This is a PowerPoint for beginning to intermediate level ESOL students with worksheets and activities including suggestions for a reader's theater activity of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Game, Interactive, Lesson Plan
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
ACES (Academic, Career & Employability Skills) The goal of ACES is to ensure that Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs are able to provide effective contextualized instruction integrating post-secondary education and training readiness, employability skills, and career readiness at all levels. The Transitions Integration Framework (TIF) is the cornerstone of ACES. It was designed to provide ABE programs and instructors with guidance on the effective integration of transitions skills into instruction at all levels of ABE. The TIF defines the academic, career, and employability skills essential for adult learners to successfully transition to post-secondary education, career training, the workplace, and community involvement. The ACES Resource Library contains tools to help ABE practitioners incorporate the TIF skills into lessons and instructional settings and provides materials that can be used directly with adult learners.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This video is excellent for students learning the alphabet. The video has real life pictures and speaks slowly. There is also video of a mouth forming the letters, sounds, and words. It is 9 min in length.
Material Type: Lecture
The Minnesota Literacy Council provides a wide variety of professionally written curriculum for adult ESL, adult literacy, and GED classes. The ESL Curriculum includes six months of comprehensive, life-skills based curriculum for pre-beginning and beginning level classes. The units in these curricula are based on themes that are applicable to adult ESL learners, aligned with the CASAS standards, and incorporate the ACES Transitions Skills Framework. Each unit includes explicit teacher instructions, a grammar focus, and printable handouts. GED Science and Mathematical Reasoning curricula are also available, as well as curriculum for employment readiness, technology mini-grants, and citizenship instruction. The site also includes curriculum units that were created in partnership with ECHO Minnesota. Topics covered are: voting, domestic violence, community resilience, tornado safety, and health.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will practice using a mouse in order to type onto a Google Doc T-chart .
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Designed for Adult Basic Education ESL levels 2-3, this is a Google Slides lesson to help students learn how to sign in to email and work on a Google Slide in English.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This lesson employs the use of a quiz created on Google Forms. When these forms are linked to a website (such as a classroom website) students can access them without needing a username or password. The primary purpose of this lesson to give students experience taking an online quiz, while simultaneously reinforcing academic content. The content of this quiz is Counting Money, although the numeracy goals are secondary to the digital literacy goals.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
These lesson plans and activities were developed by Janine Darragh, Gina Petrie, and Stan Pichinevskiy and were previously located on the Reaching for English app. Created for K-12 English teachers in Nicaragua, the materials may be used and adapted for any country's specific context and needs.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Book 2. High beginning grammar book in a 5-level series for ESL students. This is the second of the two books for beginners.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Textbook
The ESL Beginning Literacy Booklet contains +25 downloable and printable units designed for use with immigrants, refugees and low literate English Language learners.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Module, Reading
These lesson plans and activities were repurposed by Raquel Fernández Romero and were previously drafted by Janine Darragh, Gina Petrie, and Stan Pichinevskiy who created them for K-12 English teachers in Nicaragua. Now the activity will be carried out in a 4th grade of Primary Education but the materials may be used and adapted for any country's specific context and needs.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
I created a series of lessons that culminate in a student created document of themselves to post in the classroom (mini poster). The lessons focus on student interaction, dictation, grammar, writing, editing, typing and other digital literacy skills. This is more like a project that is broken down into lessons.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This lesson uses Google Docs. Students write WH questions and answer them, based on a newspaper article.
Material Type: Reading
This lesson presents guided practice for google slides, along with internet research practice, jobs awareness, and speaking practice.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Body language and micro-expressions can provide a wealth of information about a person's emotions, thoughts, and intentions. Regarding openness, certain gestures, postures, and facial expressions can indicate a person is receptive, accepting, or willing to engage. Here are 100 examples of body language and micro-expressions that may indicate openness:
Material Type: Student Guide
These lesson plans and activities were developed by Janine Darragh, Gina Petrie, and Stan Pichinevskiy and were previously located on the Reaching for English app. Created for K-12 English teachers in Nicaragua, the materials may be used and adapted for any country's specific context and needs.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
UNIT GOAL: To create a resume and cover letter for job search and to research skills needed for employment.UNIT OBJECTIVES:Effectively demonstrate the components of a resumeKnow why a cover letter must be included with a resumeUnderstand the importance of a resumeUnderstand the importance of a cover letterDemonstrate how to research companies for employment purposesMATERIALS:Computer with MS Word and Internet AccessComputer Template for Cover LetterComputer Template for ResumeBefore class: List objectives on projection screen using PowerPoint slideDISCUSSION:Why is research important in job search?What is research?When do you research a company?How do you research a company?How do you find out about companies hiring for postions you are interested in?What is a cover letter?What is a resume?ACTIVITIES:Use MS Word template to type a resumeUse MS Word template to type a cover letterPrint both documentsGo onto the internet and search for specific jobsWrite down three jobs that are of interest to youPrint out the web page for each company
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Digital Learn is a website with a variety of tutorials for adults who are new to using computers (on topics such as introduction to email, navigating a website, and online job searching).
Material Type: Interactive
Students create a spreadsheet to quantify, analyze and determine the experiences and views towards technology of the Computer Commuter users. Students create the layout of the spreadsheet that best suits the data in the survey. Questions are in different formats: multiple choice and short answer. The student must determine how to set up the spreadsheet to make the data easy and efficiently understandable.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Data Set, Lesson, Lesson Plan
