99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP Model [Paperback] 

This long-awaited new book by acclaimed authors MaryEllen Vogt and Jana Echevarria offers research-based, SIOP®-tested techniques for lessons that include the eight SIOP® components. The 99 ideas and activities in this book include a few familiar techniques that have been shown to be especially effective for ELLs, as well as many new ideas for SIOP® teachers. All promote student-to-student and teacher-to-student interaction and involvement proven to be so necessary for English language acquisition and content development. This book is surely to become an indispensable resource for teachers of English learners.

What makes 99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP® Model  a must-have?

• Offers step-by-step directions and examples of content and language objectives for all ideas and activities. 
• Provides use-tomorrow ideas and activities for implementing the eight components of the SIOP® Model.
• Includes 12 sample lesson plans that illustrate how a particular activity can be effective for ALL students, and all of these sample lessons are adapted for both elementary and secondary students.
• Features classroom-ready content and language objectives for all relevant activities.

 March, 2007

Aligns with Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners.

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Teach vocabulary in any language with over 400 reproducible photo cards, games, puzzles, and activities! ALL of the activities provided are effective for ALL children, whether they are learning a first, second, or even a third language. The photo cards and games can be reproduced and used for classroom "English" activities, and additional sets can be sent home with the children for "home" language learning. Important themes include: actions, colors, shapes, clothing, food, everyday objects, school tools, people, careers, toys, family, and many more! 96 pages.

all ages

all grades

Teaching Tip: Head Notes

Material Code: 0170

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Discover the transformative learning power of using your own students' lives—their stories, their ideas, their real-life concerns—as a basis for your lessons! How is this possible? The secret is in the symbols—simple drawings that serve as immediate cues for speaking. You’ll learn how to quickly and easily use these symbols to create lessons on the spot. This highly acclaimed resource shares over 100 ideas for lesson topics, 32 photocopiable lessons, a practical symbol guide, and a dictionary of over 500 easy-to-copy symbols with both an English and a Spanish index. A MUST for every language teacher's library.

all ages

all grades

Teaching Tip: Giving Clear Directions

Material Code: 0280

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This is the ideal book for ESL Fundamentals for Mainstream Teachers in Elementary and Middle Schools--this resource book features 130 reproducible activities for teachers of grades 2-8 who have ESL and newcomer students. The book also contains hundreds of insights, practical ideas, notes on culture shock and language acquisition, plus strategies, tips, and lesson plans to help social and academic adjustment. Activities help develop vocabulary, listening skills, reading, writing, following directions, math, health, and more, giving teachers a wealth of ready-to-use classroom material. The easy-to-read text and clearly illustrated activity pages will provide months of stimulating language-learning tasks.

ages 7-18

grades 2-12

Material Code: 0460

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Conversation Inspirations: Over Two Thousand Conversation Topics 

You’ll no longer have to strain your brain to get your students conversing in English . . . simply pick up this classic resource and instantly photocopy the material of your choice for non-stop conversational interaction. Role plays, interviews, discussion questions, chain stories . . . each activity structure abounds with topics, ideas, and variations. Most activities revolve around the hands-on use of index cards and cover everyday subjects from giving directions and watching television to parent-child interactions, cultural misunderstandings, finding a job, and the environment.

16 and up

10th grade to adult education

Material Code: 0790

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Turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. Daily Warm-Ups jump-starts your classes with easy-to-use activities that reinforce and enhance your students’ English skills skills. Helps students understand, write, and communicate more effectively. Strengthens vocabulary and critical-thinking skills. 180 short five- to ten-minute activities with answer key. Correlated to state guidelines and NCTE/IRA standards. Transforms downtime into learning time. ©2002, 187 pages, 8 x 5 inches, reproducible, softbound.

All Ages

All Grades

Material Code 0140

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Containing 12,000 synonyms, 10,000 antonyms, and 2,000 homonyms, this versatile book is the perfect reference tool for higher level English learners to improve their writing. Not only will it help students expand their vocabularies, this lightweight volume will help young people pick the perfect words to express their thought and feelings.

