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Make brief notes by the apps that you explore so that you can report back to the group.

CommonLit has a FREE collection of hundreds of short stories, poems, historical documents, and more for students in grades 5-12. The texts selections include fiction and non-fiction. The collection can be searched and filtered by lexile, grade, theme, genre, book pairings, literary device and units (a new feature).

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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Engaging EAL students in their learning involves best practices that are sensitive to the students’ specific needs and provide a safe and inviting environment where they are willing to take risks and involve themselves in their language acquisition. The strategies included here are good teaching practices for all students, including those just learning to speak, read, write and understand the intricacies of the English language.

The "EAL Toolkit" includes 50 strategies for the effective teaching of EAL learners

This site gives a long list of sites that offer support to EAL teachers and their students.

Click on the link to take you to the BlackBoard site for sign in:

Ministry of Education Blackboard Site: EAL, Immigration and Languages

Choose one or more of the resources on the following pages to explore for a few minutes. Use to the space at the bottom of the page to make brief notes to report back to the group.

Hopefully you can find some oral language activities in this handout that you can use in your classroom. Thank you for working to support the oral language abilities of the students on Saskatchewan’s Hutterite Colonies!

Letter Accompanying EAL A1 Resource
SECPSD EAL A10L Online Resource
Unit 1- Who Am I?
Unit 2- My New School
Unit 3- Date & Time
Unit 4- Weather
Unit 5/6- Where I Live/Money
Unit 7- Place and Directions
Unit 8- Personal Health
Unit 9- Food
Unit 10- Physical Activities/Hobbies
Unit 11- Clothing
Summative Assessment Project

7-UP Vocabulary Challenge

Make learning new vocabulary into a challenge game and see what happens!

This is a quick and material-free way to engage students with words they are learning!

The “7-UP”catch …  Tell the students that they are going to play a game of “7-UP” with the vocabulary words.  Naturally they will be excited because it’s a “game”.  The goal is to use the word in a sentence.  The trick is that the sentence has to be at least 7 words.  When the students point out “That’s going to be hard!” respond by “challenging” write a sentence better than the one you write. They will immediately want to “beat” you for the BEST sentence.  After they have shared with a shoulder partner, they nominated 3 peers to read their sentence for the class.  Vote for the most phenomenal sentence using the word.

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Information adapted from Powerful practices of really great mentors: how to inspire and motivate anyone