Get Students WritingWhere to StartNote: Just about every …
Inspiring More “Aha” Moments from Your English Learners
Students don’t remember answers to questions they are not asking. Let’s take a look at how we can inspire tour students to wonder…
Have You Tried These 5 Quick ESL Speaking Activities with This Impressive App?
These are how-to videos for using Kid-Inspired ESL Paths to Fluency materials with Seesaw.
Effective ESL Be Verbs Lesson With Worksheets & Fun Strategies
In this helpful article, you’ll find tips, lesson plans, and resources for helping your English Learners build fluency with English be-verbs.
Teaching Phonics to ELL Beginners
Teaching Phonics to ELL BeginnersA Short Video Course Included In …
Free ESL Teaching Resource: Elementary ELL Survival English Lesson
Some newcomers arrive with no English at all and need to focus on basic classroom English first. This pack will help.
5 What About Those ESL Students Who…and a FREE Unit
1-Minute Videos, Articles & Resources for ESL TeachersWhat About Those …
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4 Breaking It Down and a FREE Speaking Resource
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3 Try This with Your ESL Students Instead…
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2 Can You Relate to This Common ESL Teaching Problem?
1-Minute Videos, Articles and Resources for ESL TeachersCan You Relate …
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How to Set Goals for ESL Students
Goal-Setting and Differentiation Series This is a series of 1-minute …
1 What do your ESL students struggle with?
1-Minute Videos, Articles & Resources for ESL TeachersWhat do your …
How to Use the Grammar Speaking Page
Speaking Activities:How to Use the Sentence Starter Speaking PagesIn the …
Guide to the Wonderfully-Useful ESL Vocabulary Pages
Inside the ESL Curriculum Membership, you’ll find incredibly versatile and …
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ESL Speaking Resource 4 Basic Tenses
Whether speaking or writing, ESL students often struggle with the basic tenses. This tool makes it fun and easy to review the present simple, present continuous, future and past simple tenses.
How to Choose ESL Materials: Look for Little Surprises
With a little color, a cute picture or two, and maybe a sprinkling of humor, our students come to expect–and look for–little surprises.
How to Choose ESL Materials: 1 Simple Technique to Avoid an Embarrassing Surprise
I was caught off guard more than once with the materials I had chosen. I am hoping I can help you avoid the same experience. It’s embarrassing.
How to Choose Your ESL Materials? Avoid These Kinds of Pages
I’d like to start a discussion on the qualities that make for good ESL materials.
Hopefully, these next few weeks will help when you are searching and sifting through all of the many materials you have available to you on- or off-line.
Amazing ELL Conversation Game
This is a great game to help get your ESL/ELL students talking in class. It can also be used as a reward to help motivate students to finish their work more quickly.
A Fun Card Game to Get Your ELLs Talking
This is a great game to help get your ESL/ELL students talking in class. It can also be used as a reward to help motivate students to finish their work more quickly.
How to Help ESL Students Remember What You Teach
The first step to learning how to learn is learning how to remember. This article covers some important ways to help your ESL students remember what you teach.
1 Simple Teaching Technique to Encourage Kindness
Encouraging your students to not only respect each other but to also be kind is a worthy if sometimes difficult goal.
The #1 Most Challenging Teaching Skill
This skill is needed often in the classroom, not only with our students but with ourselves.
5 Ways ESL Teachers Can Create Peace in their Classes
Teaching is probably the world’s best profession, but there are a lot of ways it can drive you a little crazy.
1 Helpful Way to Be Happy as a Teacher
Most of us on one day or another wonder why happiness is so difficult to hold on to.
1 Important Strategy All Teachers Need to Use from Time to Time
“Doing nothing often leads to the very best something.” -Winnie the Pooh
A Teacher’s Love
Even though some of our students are hard to love, on most days and in most classes, we love them regardless.
ELLs Struggling? This #1 Cause Is the Most Important
One of the biggest challenges we face as teachers is figuring out why some students are able to learn the material while others are not.
4 Fun Get-Out-of-Your-Seat and Move Activities for Teaching ESL/ELLs
Getting your ESL/ELL students out of their seats and moving around can help your students learn better and get more done.
4 Steps to Teaching Phonics to ESL/ELLs
Four Steps to Teaching Phonics to English Language LearnersThis infographic …
How to Motivate Unmotivated ESL Students
It is unproductive to give a student an answer to a question they are not asking. But how does inductive learning play out in the classroom?
4 Tips to Help Weaker ELL Students
Sometimes it seems that no matter what I do, some students just can’t remember anything we do in class. Here are 4 tips that will help.
ELLs and Learning Styles
I was surprised when I recently started reading that learning styles are a bust. Should we really be scrapping the idea entirely?
Teaching ELLs Is About Making a Difference
Teaching is self-sacrifice. Teaching is giving. Teaching is loving when the other isn’t always lovable. Teaching is by grace a tinkering with the future…when the future keeps slapping your hands away.
5 Tips for Reducing Stress and Enjoying Your ELLs More
Kendra waited half a semester before dealing with a problem that ended up causing her to snap. What happened and how can we avoid the same mistake?