Material Code: 0471

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Cook up spaghetti, rent a DVD, sharpen a pencil . . . learning is doing in this volume of action sequences. Each of the 75 sequences is presented in a photocopiable, card-like format, making it easy for students to use them in a variety of ways—they can dictate and mime the actions; change the verb tense; change the content from first person to third person, singular to plural; add connectors . . . the list is endless—and a great way to say goodbye to tedious seatwork! Teaching notes in the back make it especially easy to manipulate the cards. Sequences do not exceed eight lines of eight words each, making them friendly for multi-level contexts. Now, why don’t we go ahead and order a pizza and play bingo! Formerly titled ESL Operations.

all grades

all ages

Material Code: 0290

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An ideal resource for developing reading comprehension and writing skills. Includes 200 graphic organizers and blackline masters—more than any other book! Improves higher-order thinking skills as students identify main ideas, extract details, sequence events, compare and contrast, distinguish fact from opinion and determine cause and effect. Includes word charts, cluster webs, story and main idea maps, fishbone organizers, Venn diagrams, writing organizers and more to encourage a deeper level of comprehension. Helps prepare mainstream students and ELLs for the extended response section of standardized tests—also great for in-class assessments. Provides 208 spiral-bound pages featuring 200 graphic organizers and blackline masters for easy photocopying.

5 years-adult

Kindergarten-Adult

Material Code: 0590

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Easy & Engaging ESL Activities and Mini-Books for Every Classroom. Features terrific teaching tips, games, mini-books and more to help new students from every nation build basic English vocabulary and feel welcome. This quick and easy guide can help with tips for preparing for your new student, assessing the child's needs and abilities, communicating with the student's family, and much more. 64 pages.

5 years and up

Kindergarten-10th grade

Material Code: 0490

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Now There are Even More Ways to Teach ESL! Written by a team of top ESL specialists, here is everything you need to teach beginning learners of English as a second language. Games, oral, and visual exercises are used to make learning enjoyable and socially engaging. Complete templates for all games are included. A range of individual activities using visual, written and kinesthetic skills round out this resource. Care has been taken to ensure the pictures are simple but realistic so they are both easy to interpret as well as suitable for all ages. 80 pages.

6-12 years

1st to 8th grade

Material Code: 0650

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ELL/ESL Teaching Resource Library  Principals! Administrators! Language Educators! Get a comprehensive set of books to support teaching faculty plan and implement engaging ESL or sheltered instruction.  Make the library available to all of your faculty that teach language learners to enhance your instructional program!  The full set of 15 books offers you teaching ideas, reference materials, clear descriptions and how-to for sheltering instruction, picture dictionaries and more!  The mini set of 5 books offers teachers the foundational texts for teaching English Language Learners to help them improve their instruction to make it more accessible!

The ESL Teaching Resource Full Library includes 15 Essential Books:

99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners

Get Them Talking! Theater Games & Storytelling Techniques and More

ESL/ELL Teacher's Book of Lists

Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model (3rd Edition)

Teaching English Language Learners Strategies That Work

Do As I Say: Operations, Procedures, & Rituals for Language Acquisition

Encyclopedia of Language Arts Blackline Masters

Chalk Talks: Visual Cues Discussions and Conversation

Idiom Dictionary

I Have, Who Has? 38 Interactive Language Arts Card Games

Second Language Learning Through Cooperative Learning

Sequences: Picture Stories for ESL

The ESL Miscellany: A Treasury of Cultural & Linguistic Information, 4th Edition

Heinle Picture Dictionary for Children

Let's Chat! Creative Communicative Activities for All Language Learners

Principals! Administrators! Language Educators! Get a comprehensive set of books to support teaching faculty plan and implement engaging ESL or sheltered instruction.  Make the library available to all of your faculty that teach language learners to enhance your instructional program!  The full set of 15 books offers you teaching ideas, reference materials, clear descriptions and how-to for sheltering instruction, picture dictionaries and more!  The mini set of 5 books offers teachers the foundational texts for teaching English Language Learners to help them improve their instruction to make it more accessible!The ESL Mini Resource library includes 5 Essential Books:

