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The Napping House Picture Text
The Napping House is an excellent short story with lots of repetition. This worksheet enables students to retell the story with icons replacing some of the language as well as a fill in activity.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Oral Presentation Scoring Guide
What do you look for when students give oral reports? This rubric helps isolate particular aspects of making an oral presentation. I tell my students that this form makes the presentation evaluation 70 percent objective and 30 percent subjective. For example, we can count how many times a student repeats a word. I either make a tic or actually writ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 28
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Beginning Reports Using Cloze: Animals
I teach English to a small group of Chinese early elementary students. I have had great success with this type of oral report to help build student confidence and fluency in speaking before their classmates. An example of the brief report is at the bottom of the data page and students search through the data to fill in the information for their spo...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type: others
Downloads: 6
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Thanksgiving Dialogue
I love making dialogues to supplement readings and update with more modern idioms and language use. This dialogue is designed to explain how Thanksgiving is celebrated in the USA. Feel free to adapt to your own situation.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-14
Type:
Downloads: 13
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Wonders: Maria Celebrates Brazil Crossword
This crossword is to accompany the Wonders story, Maria Celebrates Brazil that I posted yesterday. The important words of the story are in the crossword. An answer box is provided, which, of course, can be omitted or re-ordered)
Level: elementary
Age: 6-10
Type:
Downloads: 4
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Three Little Pigs Word Analysis Using WordSift 2
I am presenting this amazing web tool to my ESL colleagues in case they might find it useful. Although I used a simple story as the example, the tool will work with large amounts of text and can be very useful linguistically.
Level: advanced
Age: 5-100
Type: others
Downloads: 2
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TED Talk, �The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers� Comprehension Quiz
This TED Talk by Adam Grant is highly rated and a great discussion starter about creativity and being an �Original�. I developed 11 comprehension questions and three open-ended questions related to the video. Video URL on worksheet.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 54
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Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses Crossword Puzzle
Here is a crossword puzzle to go along with the "Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses" script I uploaded.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-10
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Wonders: Maria Celebrates Brazil
Here is the transcription of the dialogue of the second story in Wonders G2-U1 about a girl who is going to dance at the Carnival Parade (though the story doesn�t specifically say "Carnival"). I�ve also included a YouTube link to children leading the Carnival parade.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type:
Downloads: 8
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Pete the Cat and the Magic Sunglasses
There are nearly 20 books in the Pete the Cat series. My students really like them and they are great for oral reading and role play. This printable includes the whole script of the story, with a little cloze activity plus a question and answer dialogue where one student is �a� and another student is �b�. Students learn how to ask and answer questi...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-10
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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