To begin, divide your students into groups of 4 or 5.

Assign each group a different area to discuss the following criteria:

As a group, come up with these 3 characteristics for your made-up culture. 1. Greeting (How do you say “hi” to each other?) 2. Personal Space (How big is your culture’s personal bubble?) 3. What is offensive to your culture and what is something you value highly?

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Students explore the idea of crossing boundaries through bilingual, spoken-word poetry, culminating in a poetry slam at school or in the community.

From classroom management, to project ideas, to script writing and planning, the resources in these guides will help you implement creativity with technology across your curriculum.

The guides give strategies for implementing creative technology in: primary literacy, elementary literacy, elementary math, science, STEM, elementary social studies, digital story telling and English language skills.

This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) discusses a growing issue facing young people in many parts of the world, cyberbullying. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.

19 free decodable books.

Be sure to read the Reference Guide and follow the scope and sequence (linked at the top of the page under "Phonics Sequencing" to make sure you've explicitly taught all of the required skills for each book.

A scope and sequence is included as well as 47 passages and activities.

"DecodableReads™ are short, engaging stories that reinforce consistent, common vowel patterns in words and high-frequency words...Individual stories can be viewed and downloaded as PDF files by clicking the thumbnails below—or download all stories for each level by clicking the story bundle link."

The scope and sequence for these books is provided in the folder. The skills required to read the book are also provided in the first few pages of each book.

Open each book to see the sound/pattern included in the story. Sets 1-50 are available. High interest decodable chapter books are also included.

The DeepL Translator is a really cool tool that comes with its own definitions and automatic sentence completion options. You can choose from 26 languages and when you receive the translation, just double-click on a word for more details.

When you select that word in the translation, you will see a dropdown box with more options. You can also take a look at the word definition that pops up at the bottom of the page at the same time. Plus, you will see examples of the word being used in both the input and output languages. This is a great feature to have if you are trying to learn the language you are translating into.

Dialog is a good translation app that offers both voice and text translations. Dialog includes a number of interesting features such as a keyboard with built-in translator, use camera to translate texts in pictures, access translations in offline mode, support for 100 languages, automatic language detection, and more.

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+

This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) introduces the meaning of a sign you might see in places like a library or hospital. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, and speaking. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.

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German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and more.

This report covers language development from entering to proficient for listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Word Document Assessment on CFR progress
Categories: Entering, Emerging, Beginning, Developing, Expanding, Proficient
Check boxes: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

This math assessment consists of 5-11 questions for each grade K-8, an answer key and a place to record student results for each question.

This website put together by a University of Regina student has a EAL section that offers a growing collection of EAL resources:
- English Exercises - grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading, phonics, seasonal and more
- English Guide Resources - listening, vocabulary, grammar, reference
- ESL Lab- Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
- ESL Library - Lead your English language learners to greater success using Ellii's exceptional content and interactive teaching tools. Option to sign up.
- Government of Saskatchewan – A Guide to Using the Common Framework of Reference (CFR) with Learners of English as an Additional Language
- iSLCollective – English - a community of ESL/EFL teachers who publish our self-created English language lessons
- LINC 1 Classroom Activities: Learning Objects - These online language learning activities are based on a series of classroom resource books and audio CDs that were produced by Algonquin College with funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (Ontario Region). They are designed to assist newcomers learn English in the context of Canadian culture at the Canadian Language Benchmark 1 level.
- LINC 2 Classroom Activities: Learning Objects - Canadian Language Benchmark 2-3 range

Student Playlist
Task: Student will be able to create a digital story about….

Resource for Teachers with newcomer students.
A quick reference guide for classroom use.