99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners

Get Them Talking! Theater Games & Storytelling Techniques and More

ESL/ELL Teacher's Book of Lists

Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model (3rd Edition)

Teaching English Language Learners Strategies That Work

This unique teacher time-saver includes scores of helpful, practical lists that may be reproduced for classroom use or referred to in the development of instructional materials and lessons. The material contained in this book helps K-Adult teachers reinforce and enhance the learning of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and writing skills in ESL students of all ability levels. For easy use and quick access, the lists are printed in a format that can be photocopied as many times as required. A complete, thoroughly updated glossary at the end provides an indispensable guide to the specialized language of ESL instruction. Use this book as a reference tool for better understanding and a more comprehensive treatment of the parts of language that you are teaching. Lists include such topics as idioms, household items, weather, safety etc.

all ages

all grades

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Ideal for classrooms with three or four students in need of ESL materials! An easy-to-implement, effective way for teachers to address the varying needs of second language learners in their classrooms. ESL addresses the specific problems experienced by speakers of different first languages—but lessons are designed for use by native speakers as well. Reproducible, extensive tips and techniques for making students feel at ease and eager to learn; Emphasis on vocabulary development; Convenient teacher direction includes how to introduce the lesson, extensions, and instructions for using the same activity at a variety of levels.

Reproducible, 128 pages. 

Presenting an easy-to-implement, effective way to address the varying needs of second language learners in your classroom! Age-appropriate, engaging activities address the specific problems experienced by speakers of different first languages - but lessons are designed for use by native speakers as well, making the program completely flexible and universal! Convenient teacher directions include how to introduce the lesson, multicultural connections, word explorations, extensions, and instructions for using the same activity at a variety of levels. 

The seventy five photographs of different people from several cultural backgrounds are featured in Every Picture Tells a Story makes for lively conversation, and each photo comes with an activities page to guarantee success. Besides the 5Ws and other questions, suggestions are given to make the students to use their imaginations and to get them to discuss wider world issues presented in or related to the photographs.

14 years and up

9th grade to adult education

Material Code: 0800

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This series of Reader's Theater books provides high-interest scripts featuring everything from amusing fables and fairy takes to inspiring inventors and historical heroes. Each script comes with explicit fluency instruction, a list of key vocabulary, and engaging comprehension activities. Each book describes in simple terms how to direct instruction and coach students as they practice their lines. Each unit can stand alone as fluency instruction or tie in to a related content-area unit. These resources meet instructional objectives as outlined in the No Child Left Behind Act. 96 pages each.

5 to 8 years

Kindergarten-3rd grade

Material Code: 0520

Aligns with Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners.

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Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPRS) is the secret to helping your students understand everything they hear in English from day one! This friendly resource explores TPRS essentials, how to maintain interest and an optimal pace, adapting textbooks for TPRS, to frequently asked questions, and the advantages of using TPRS. You’ll get a five-day lesson plan and guides for using TPRS in learners’ first through fourth years of English. Additional appendices feature updated research, TPRS sources, letters from teachers, and vocabulary lists. Stephen Krashen says, "TPR Storytelling is much better than enything else out there."

all ages

all grades

Material Code: 0360

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Help build the oral fluency of even the most reluctant readers with high-interest plays that provide the repeated practice students need to read with speed, automaticity, and expression. This collection of funny plays is designed to help keep kids interested and focused. With parts at different reading levels, every student in the class can have a chance to participate. Includes background and suggestions for building fluency and comprehension.

