ESL: English as a Second Language

Students use e-mail to write chain stories. Students co-author stories in three parts with a beginning, middle, and end.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate High, Advanced

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.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced

Use this Web site to make online quizzes, polls, ratings, or surveys for your classes. The free account provides 200 survey responses per month and 10 questions per survey.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Beginning Literacy, Beginning Low, Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced, All Levels

This is an example of a project created by 4th - 6th grade bilingual students on the topic of citizenship. It is written in both English and Spanish, so it could be useful for teaching citizenship as well as being an example of project-based learning. For students who want to study individually, questions and answers related to the interview for United States citizenship are provided.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced

Use the free section of this mobile app in class to teach 20 common idioms or have students use the app individually, in pairs, or small groups to learn idioms. The free section of the app provides an idiom or proverb in text, such as "butterflies in one’s stomach," which the user must find in an illustration that has several idioms represented. After selecting the picture in the illustration, a definition is provided with tabs that give an example sentence using the idiom, the idiom’s origin, and sharing options (share picture on FB, Twitter, or e-mail to a friend). Other examples of idioms include the following: bookworm, cat got your tongue, raining cats and dogs, an apple a day keeps the doctor away.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate High, Advanced