Elementary critical thinking vocabulary cultural activities

EFL - ESL - ELD, Phonics, Vocabulary

One of the most useful tools for ELL newcomers to have is a picture dictionary to begin to build vocabulary in English. This growing bundle includes 3 picture dictionaries that all support newcomers in foundational English skills. This Bilingual Picture Dictionary is the perfect resource to provide your newcomers with so that they can have a tool to use in all classes and work on vocabulary independently.This Bilingual Picture Dictionary will also help give students the confidence to start speak

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1st - 6th

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Survival Words and Phrases for ESL Newcomers - ESL Visuals, ESL Picture Cards

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Back to School, EFL - ESL - ELD, Vocabulary

The best place to begin to support ELL Newcomers is through vocabulary and visuals. This set of survival flashcards will help you provide your students with exactly that type of support. These flashcards are great to print, laminate, and give to your newcomers to carry around with them to all classes. Each flashcard has a voiced over QR code so that the students can listen and practice the vocabulary on their own at home. Let's Connect!Looking for more support?Click here to sign up for a free ye

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K - 5th

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Bulletin Board Ideas, Cultural Activities, For Principals & Administrators

Also included in: ESL Newcomers Beginning of the Year Activities - ESL Back to School First Week

ESL Vocabulary & Speaking Flashcards Activities - ESL Newcomer Vocabulary Cards

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EFL - ESL - ELD, Oral Communication, Vocabulary

The ELL Toolkit was created as a way for newcomer students to quickly begin to pick up key English vocabulary and phrases through multiple conversation activities. Real photos are used to allow students to make connections to the new language and games make it fun for students to put into practice what they are learning. What's included in the ELL Toolkit:-Real photographs to represent key vocabulary words and phrases. -Lesson plans-Differentiated activities that promote speaking opportunities.

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Grades:

1st - 6th

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Activities, Flash Cards, Cultural Activities

ESL Lessons and Activities | ESL Sub Plans | ESL Reading Comprehension & Writing

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Reading aloud to our students is one of the best ways that we can improve their comprehension of language. This is especially true when working with ESL Reading Comprehension. Your K-5 students will be easily engaged as they listen and interact with 24 fiction and nonfiction texts. The extended ESL worksheets will cover all four language domains: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. The ESL lesson included has step-by-step instructions for easy, fun learning. The opportunities for student

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Activities, Cultural Activities, Lesson

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K - 5th

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ESL Newcomers Beginning of the Year Activities - ESL Back to School First Week

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Are you working with ELL Newcomers this year and not sure where to begin? Or did your principal just inform you that a newcomer student will be starting in your class tomorrow? These situations can cause a lot of stress and additional burden, but they don't have to! The Getting Started with ELL Newcomers is filled with materials for the first month of working with ELL beginners. It will give you a variety of materials to begin your students on the English journey in both interactive and engaging

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Activities, Flash Cards, Cultural Activities

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K - 5th

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Le Carnaval de Québec (Bonhomme Carnaval) - French Vocab Activities and Quiz

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One Teacher's Adventures

This pack includes 23 pages of vocabulary lists and activities to help your Beginner French students talk about the Québec Winter Carnival (Bonhomme Carnaval).You'll get:-What is the Québec Winter Carnival? Background information sheet-Vocabulary list with 27 words-Create Your Own Flashcards activity-Vocabulary Wordsearch Puzzle (with answer key)-Loto! (Bingo) game-Crossword Puzzle (with answer key)-Scrambled Words Puzzle (With answer key)-Match the English and French Vocab Puzzle-Fill in the Bl

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French, Vocabulary, Winter

Grades:

4th - 7th

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Worksheets, Thematic Unit Plans, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Beginner French Bundle - FULL YEAR of Activities!! (Gr 4-7)

ESL Newcomers Curriculum K-12 | ESL Activities | ESL Lesson Plans

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A K-12 Newcomer Curriculum is here! Purchase the ELL Newcomer K-12 Curriculum today and you will have: A Yearlong Curriculum (7 units with clipart for younger ELL Newcomers) A Yearlong Curriculum (7 units with real photographs for older ELL Newcomers) 28 digital centers for younger ELL Newcomers28 digital centers for older ELL Newcomers 12 monthly speaking and writing picture promptsEnglish Language Proficiency Assessment (Printable and Digital)Newcomer Icebreaker Activities 30 Templates for Dig

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Activities, Cultural Activities, Independent Work Packet

