A Lesson on Topic Sentences
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 all about writing clear topic sentences.
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Common Errors: Examples and Handout
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 they make the most.
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Book Group Roles
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 for. If you put your students into book groups, check out these roles.
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Save Time with a Master Google Slide Template
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 on your prep time.
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Collaborative Knowledge Base with Google Sheets
Yesterday at my college’s convocation, we did a group discussion activity that had us using Google Sheets as a place …
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Poster Presentations: A Scaffold to Public Speaking
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 for your students.
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The True/False Grid
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.
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Language and Identity Unit
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.
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Conversation Class: Family and Children
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
Use this activity sequence to get your ESL students to practice different verb tenses in a fun and contextualized way.
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Just-In-Time Syntax Booster
Add this just-in-time syntax routine to your class to help improve your students' English sentence structure.
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Conversation Class: Natural Remedies and Traditional Plants
Check out the latest of TESOL Planner's conversation class lesson slides. This time get your students talking about natural remedies and traditional plants.
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Discussion Question Slides Bank
Access this series of over 50 discussion questions in slides format to add more speaking opportunities to your ESL class.
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Three Steps to Better Pronunciation
This is a great activity to help English learners improve their pronunciation of English sentences by paying attention to phrases and stressed words.
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Become an Expert Language Learner
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.
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Ways to Study Over Break
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 with them to encourage them to study over the break.
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Making Inferences
Help your students improve their reading skills with this complete lesson on making inference. The post includes lesson slides and a group activity handout
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How To Write a Paragraph: Lesson Slides
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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Oral Fluency Assignment
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 and then analyzing it.
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Theme Based Reading/Writing Unit
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.
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