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Worksheet: Reading Response (Self/World/Text Framework)
Get your students to respond to writing by making connections to the self, the world, and other texts. Foster critical reading skills. Includes focus questions for students to answer. Current version applies to narrative forms but it is fully editable and can be adapted to other text types.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Creative Writing Game
Students write a story together by taking turns adding to a story. A fun way to get students to write, especially if you ask them to focus on using the past tense verb, or provide a vocabulary list they must include. Game has different names but the name I know is "Rigmarole".
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 9
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What is Context?
Need to help your students develop the ability to guess a word�s meaning through its context? Worksheet makes use of amusing pictures and real-world situations + amusing story.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 42
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Movie Review: Alvin and the Chipmunks + questions
Movie Review including questions. Exercise touches on fact and fiction, especially reading for meaning (by understanding the elements of good writing). Again, good for CALP. Lots of kids need more than just comprehension but ability to read and evaluate texts (as per Bloom�s Taxonomy). Thanks in advance for comments!
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Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 104
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Writing a Review
Guide to writing a review with space right beside it for students to see. Note: Please see Alvin and the Chipmunk Review in my downloadables for a sample to go with this lesson. Can be used to review anything: story, toy, game.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 29
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Citizenship word list (activity)
A way to begin discussing "citizenship" in the classroom, or even simply, classroom rules. Vocabulary word list with pictures that students can match. They can cut and paste the pictures and match them with the proper definition. It is great because it involves a hands-on thinking activity!
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 9
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Math for ESL Learners: Mean, Median, Mode, Range
A Halloween worksheet for students working with mean, median, mode, and range. Gets students thinking and applying this vocabulary in a way that is simple and will not necessarily make them feel out of place in the content classroom. Answer key + link to additional resource is provided.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Reading: Cause, Effect, Consequences with Definition
Funny story to demonstrate cause, effect, consequence.
Hope it gives some laughs and opens class up for discussion.
Clipart is from a freeclipart website. Link is included as acknowledgment.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 110
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Speaking/Writing Activity: Debate on Animal Testing
In this activity, students read for meaning, speak for a certain purpose, think critically about issues, and write for a specific audience. Excellent activity in a unit on persuasive techniques, and essay writing. For advanced students. Fully editable and easy to adapt!
PLEASE NOTE: Preview is incorrect. There are 4 pages in total. Works fine...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 44
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Graphic Organizer: Topic, Audience, and Purpose
Handy graphic organizer to help ESL students with analyzing texts, especially when preparing for non-ESL academic courses. It helps for them to be able to use the language of topic, audience, and purpose when reading/writing a text. Good for CALP.
Note: Two versions included - the second is for younger students
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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