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K - 12th

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First Nations People in Early Canada, Six People Groups: Gr. 3 NEW BC Curriculum

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Teaching With Bonnie

Learn about the 6 different groups of early First Nations People in Canada according to their geographic location. Learn how the environment influenced food, home, community, travel, trade, government, traditions and celebrations. Graphic organizers help students to sort information visually and compare similarities and differences. A wide range of thinking activities are include throughout.Created for Grade 3 BC's NEW Curriculum.Contents Curricular and Content Competencies AddressedIntroduction

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Critical Thinking, Geography, Social Studies - History

Grades:

2nd - 4th

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Printables, Graphic Organizers, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Grade 3 Social Studies Bundle: Indigenous People Groups: Goverance: NEW BC

ESL Distance Learning for ELL Newcomers| ESL Google Slides Classroom Bundle

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Are you trying to figure out how to support an ELL Newcomer through distance learning activities? These digital centers will help you provide the scaffolds, supports, and strategies to meet the needs of older newcomers while they are at home. ALL 7 units have been added and are ready to use!What is included in these digital centers? -New vocabulary words each week as well as a story with pictures that uses the vocabulary. -Introduction mini lesson to a weekly grammar skill. -Conversation practic

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Activities, Cultural Activities

Grades:

3rd - 8th

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3/D Tipi, Circle and Welcome Pole Craft, EASY Native American Art Fall Activity

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The Art Lady's Store

This bundle includes 3 Native American themed craft projects made for students using circles (Mandela) cones (3/D tipi), and cylinders (welcome poles) These crafts are a great way to integrate the arts with your Native American curriculum. This is three of my students favorites put together in a money saving bundle! See descriptions for each project, and check out the teacher reviews of individual items! Crafts include a 3/D tipi, mandella, and 3/D welcome pole. Great for Bulletin boards, door

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Art History, Critical Thinking, Native Americans

Grades:

1st - 7th

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Bulletin Board Ideas, Cultural Activities, Centers

DIGITAL CHRISTMAS BINGO GAME - Lots of Holiday Vocabulary Fun Guaranteed!

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Drag Drop Learning Games

You will love how easy it is to implement this online BINGO game featuring Christmas vocabulary words. It is designed to be integrated into your distance learning meet ups. Just provide your students with a link to the interactive board. Each player will automatically receive a different version. When you are ready to play, simply open the BINGO game and follow the uncomplicated instructions to begin calling the cards. Share your screen with your students and they will see the cards as they

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Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Classroom Community, Vocabulary

Grades:

2nd - 5th

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Games, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Digital Holiday BINGO Game Bundle - 7 Year Long Virtual Classroom Activities

First Nations in Early Canada, Activities Book: Indigenous People, Grade 3

Created by

Teaching With Bonnie

Engaging activities on First Nations in Early Canada include: read, complete graphic organizers, play with words, critical thinking, crosswords, word search PLUS more. This book of activities was created as a companion to "Early First Nations People of Canada". Use for "fast finishers". The booklet may also stand alone. Grade 3 Social Studies curriculum. Great for differentiated learning. Answer keys provided.Activities Include:examine and interpret tipi designscritical thinking exercise on the

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Critical Thinking, Social Studies - History

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2nd - 3rd

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The Nuts and Boldts of Teaching

Save Me a Seat Vocabulary Pictures

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Multi-page document with vocabulary words and corresponding pictures to assist with comprehension of this amazing book!

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Reading, Reading Strategies, Vocabulary

Grades:

3rd - 5th

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Cultural Activities

Games Around the World

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Globe Trottin' Kids

Connect children to their peers around the world through versions of traditional games like tag, hopscotch, tic-tac-toe, and dominoes. This fun and engaging product includes 35 games from 23 different countries* for students to explore and compare all year long. Each game card includes clear instructions to prepare and play the game, its country of origin, and printables when necessary.Also included...a world map for locating the country of the game they will be playinga summary list for the ma

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Critical Thinking, Geography, Problem Solving

Grades:

1st - 4th

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Games, Cultural Activities

Native Americans - Overview of Tribes in North America

Created by

Katherine Reynolds

Native Americans - Overview of Tribes in North America. This is a power point with 27 slides with a quiz reviewing Native PowerPoint Common Core Assessment American Tribes of North America. Natural Resources Culture Groups Region Physical Surrounding Nomadic Totem Poles Iroquois Cherokee Apache Navajo

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Informational Text, Native Americans, Vocabulary

Grades:

2nd - 5th

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Assessment, Cultural Activities