7-12 years

2nd-7th grade

Material Code: 0530

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This is the ideal book for every language teacher--and for students of all languages for all levels. It features: Examples in English, Spanish, French & German--Game boards, manipulative templates--Over 80 games and activities, plus countless variations--Written with easy step-by-step instructions. Contains, 16 chanting activities, 12 singing strategies, 8 instrumental music w/language ideas, 12 storytelling techniques (with established story) 12 storytelling techniques (students create original stories) 21 Theater Games & Improvisational Tactics.

all ages

all grades

Material Code: 0320

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This hands-on book profiles eight educators who have achieved exceptional results with their ELL students. Through highly readable portraits, the authors take readers into these teachers’ classrooms, illustrating richly what it is they do differently that yields such great results from English learners. The book shows how to implement RTI effectively with ELLs—from providing general reading instruction for the entire classroom to targeted interventions with struggling students. The book is filled with inspiring success stories, teaching tips, activities, discussion questions, and reflections from these outstanding teachers.

Paperback, 208 pages. 

K-6

The activities in this book consist of a series of questions and answer cards related to language structure and use. Students are actively engaged as each player answers a question and then asks the next question. For example, "Who has a synonym for hungry?" is answered by, "I have famished." and so on. Another example: "I have tower. Who has the noun in this sentence?: The mystery novel is thrilling to read" is answered by the student with the card: "I have novel. Who has the noun in this sentence?: I see a red truck?" When students reach the last card, they will find that it refers back tie the first card. Requires minimal preparation but results in maximum participation and effort. Covers standards-based skills such as synonyms and antonyms, compound words, homophones, prefixes and suffixes etc.

7-12 years old

2nd-7th grade

Material Code: 0560

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Idioms pose a challenge to ELLs.  Research says that idioms, like "go the extra mile" and "a piece of cake" for example, are particularly difficult for English Learners. Now understanding idioms is “easy as pie” with the revised Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms. This essential resource features explanations for more than 700 everyday idioms, kid-friendly sample sentences, alphabetical listings and an easy-to-use index. Paperback. 304 pp.

8 years and up

3rd grade and up

Material Code: 0470

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Teachers know that they must differentiate their instruction if they want to reach all their students. How can a teacher teach difficult content to all kinds of learners at the same time?How can English Language Learners access content in US History?

The authors of the  Include Me!© Series are painfully aware of the problem, being classroom teachers and resource teachers for many years. The series is picture based for better understanding of the concepts taught through the regular textbook. The activities are designed to both convey the core subject to all levels of learners and develop language at the same time. The Include Me!© Series’s  U.S History  contains eight units reinforced with the main vocabulary “glossary” in pictures, (in black and white for easy reproduction for the many suggested activities) puzzles in three levels, recall readings in three levels(picture readings, fill in the blank readings with or without word banks) and three levels of language development, flashcards and bingo games. The units covered are:

• First Americans
• European Exploration
• New England Colonial Life
• American Revolution
• Creating a New Nation
• Westward Movement
• Africans and Forced Migration
• Nation Divided

This book is also good for adult citizenship classes and Adult Basic Education classes with students with low literacy skills and/or limited English skills.

Teachers know that they must diversify their instruction if they want to reach all their students. In many classrooms there are divergent learners. Special education students, learning disabled and many levels of ELLs (English language learners or ESL students). How can  teachers effectively teach the subjects to all of them at the same time? The authors of the Include   Me ! © Series are painfully aware of this problem,being classroom teachers and resource teachers for many years. The series is pictures based for better understanding of the concepts taught through regular social studies textbooks. The activities are designed to both convey the core subject to all levels of learners and to develop language at the same time. The Include   Me ! © Series Ancient Civilizations contain nine units reinforced with the main vocabulary in pictures (in crisp black and white for easy reproduction for the many suggested activities), puzzles in three levels, recall readings in three levels and three levels of language development exercises. Also included are flashcards for all the over 150 pictures and bingo cards. The units covered in Include   Me ! © Series Ancient Civilizations are: 

Stone Age 

Mesopotamia 

Egypt 

Nubia 

China 

Greece 

Rome 

Mesoamerica

Indus Valley

Oral language development is often neglected. This book of almost 100 creative communicative activities is indispensable! Take a breather from technology, and bring speaking back to the world language classroom with new, creative, innovative and highly interactive activities to spark every level of verbal interaction from beginner to advanced. Use six of the many engaging and hands-on activities in this book that focus on areas of language development you’d like to see in your classroom. Gather the needed supplies and make 6 places in the classroom for small groups of students to work on the activities. Before setting them to work, create a model of the finished product for each activity and show them how to complete the center activity. Rotate students each hour or day of class, giving you 6 hours to observe and assess student language development as they work in the prepared centers.

