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I love to share valuable learnings, teachings, and tips & tricks that will help you personalize your teaching approach and create a supportive and engaging learning environment for your ESL students.
10 Authentic Writing Practices for ESL Students in Secondary English Classrooms
Discover ten compelling ways to incorporate authentic writing opportunities into your secondary English classroom for ESL students. From pen pal exchanges to mock job applications, these practices foster real-life language application, encourage self-expression, and empower students with practical language skills, making the learning process engaging and meaningful.
10 Effective Strategies for Differentiating Instruction for ESL Students
Learn ten effective strategies tailored to ESL students, making language learning engaging and inclusive. From pre-teaching vocabulary to providing scaffolded assignments and promoting real-life language application, empower your students with a customized approach that fosters success and confidence in the English classroom.
4 Ways to Differentiate Reading Responses for ESL Students
Empower ESL students with effective reading response strategies tailored to their language proficiency levels. Learn actionable approaches, from pre-teaching vocabulary to extensive modeling, ensuring comprehension and confidence in English Language Learners' written reflections.
10 Engaging Activities to Teach Verb Tenses and Verb Forms in ESL Middle School Classrooms
Learning verb tenses and verb forms can be a whole lot of fun! In this blog post, we'll explore 10 engaging activities tailored for secondary ESL classrooms that will help your students grasp verb tenses, irregular verbs, and verb forms with ease.
Reading Comprehension Strategies: The Power of Questioning
Here’s a teaching strategy that can make a world of difference in your students' reading comprehension: questioning while reading. In this blog post, we'll explore why asking questions during reading is such a game-changer, break down the types of questions, and provide you with examples to promote deeper comprehension.
Teaching Idioms and Figurative Language to ESL Students
In this blog post, we're going to explore effective strategies to make teaching idioms and figurative language a breeze and a barrel of fun. No pun intended.
Fun and Engaging Reading Comprehension Activities for Every Season
Great activities that will add a dash of adventure to your classroom without sacrificing your students' reading and critical thinking skills. If you've been looking for a way to break the routine and make learning more engaging and interactive, you're in for a treat.
Differentiating Instruction in the Reading/ELA Classroom
In this blog post, you’ll explore how you can tailor your teaching to meet the unique needs of your EB students.
6 Ways to Help Your ESL Students Read
Students learning English as a second language benefit tremendously from pre-reading strategies, the use of visual aids, and other supplementary materials. In this blog post, you’ll find 6 ways you can help your Emergent Bilingual students succeed in comprehending grade-level material
10 Interactive Ways to Teach Adjectives
As an ESL teacher, I've found that the key to making adjectives come alive for students is through hands-on and enjoyable experiences. In this blog post, I'm going to share 10 interactive activities that are sure to engage and educate your ESL students about adjectives.
7 Tips for Efficient Lesson Planning
Here are some handy tips to make your weekly planning a breeze while staying sane. Assign a day for each of your administrative tasks. These include lesson planning, grading, parent communication, and other administrative tasks.
Engage ESL Students in Subject and Predicate
It's amazing how similar the grammar curriculum is throughout the years starting from first grade all the way to high school. Unfortunately, we still get students who need the basics, and even worse still is that the resources available for the basic skills, such as subject and predicate, are geared toward younger children.
All About My Country Project: A Way to Connect with Students
This "All About My Country" project sparks curiosity and helps build rapport with your students. In this blog post, I'll walk you through the ins and outs of implementing this project in your classroom and share how it can transform your teaching experience.
How to Prepare ESL Students for End-of-Year State Testing: What You Can Do Now
The blog post discusses the importance of preparing ESL students for end-of-year state testing. It provides tips on how to do this, including building a strong foundation in language skills, practicing test-taking strategies, and creating a supportive classroom environment.
10 Fun Back-to-School Icebreakers for Older Kids
Here you’ll find a compiled a list of ten of the best back-to-school icebreakers that will leave our ESL students smiling and eager to learn.
5 Best Back to School Classroom Routines
Having routines in place provides the structure and familiarity that you and your students need in order to feel prepared every day.
In this blog post, you’ll find 5 of the best back-to-school classroom routines that will save your sanity throughout the school year.
7 Engaging Peer Editing Activities for Your ESL Students
These 7 activities provide opportunities for ESL students to engage in meaningful peer editing and revising processes. By actively participating in these activities, students can develop their editing and revising skills, provide valuable feedback, and ultimately improve their own writing abilities.
10 ESL Activities to Teach Chronological Organization in Narrative Writing
Get your ESL students to master organization skills in writing so they can create captivating stories with a logical flow of events that engage readers from start to finish. Through the use of effective strategies, your students will for sure bring their experiences to life. Here, you’ll find 10 ESL teaching strategies for chronological organization in narrative writing.
10 Fun Activities to Develop Descriptive Writing in ESL Students
Explore 10 activities to develop descriptive writing in our ESL students that are actually fun. Pick and choose what works for your students depending on the grade level you’re teaching and the proficiency level of your students.
Teaching ESL students to Write Personal Narratives
Teaching ESL students to write personal narratives is the easiest way to get them to write. Personal narratives give them the opportunity to bring out the stories that make up who they are. So, let's discover some ways to help our ESL students bring those stories to life in a way that makes sense to them and to the reader.