DIGITAL Halloween Themed Vocabulary Bingo Game

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Drag Drop Learning Games

You will love how easy it is to implement this online Halloween BINGO game. It is designed to be integrated into your distance learning meet ups. Just provide your students with a link to the interactive board. Each player will automatically receive a different version. When you are ready to play, simply open the BINGO game and follow the uncomplicated instructions to begin calling the cards. Share your screen with your students and they will see the cards as they are called.“I love the way

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Classroom Community, Halloween, Vocabulary

Grades:

2nd - 5th

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Games, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Digital Holiday BINGO Game Bundle - 7 Year Long Virtual Classroom Activities

ESL Games for Vocabulary and Speaking Activities | ESL Homework

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These vocabulary and speaking games for ELL newcomer contains 16 weeks worth of materials which cover vocabulary about classroom, school, family, feelings, food, around the house, daily routines, sports and activities, around the community, community workers, at the grocery store, weather, at the doctor, clothing, animals, and travel. The are also are a great way for parents and students to learn and practice English together!Each week of lessons also includes: Say it and Color it GameTalking T

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1st - 5th

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Art History, Critical Thinking, Hispanic Heritage Month

Picasso Pumpkins: Hispanic Heritage Month, EASY Fall or Halloween Craft Cut&Glue

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The Art Lady's Store

A fun Fall art activity for Hispanic Heritage Month. Learn about Spains most famous artist while creating a cubist style pumpkin in the likeness of Picasso’s famous paintings. Several pumpkin images and sizes are included for student choice, including one created after Picasso's "Girl in the Mirror" painting. There are 2 pages of facial features drawn from Picasso’s most popular paintings including “Skull with Leeks. Students of all ages and abilities will have fun mixing up the face features

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Grades:

K - 6th

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Projects, Bulletin Board Ideas, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Fall Crafts Picasso Style: Pumpkin, Turkey, Portraits. Thanksgiving Art Bundle

ESL- Newcomer pre and post assessments

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Global ESL

This document contains pre and post assessments for newcomer ELLs and ESL curriculum. It includes pre and post assessments for the following 15 topics: Unit 1: Survival Language- Personal Information Unit 2: Classroom Objects/Subjects/Locations Unit 3: Alphabet Unit 4: Numbers Unit 5: Color Identification Unit 6: Body Parts Unit 7: Family Unit 8: Food Unit 9: Money Unit 10: Seasons/Calendar Unit 11: Time Unit 12: Home Unit 13: Feelings/Emotions Unit 14: Domestic/Farm Animals Unit 15: Community

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EFL - ESL - ELD, Grammar, Vocabulary

Grades:

PreK - 5th

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Assessment, Cultural Activities

Dual Language Vocabulary Bundle |Lapbook in English and Espanol

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EFL - ESL - ELD, Spanish, Vocabulary

Do you work with students in Spanish and English? Then these lapbooks will be a perfect fit for your classroom! Each lapbooks covers basic vocabulary in Spanish and English and will prepare your students with some key words and phrases to begin. The format will engage the students as well as become a key resource to use throughout the year! What is included? -A personal/about me page to get to know each student. -El Alfabeto/The Alphabet-Los colores/Colors-Los numeros/Numbers-El Cuerpo/Body Part

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Grades:

K - 4th

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Activities, Cultural Activities

Culturally Responsive Morning Meeting Slides | Morning Meeting Activities

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A Kinder World -- Jenny LaRocque

A picture is worth 1,000 words therefore use powerful pictures to have powerful morning meeting discussions with these morning meetings slides. Compatible with Google Slides, Google Classroom and Seesaw. This powerpoint contains over 90 pictures with prompts to discuss with your students. Now includes pandemic pictures to engage students in the conversation about living in a pandemic. A Whole Year of picture prompts! Watch video to see the entire presentation:Culturally Responsive Morning Meetin

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Back to School, Classroom Community, Critical Thinking

Grades:

PreK - 1st

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Cultural Activities

Morning Meeting Sharing Questions- 200 Fun Discussion Questions

Created by

Rachelle McCracken

Do you participate in morning meetings? Do you ever get to the sharing time and find yourself asking the same types of questions or simply having trouble thinking of new questions to promote a safe and fun classroom community? This download contains 180 unique morning meeting sharing questions--one for each day of the school year. It is a great addition to any morning meeting space. You can choose to print out the master copy of the questions if you have a way of organizing the questions on your

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Classroom Management, Critical Thinking, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

K - 5th

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