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Inquire to see if your students have any unusual talents (can wiggle their ears, can bark like a dog), and encourage them to demonstrate. You will certainly need to have one yourself first, to bre ...
This archive contains one introduction file (PDF) and four game sets (4 PDF documents). 1. A Secret Message 2. Revision Board Game 3. Spymania 4. Meeting at the Airport Aim: revise reading, speaki ...
Explain to your students what it means to call someone a certain animal (dog, pig, fox) in English, and then ask them what these mean in their languages.
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Write on the board the sound chunk for which you will build the word family. Have students write the 'chunk' on the tree's trunk. Challenge students to fill the treetop with word ...
There are several Fall activities that you can use with your young learners: a phonics activity called 'It starts like Leaf', a numbers activity 'Help the squirrel', a shapes activity 'Acorns and ...
Fill the board with vocabulary your students have encountered in previous classes (make sure to include all parts of speech), and get them to make some sentences out of the words.
This is another set of cute motivational posters for you to use in your Teachers' Room - please make sure you check our previous 2 sets of similar posters!
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This is a nice color puzzle with the image of a caterpillar, and then there is also a print out coloring page for your younger learners to color. Kindly provided by Evan-Moor Corp. and can be also ...
Students read the colors on the page and color the butterfly. Alternative version for Spanish speakers is provided together with the 'English-only' coloring page.
This coloring page was kindly pr ...
Hand each student an index card, and tell them to write down a sentence that includes an error they have made this week, along with the correct version of the sentence. Next, tape all of the index ...
Have students come to the board one by one, draw a poster for an English language movie (without the title) they think the other students have seen, and let the other students guess which movie it is.
Invite your students to stand up and explore the classroom from new angles (look in drawers, under desks, behind posters, on top of cabinets). Then have students report their findings.
Just a few minutes before the bell rings, call on your students to choose the ten most useful words they came in contact with during this class period, then have them narrow it down to the three m ...
This is a full 11-page lesson plan for younger learners - all about spelling. This lesson was kindly provided by Evan-Moor Corp. and can be also downloaded from their website.
It has a small read ...
T reads aloud and makes mistakes. SS correct.
After a while you can modify the activity slightly by inviting a student to read out some sentences with mistakes, so that the class can correct.
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