This site is a community of teachers using Restorative Practices in their classrooms. It is a useful place to find ideas and strategies to enhance your use of Restorative Practices, including class activities, games, labs, and an overarching philosophy of restorative practices.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive
This light activity deals with "silent letters" of English language which are encountered in a large number of English language words. Students read a fairly simple dialogue with the blanks for words containing silent letters. Silent letters, however, are listed while the rest of the letters are blanked. Students find the missing words and become aware of silent letters. Great activity for a warm-up.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
The website is a repository of games and activities for children that can also be used with adults. Features hundreds of games listed covering virtually all occasions: day or night, indoor and outdoor, from small quiet games through to large boisterous games and wide games for when you have acres of space to play in.
Material Type: Game
Career Gates: Soft Skills highlights the skills employees need to be successful. These include communication, eye-contact, listening, teamwork, positive attitude, proper handshake, professional appearance and respect. Soft skills are the abilities to get along with others, resolve conflict and work together towards a common goal. These skills can be a strong indicator in why you get a job or why you don't get a job. A desire to learn and an ability to learn, you can advance. Many companies will hire people that have soft skills over someone with more technical skills because technical skills can be taught more easily.
Material Type: Lecture
Study Zone is made up of levels. Each level has language topics (grammar,reading vocabulary, puzzles). Each topic has lessons. Lessons include exercises to help adult students improve their English. There are five levels available: Upper Beginner, Lower Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper Intermediate, and Advanced.
Material Type: Interactive
Tutorial on count and non-count nouns. Continuation of Part One
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration
This is a lesson plan, student worksheet, and teacher answer key to introduce identifying text structures and using appropriate graphic organizers (GO) for each text structure. There is an introduction with a video lecture from which students can get basic information and examples on 6 text structures. There is a link to more guided and independent work in this area. The author used this lesson in a pre-GED Adult Basic Education class with non-native English speakers who read at a 5.0 - 8.0 GLE.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This is a review lesson on author's purpose. There is a short review of the three primary purposes followed by 20 examples. Students read the example to decide which purpose best fits.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
This powerpoint explains 7 nouns types; possessive, common, proper, singular, plural, concrete and abstract.
Material Type: Lesson
This is a PowerPoint of common verbs used in the workplace and at home. It can be used for beginning level English language learners. Part 1 uses clip art of 16 verbs and part 2 uses Brendan Tuttle’s artistic illustrations of 28 verbs. The additional PowerPoint is a handout for students to write the verb under the picture and there is also a list of suggested activities for the teacher.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration
Using a predefined “Robot Vocabulary” your students will figure out how to guide one another to accomplish specific tasks without discussing them first. This segment teaches students the connection between symbols and actions, as well as the valuable skill of debugging. If time allows, there is an option to introduce functions at the end of the lesson. Objectives: • Learn to convert real-world activities into instructions • Gain practice coding instructions with symbols • Gain understanding of the need for precision in coding • Gain practice debugging malfunctioning code • Understand the usefulness of functions and parameters (grades 7+)
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This is a PowerPoint of 12 vocabulary words which are common containers or partitives. The final slide contains suggested activities for the classroom.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
A PowerPoint about a teacher going through breast cancer for a high beginning level ESOL class. Worksheets and suggested exercises are also on the PowerPoint.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Interactive
This presentation is a stAIR Design. It is like an interactive PowerPoint Presentation that reviews the language and concepts of comparison and contrast in order to help students understand those vocabulary words. The presentation was helpful for beginning and intermediate ESOL students and includes keyword Vocabulary: (and), (both..and),(not only...but also), and (but). Part 2 is more advanced and contains keyword vocabulary: (equally), (just like), (similar), (the same as), (although), (different), (unlike), (whereas), and (while).
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
This interactive power point presentation is good for intermediate and advanced English Language Learners. The presentation is used to help students learn how to integrate commas into writing. The presentation includes an introduction, comma rules, and application/practice exercises. Integrates simple technology skills along the way. The Person using this presentation will need to choose "Comma Use StAIR " from the menu after following the URL Pointer. Also, I had to download and save the ppt., before I could open it.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Interactive
In response to the police shooting of Mike Brown and the numerous protests and civil unrest that followed the shooting and grand jury decision, students were eager to learn about what was going on in St. Louis and Ferguson. Students saw boarded up windows walking to class. Some were afraid and not sure of their safety. They were encouraged to talk to staff about their fears and general personal safety lessons were also reviewed. The following is a story based on what was in the news. Suggested activities include: showing videos and news pictures from the web. Circle key words. Alphabetize key words. Ask students “What’s number 3?, 5?” Etc. Students can also do this in pairs. Worksheet of questions about the story. Students can also read these in pairs when completed. True false worksheet. Cloze of part of the story. Multi-level dictation of the story. Matching pictures to key words. Discussion about civil rights history, racism, police, safety.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This lesson works well with developing writers to help them learn to incorporate strong sensory adjectives into their writing. Students begin by completing a Five Senses Chart and progress to writing a full descriptive paragraph based on a picture prompt. This material was remixed based on "I Spy": Using adjectives and descriptive phrases by Elizabeth Hutchens. The remixed lesson was created to be used with adult learners. The original lesson can be found by clicking on the link that is included with this resource.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This lesson plan centers on a fun, interactive activity that allows students to explore and understand common English idioms.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is a picture story and worksheets to help low level English language learners understand how to get help will filing their taxes and what documents are needed.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Primary Source
This activity is an ESL lesson about health suitable for teens and adults. It includes questions about health and a video about fast food restaurants with a listening activity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lecture