all ages

all grades

Material Code: 0330

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Five short plays with multi-leveled reading parts to build fluency, engage all students and teach students about US civic culture. The leveled speaking parts in these fun-to-read plays encourage students with a range of reading abilities to participate in class and comprehend it all. As students read, review, and repeat their lines, they practice fluent oral reading. At the same time, they learn the history and importance of five key holidays: Independence Day, Labor Day, Presidents' Day, Earth Day, and Memorial Day. 80 pages.

6 to 12 years

1st-6th grades

Material Code: 0850

Aligns with Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners.

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See the picture—guess the word—in any language! This one-of-a-kind picture dictionary presents over 4,500 everyday words and expressions via bright, full-color illustrations. Unlike other picture dictionaries, however, it doesn’t label the pictures—its versatile format lets the reader place her/her own labels, create stories, make predictions, and more—transforming it into a personal workbook of words! Corresponding word/phrase lists are in the back to make self-study easy, plus the dictionary has its own website where you can access additional teaching suggestions. Quoted by many as “the best vocabulary book ever seen.”

all ages

all grades

Material Code: 0340

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One of the most influential books in the field in years!

Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP^® Model presents a coherent, specific, field-tested model of sheltered instruction that specifies the features of a high quality sheltered lesson that teaches content material to English language learners.

For twelve years, educators have turned to Jana Echevarría, MaryEllen Vogt, and Deborah Short for an empirically validated model of sheltered instruction. In the Third Edition of this best-seller, the authors include new research findings and studies on the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP^®) Model, which offers school administrators, teachers, teacher candidates, coaches, university faculty, and field experience supervisors a tool for observing and quantifying a teacher's implementation of quality sheltered instruction.

Take a Glimpse Inside the Third Edition:

• New, user-friendly format of the SIOP^® protocol.
•  Background Sections include descriptions of the eight components and thirty features of the SIOP^® Model, and are updated to reflect recent research and best practices to help readers plan and prepare effective sheltered lessons.
• Practical Guidelines to help readers develop effective language and content objectives.
• Discussion Questions have been rewritten and are appropriate for portfolio development in pre-service and graduate classes, for professional development workshops, or for teacher reflection and application.
• A groundbreaking CD-ROM with video clips, interviews of the authors, and reproducible resources (e.g., lesson plan formats), make this the perfect professional development asset for any grade level or content area teacher!

Teach vocabulary and communication skills with this cooperative game. Partners sit on opposite sides of a barrier. Each has a game board and game pieces copied from this book. For example, each student receives a zoo game board and zoo animal game pieces. One student places her animals in the empty spots on the zoo game board. Now here's the challenge: Through talking only, that student must describe how she arranged her animals in the zoo so her partner can "match" the layout. As students try to make a match ("place the zebra in the bottom space that has the tree on the right side"), they must communicate clearly using the target vocabulary. Book includes 30 games focusing on must-know vocabulary including: animals, food, clothes, transportation, weather, sports, human body, and many more. 136 pages.

all ages

all grades

Material Code: 0380

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The remarkable new edition of the best-selling Oxford Picture Dictionary is a wonderful reference book to introduce beginning English students to a core vocabulary. It features over 4,000 words and phrases illustrated with all new vibrant, crystal-clear artwork. The topics, based on extensive input from teachers and students, have been thoroughly updated to meet the needs of today's English language learners. It is available in eleven bilingual editions for Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Farsi, French, Haitian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

all ages

all grades

Material Code 0210

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Bilingual Dictionary for Chinese speaking teenage and adult students of English

Build your students' vocabulary, reading and critical thinking skills. A richly illustrated thematic dictionary with easy-to-learn vocabulary units supported by a full range of teacher and classroom resources. Content is organized within 12 thematic units, including Everyday Language, People, Housing, Food and Recreation.

