Group Activity

Close Reading Knowledge Building

February 13, 2019

All of our students bring with them unique thoughts, ideas, and perspectives. When we give them opportunities to share, together they can grow their understanding of a topic. Check out this idea for a...

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Building Blocks – A lesson in Active Learning

January 21, 2019

Start your class off on the right foot with this community building activity that doubles as a lesson in how to be a successful language learner. ...

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Error Correction Telephone

November 30, 2018

Image of someone holding a can with a string for the telephone game.

Here’s another way you can structure error correction to liven up your class and put the fun in grammar....

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Grammar Baseball

November 1, 2018

Error correction activities are a useful way to help students learn to analyze language and fix common errors. Try grammar baseball to engage your class with this fun game format. ...

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Writing, Grammar, and Punctuation Tie the Knot at RACE-2-WRITE

August 21, 2018

Have you been looking for a great way to help your students practice writing? Learn about the game Race-2-Write that will get your students writing while at the same time helping them become more aware...

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Collaborative Knowledge Base with Google Sheets

August 10, 2018

Yesterday at my college’s convocation, we did a group discussion activity that had us using Google Sheets as a place to collaborate and create a knowledge base that everyone now has access to. I’ve...

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Poster Presentations: A Scaffold to Public Speaking

August 8, 2018

Speaking is an essential part of learning a language, and public speaking is a needed skill in school and life. Check out this poster presentation format to help scaffold academic presentations skills...

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Annotating Together: An Activity for Building Reading Strategies

July 13, 2018

Do you have students who are hesitant to write on a text? Use this classroom activity to help emphasize the importance of annotating while reading and help students build a repertoire of annotation strategies....

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5 Collaborative Class Routines

June 12, 2018

Are you looking for some engaging ways to get your ESL students to work collaboratively? Check out these five ways to get students working and talking together....

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Redesigning Peer Review

May 11, 2018

Do you have conflict or struggle with peer reviews in your course? Check out this post to learn two new strategies that can be adapted to any writing assignment to help prevent disputes and people pleasing. Writing...

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Vocab Building Flashcards

April 30, 2018

Help your students grow their English vocabulary with these flashcards designed to help them grow their word knowledge in a collaborative way. ...

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Word Webs: Vocabulary Routine

April 7, 2018

Although we put a lot of effort into helping our students learn words, I would venture to guess we don’t often stop to reflect just how these words are stored our minds. What does research of the mental...

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SPUNKI Reading Response

April 3, 2018

You can use this collaborative sharing activity to get students to see their classmates' reflections on a particular class reading. It's a great way to start a discussion of a class reading....

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How To Write a Paragraph: Lesson Slides

March 24, 2018

Use these lesson slides and accompanying collaborative group activities to make your students paragraph experts without even having to lecture on it. ...

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Money and Shopping: For Sale Cards

March 4, 2018

Try these shopping cards to easily bring realia into your class without lugging in boxes of items. Each card has a picture of an item and price and will work great for any shopping/money related lesson....

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Conversation Class: Travel and Survival Slides

February 22, 2018

These ESL conversation class lesson plans (including beautifully designed slides and handouts) on travel and survival are sure to get your adult ESL learners engaged and learning. ...

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Verb Cards for Interactive Practice

August 16, 2017

A while back I posted a set of verb cards to use for a variety of different activities. This is a new set that I created that uses actual images instead of clipart. There is a total of 81 different commonly...

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Group Verb Tense Practice

May 15, 2017

Use these verb cards to form a simple yet engaging activity to have groups practice whatever verb tense you want them to work on. ...