abcteach: Printable Worksheets, Common Core Activities, Smart Board Interactive Story Starters: Creative Writing Prompts for Kids If you’re looking to inspire your students’ writing and creativity, turn to these fun and exciting writing prompts. Perfect for overcoming writer’s block or even starting a brand-new short story in a different narrative, creative writing prompts can help students begin a new piece with confidence. Plus, these story starters can also encourage students to explore different genres while honing their writing skills. There are a lot of ways you can use writing prompts in your classroom. Try: Reading a book in a genre, then having students use a story starter in that same genre. Take inspiration from classics like Treasure Island and newer popular series like The Bad Guys to explore how to write thrilling adventure stories. You’re part of a pirate crew in search of a long-lost storied treasure trove. Get students excited about adventure stories with these great books: If you’re looking to inspire your students’ writing and creativity, turn to these fun and exciting writing prompts.
English Reading Comprehension - Textos para aprender o practicar inglés - Comprensión escrita We offer you here some texts on various interesting subjects. You can practise reading comprehension and at the same time you will certainly learn something new. Each text is identified with an icon showing the level of English used on it. You will also find some questions to answer at the end of some texts to test your comprehension. Now you can also print the reading texts and the exercises. ¡Comparte esta página! Aquí te ofrecemos textos sobre varios temas interesantes. Cada texto está identificado con un símbolo que muestra el nivel de inglés del mismo. Además ahora puedes imprimir las lecturas y los ejercicios. Más ejercicios para practicar inglés Libros recomendados Intermediate English Reading and Comprehension Este libro contiene diversas lecturas con ejercicios para estudiantes de nivel intermedio. Fast Forward Reading English Reading: 10 Passages for English Learners
Starfall's Learn to Read with phonics Trading Card Creator The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples. This interactive allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept. These cards are can be used with any type of book students are reading or subjects that they are studying, and make for an excellent prewriting exercise for students who are writing narrative stories and need to consider characters, setting, and plot. Specific prompts guide student through the various types of cards, expanding students' thinking from the basic information and description of the topic to making personal connections to the subject. The save capability gives students a way to work on a draft of their card and come back to it to rework and revise as necessary, and to save their finished product to share with friends and family. back to top
Free ESL Worksheets, English Teaching Materials, ESL Lesson Plans Word Skills Board Game Words Skills is a fun game that is easy to play and can be used to review word skills such as indicating the beginning sound of a word, the ending sound of a word, middle sound of a word, rhymes, synonyms, and antonyms. It can be used as a stand alone board game or as a supplement for reviewing the 7 core phonics units at Lanternfish ESL (or any other similar phonics program). Why Word Skills? Word skills are a valuable tool for students as they set out on the road to becoming independent learners. Being able to talk about words is an essential skill language learners will need as they interact with their teachers to figure out spelling, pronunciation, and meaning of new words they encounter. There are three boards to download depending on whether you want to include Spelling and Past Tense squares or not.
Everything African teens surfing trains, an ancient form of soccer that is more akin to martial arts, and the aftermath of an unspeakable war-time tragedy, these are the stories highlighted… With science fiction story-lines and topics of sexuality proving to be big discussion starters here on Short of the Week, it would have seemed like an opportunity missed if we didn’t speak… From the hundreds of thousands of films released online last year to the 200+ we featured on Short of the Week to the 30 nominees and now to 9 winners… The votes for the 2014 Academy Awards are in and the little man has been been handed out to 3 lucky winners in the shorts categories. What’s your trigger? Laughter has a way of making the impossibly uncomfortable a bit more bearable. Whilst many fans of short film love the format for its ability to make us laugh or cry, what often goes unrecognised is the power these bitesize stories hold to…
Games for Learning English, Vocabulary, Grammar Games, Activities, ESL Prepositions: Vocabulary for Beginning Readers Vocabulary for Pre and Beginning Readers Basic vocabulary is necessary for a child as they begin to learn to read. Children learn the meanings of most words indirectly, through their everyday experiences. While most vocabulary is learnt indirectly, direct vocabulary learning in addition to indirect vocabulary learning is useful. About 300 more words can be learnt each year as a result of direct vocabulary instruction, (Stahl & Fairbanks, 1986). Basic vocabulary for beginning readers include: colours; prepositions; common objects and locations; pronouns; parts of everyday objects; adjectives; occupations; quantity words; materials; shapes; and patterns. Prepositions: Basic Vocabulary Here is a simple activity for assessing and teaching prepositions. This activity can be done with two cups and any other single item you have on hand, e.g. a pencil. Placing Batman in various positions relative to the cup/s, I simply asked, “Where is Batman?” Teaching Vocabulary through Modelling About the author
The Teacher's Corner - Lesson Plans, Worksheets and Activities Free ESL Fun Games, Interactive Grammar & Vocabulary Games for Classrooms Prepositions, for, since, with, in, by, ESL Grammar Fun Game, Pre-intermediate Practice the Prepositions, using this ESL Grammar Interactive Monkey Fun Game for pre-intermediate (to, against, of, for, since, with, in, by etc). ESL Learners and Teachers can use it to review English vocabulary and grammar or simply practice these words. This Sentence Monkey activity is great for this type of grammar practice. There are images and in some cases audio in these types of games. Drag and drop the words into the correct spaces to complete the sentence. After that, click SUBMIT. Games are great for motivating students to learn. More Games
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