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            Elementary ESL Progress Report 
            
            Use this checklist to share your students� progress with their teachers and families.  Click on the "Forms" toolbar in MS Word to access the form to make permanent changes.  (Unclick the lock icon.)  Make sure the lock icon is clicked in order to use the form with the easy tab feature.  
             
            Level: elementary 
            Age: 5-17 
            Type: others 
            Downloads: 13
            
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            directions dice 
            
            Put together and use with maps or in a scene.  
             
            Level: elementary 
            Age: 6-17 
            Type: activity-card 
            Downloads: 7
            
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            weekly spelling contract 
            
            contract to be used for weekly spelling words practice
             
            Level: elementary 
            Age: 8-17 
            Type: others 
            Downloads: 1
            
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            Fact and Opinion Classifying Activity Cards 
            
            Using two header cards labeled "fact" and "opinion", have students classify the following sets of cards.  Each set is supported with visual input, decreasing the cognitive load required to process such a tricky concept, particularly with  young learners.  I used this with my third grade intermediate-high class.  
             
            Level: elementary 
            Age: 7-17 
            Type: activity-card 
            Downloads: 7
            
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            There�s a New Teacher in Town!  Unit Plan 
            
            Listening and speaking English in a variety of settings empowers, connects, and provides deeper understanding of the world and the people around you.
Curriculum to be covered
�	Importance of fluid conversational skills 
�	Relying less on visual cues when listening to spoken English
�	Responding to most conversational questions on a variety ...
            
             
            Level: elementary 
            Age: 7-9 
            Type: lesson-plan 
            Downloads: 2
            
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            Kindergarten Circle Time Master Lesson Plan 
            
            Lesson Plan template complete with WIDA standards to plan daily circle time activities.  Listening and speaking objectives are covered.
             
            Level: elementary 
            Age: 5-6 
            Type: lesson-plan 
            Downloads: 8
            
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            A TEACHER�S SURVIVAL KIT FOR EVERYDAY LIVING 
            
            A TEACHER�S SURVIVAL KIT FOR EVERYDAY LIVING
            
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 3-17 
            Downloads: 39 
            
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            Motivating Students 
            
            Some students seem naturally enthusiastic about learning, but many need or expect their instructors to inspire, challenge, and stimulate them: "Effective learning in the classroom depends on the teacher�s ability ... to maintain the interest that brought students to the course in the first place" (E...
            
            
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 3-17 
            Downloads: 58 
            
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            Classroom Organization 
            
            Take a chance on a wild idea to motivate your students to be the best they can. To teach them to take risks, you must do the same.  Start with your classroom design!
            
            Level: elementary 
            Age: 5-10 
            Downloads: 38 
            
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            Types of Sentences and Punctuation 
            
            
            
            Unit test on sentences:  Make words into sentences; identify sentence or not a sentence; statements, questions, commands, exclamations
            
            Level: elementary 
            Age: 8-10 
             
            
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