This self-assessment is designed for students new to English. It allows them to think about six general science concepts (earth science, life science, chemistry, physics, astronomy, and environmental science) and rate how they feel about their knowledge in each concept. This will help ELL and science teachers get an idea of where newcomer students view their strengths and weaknesses in science, as well as identify their science related interests.

This printable set of graphic organizers are simple and easy to understand and fill out. Graphic organizers are provided for: Cause and Effect Main Idea and Supporting Details Sequence of Events Drawing Conclusions Compare and Contrast

This unit is designed to educate students on the 12 most common religions in the world today through web-based research: Baha’i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism and Zoroastrianism; while at the same time facilitating the development of opinions on spiritual matters, teaching tolerance, and strengthening student writing through daily prompts and a final creative writing project. A final assessment utilizing student research is provided. There are 16 days of PowerPoint presentations to guide the learning leading up to the creative writing project. Each lesson opens with a higher order thinking question designed to develop opinions and teach tolerance. Questions are presented in Spanish and English, with the option to edit out the Spanish. The file “writing rubric” contains a student friendly rubric based on the WIDA writing rubric which should be used daily to evaluate student writing and allow opportunities for teachers to conference with students on how to move to the next level. Following a period where students write their answers, students should be encouraged to share their answers orally and respond to each other, allowing an opportunity for students to engage in a class discussion around the questions.

This set includes all the dolch sight words as flash cards. They require cutting apart, The words are organized alphabetically in sets by pre-primer, primer, first grade, second grade and third grade.

tudents will be working collaboratively to research one of four ancient civilizations that have influenced our world today, while building their digital literacy and writing proficiency. Students will present their information to other groups in the form of a slide show using an application such as Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides. Each group will become an expert on one civilization, and will be teaching the other groups about their civilization. Supplemental materials are included if you choose to do a guided small group for Newcomer ELLs or SPED (special education) students who have impairments in the area of reading. A series of PowerPoint presentations to guide research and facilitate discussions through higher-order thinking questions are provided in both Spanish and English. Rubrics are used to help students improve their writing proficiency by responding to daily prompts which facilitate the discussions. Teachers have the option of teaching the unit as a dual-language unit in Spanish and English or as English only. For the English only version, sentence starters are provided to scaffold language for ESOL or SPED students. The unit can be taught in a social studies or language arts class. Covered civilizations include Maya, Inca, Aztec, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia. Included in the bundle are daily lesson plans with daily objectives, standards, scaffolded discussion questions, vocabulary and assessment rubrics.

When printed double sided, these flash cards of dolch site words have English on one side, and the Spanish translation on the back. It is helpful if you are trying to give meaning to site words to students who are learning to read while simultaneously beginning to learn English. It's also a great help for acquiring Spanish!

When printed double sided, these flash cards of dolch site words have English on one side, and the French translation on the back. It is helpful if you are trying to give meaning to site words to students who are learning to read while simultaneously beginning to learn English. It's also a great help for acquiring French!

This self-assessment is designed for students new to English. It allows them to think about six general math concepts and rate how they feel about each concept. This will help ELL and mathematics teachers get an idea of where newcomer students view their strengths and weaknesses are in mathematics.