ESL: English as a Second Language

Use these Language Experience Approach stories and images to address topics that affect the health and well-being of students. They are great for lowest levels in ESL. Stories include the following:

• Picture Story 1: Emergency
• Picture Story 2: A Doctor's Appointment
• Picture Story 3: Stressed Out!
• Picture Story 4: What Should She Do?
• Picture Story 5: Depressed
• Picture Story 6: The Right Dose
• Picture Story 7: What Happened to My Body?
• Picture Story 8: Snack Attack

Pixlr is a powerful photo editor that is online and completely free. Edited images can be posted to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or simply saved to your computer or online with its own Web address (URL). If students are adding images to an essay or flyer, they can have fun editing and enhancing the image with Pixlr.

There are three levels of Pixlr.

• Pixlr Editor is a powerful image editing tool similar to Photoshop
• Pixlr Express provides many borders, overlays, and effects that require no experience to use
• Pixlr-o-matic offers easy borders and effects.

This lesson will focus on Pixlr-o-matic, but once your students master it, you will likely find them experimenting with Pixlr Express and Pixlr Editor.

Students use this Thanksgiving activity to read and hear about the first Thanksgiving and have the chance to "be the historian." Students can learn about the English used at the time of colonization by the Pilgrims compared to Modern English, the Wampanoag people, and the English colonists. The section titled "The Path to 1621" [www] provides the native people's points of view vs. colonists' on topics related to Thanksgiving and colonization.

With the "Share What You Have Discovered" [www] section, students can write about picture prompts with the option to print. Additionally, students can read and learn about journey of the Mayflower with an interactive map and timeline that shows the course from England to New England during Mayflower II, the 1957 reenactment of the 17th Century colonists' journey.