Esl resources

Do you use Word Walls in your ESL classroom? Having a Word Wall is an easy way to display common vocabulary words that your students ...

Here is a list of super useful books, websites and YouTube channels for the younger ESL students.

100+ Printable board games and templates for kids and beginner ESL students. Download and use in class today!

Such a great way to get my ESL students to use the present, past and future verb tenses in an autobiography project!

A glance at ESL instruction with beginning English learners. This post shares ESOL activities for reading, writing, phonics and vocabulary.

This blog post shares some of my all time favorite resources to use in an elementary ESL classroom. Each one is kid tested and teacher approved.

Learn three simple things you need to teach your ESL beginners right away. These include variations of introductions, classroom surroundings and basic needs

These ELL Newcomer Activites are so helpful for ESL distance learning, or providing new ESL students activities to do in class with technology. Teaching newcomers is easy with these no prep ESL vocabulary units! Google Classroom ESL Activities | ESL Curriculum | ESL Games for Kids | ESL Activities for Kids | ESL Worksheets for beginners | Teaching elementary ESL | ESL Lesson Plans for beginners | ESL Online teaching

As an ESL teacher, I often hear from classroom teachers that they don't always know where to start when it comes to working with beginning English language learners (ELLs), or newcomers, in small group instruction. In this post I'll share a typical "guided reading" lesson that I would give to my beginning ELLs, as well as a glance of at what a typical week would look like. Let me start by saying, the very first thing I do before I start instructing my newcomers is, I assess what they already…

Finding natural and engaging listening resources can be tricky for adult language teachers. TV Shows and movies may speak too quickly for ELLs to understand, but scripted dialogues are often slow, broken up, and unnatural. They don’t prepare students well.