Lessons and Handouts

A Lesson on Topic Sentences

September 9, 2018

If you teach a class where writing is a focus, then you’ll most likely be covering topic sentences at some point. This post has a slide presentation that can help you introduce and your students learn...

Acceleration / Advanced Composition / Grammar / Learner Resources / Lessons and Handouts / Verbs

Common Errors: Examples and Handout

September 6, 2018

Learning to self-correct is an important skill language learners must develop. Check out this list of common errors I’ve been collecting. Share it with your students to help them review the mistakes...

Acceleration / Classroom Ideas / Lessons and Handouts / Reading

Book Group Roles

August 30, 2018

Group work is a wonderful way to get students to collaborate and learn together. The best way to assure that everyone actively participates is to assign everyone in the group a specific task to be responsible...

Activity Ideas / Classroom Ideas / Education / Lessons and Handouts / Slides / Teacher Tips / Technology

Save Time with a Master Google Slide Template

August 12, 2018

Do you use Google Slides to create your lesson plans? If so, you should definitely have a Google Slide document where you keep templates of slides you really like and want to use again. It will cut down...

Acceleration / Activity Ideas / Advanced Composition / Classroom Ideas / Graphic Organizers / Group Activity / Lessons and Handouts / Technology / Video

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...

Acceleration / Activity Ideas / Classroom Ideas / Discussion / Graphic Organizers / Group Activity / Lessons and Handouts

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...

Acceleration / Community Building / Discussion / Discussion Game / Graphic Organizers / Icebreaker / Lessons and Handouts

The True/False Grid

August 1, 2018

Check out this True/False grid community building activity. It's a great way to help the class get to know you in a fun and competitive way. It also gets them talking, so that's an added bonus....

Acceleration / Advanced Composition / California Community Colleges / Discussion Game / Lessons and Handouts / Student Packets

Language and Identity Unit

June 20, 2018

This unit is based around the theme of Language and Identity. There are two readings that are the basis of the essay at the end of the unit. ...

Conversation Class / Discussion / Lessons and Handouts / Talking Chart

Conversation Class: Family and Children

May 20, 2018

Are you planning to talk about family and children in your class? Use this conversation lesson and talking chart to engage your class. ...

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Contextualized Verb Practice

May 18, 2018

Use this activity sequence to get your ESL students to practice different verb tenses in a fun and contextualized way. ...

Acceleration / Advanced Composition / Grammar / Lessons and Handouts / Teacher Tips

Just-In-Time Syntax Booster

May 5, 2018

Add this just-in-time syntax routine to your class to help improve your students' English sentence structure. ...

Conversation Class / Discussion / Lessons and Handouts

Conversation Class: Natural Remedies and Traditional Plants

May 1, 2018

Check out the latest of TESOL Planner's conversation class lesson slides. This time get your students talking about natural remedies and traditional plants....

Discussion / Lessons and Handouts / Slides

Discussion Question Slides Bank

April 22, 2018

Access this series of over 50 discussion questions in slides format to add more speaking opportunities to your ESL class. ...

Discussion / Learner Resources / Lessons and Handouts

Three Steps to Better Pronunciation

April 21, 2018

This is a great activity to help English learners improve their pronunciation of English sentences by paying attention to phrases and stressed words. ...

Learner Resources / Lessons and Handouts

Become an Expert Language Learner

April 20, 2018

Are you learning a Language? Check out these strategies to help you be an expert language learner. Are you a teacher? Use this article in your class to help students develop their language learning strategies....

Learner Resources / Lessons and Handouts

Ways to Study Over Break

April 15, 2018

If you're learning English, read about different ways to study English to help your language skills improve. If you're a teacher, print the handout to give to your students or share this article...

Acceleration / Lessons and Handouts / Reading / Slides

Making Inferences

April 14, 2018

Help your students improve their reading skills with this complete lesson on making inference. The post includes lesson slides and a group activity handout...

Acceleration / Group Activity / Lessons and Handouts / Slides / Writing

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. ...

Discussion / Grammar / Lessons and Handouts

Oral Fluency Assignment

March 21, 2018

Helping students recognize and correct error patterns in their own speech can be a challenge. This assignment helps students gain an awareness of their own speech patterns by transcribing their own speech...

Acceleration / Lessons and Handouts / Reading / Student Packets / Writing

Theme Based Reading/Writing Unit

March 14, 2018

The unit is based around the theme of Herd Mentality and Mob Behavior. At the end of the unit, students will work on an essay that applies the terms to a short story in the unit....