Each unit starts with an Intro page (new to this edition) and ends with a story page, with single or double-page sub-topics introducing new words in a realistic visual context and easy-to-learn "chunks."

The target new vocabulary is listed and simple practice activities help students put their new words into practice.

Story pages include pre-reading questions to build previewing and predicting skills and post-reading questions and role-play activities to support critical thinking and to encourage students to use the new language they have learned.

Rich visual contexts recycle words from the unit. This structure is designed to address the needs of multilevel classrooms.

Supporting components include more guidance on this topic as well as assessing needs and lesson planning. (available in English only).

 Oxford Picture Dictionary English-Spanish: Bilingual Dictionary for Spanish speaking teenage and adult students of English [Paperback]

Content is organized within 12 thematic units, including Everyday Language, People, Housing, Food and Recreation.Each unit starts with an Intro page (new to this edition) and ends with a story page, with single or double-page sub-topics introducing new words in a realistic visual context and easy-to-learn "chunks." The target new vocabulary is listed and simple practice activities help students put their new words into practice. Story pages include pre-reading questions to build previewing and predicting skills and post-reading questions and role-play activities to support critical thinking and to encourage students to use the new language they have learned. Rich visual contexts recycle words from the unit. This structure is designed to address the needs of multilevel classrooms. 

Supporting components include more guidance on this topic as well as assessing needs and lesson planning. (available in English only).

Oxford Picture Dictionary English-Thai: Bilingual Dictionary for Thai speaking teenage and adult students of English [Paperback]

Content is organized within 12 thematic units, including Everyday Language, People, Housing, Food and Recreation.

Each unit starts with an Intro page (new to this edition) and ends with a story page, with single or double-page sub-topics introducing new words in a realistic visual context and easy-to-learn "chunks."

The target new vocabulary is listed and simple practice activities help students put their new words into practice.

Story pages include pre-reading questions to build previewing and predicting skills and post-reading questions and role-play activities to support critical thinking and to encourage students to use the new language they have learned.

Rich visual contexts recycle words from the unit. This structure is designed to address the needs of multilevel classrooms.

Supporting components include more guidance on this topic as well as assessing needs and lesson planning. (available in English only).

 

 Content is organized within 12 thematic units, including Everyday Language, People, Housing, Food and Recreation.

Each unit starts with an Intro page (new to this edition) and ends with a story page, with single or double-page sub-topics introducing new words in a realistic visual context and easy-to-learn "chunks."

The target new vocabulary is listed and simple practice activities help students put their new words into practice.

Story pages include pre-reading questions to build previewing and predicting skills and post-reading questions and role-play activities to support critical thinking and to encourage students to use the new language they have learned.

Rich visual contexts recycle words from the unit. This structure is designed to address the needs of multilevel classrooms.

Oxford Picture Dictionary English-Vietnamese: Bilingual Dictionary for Vietnamese speaking teenage and adult students of English [Paperback]

Content is organized within 12 thematic units, including Everyday Language, People, Housing, Food and Recreation.

Each unit starts with an Intro page (new to this edition) and ends with a story page, with single or double-page sub-topics introducing new words in a realistic visual context and easy-to-learn "chunks."

The target new vocabulary is listed and simple practice activities help students put their new words into practice.

Story pages include pre-reading questions to build previewing and predicting skills and post-reading questions and role-play activities to support critical thinking and to encourage students to use the new language they have learned.

Rich visual contexts recycle words from the unit. This structure is designed to address the needs of multilevel classrooms. 

Research shows that partner reading is an effective tool in building reading fluency. The whimsical reproducible poems in this collection were written especially for two students to take turns reading aloud. This experience strengthens both reading and listening skills as students are encouraged to give each other supportive feedback. Accompanying lessons, with think-aloud scripts, offer explicit instruction to help develop fluency.

7-12 years old

2nd-7th grades

Material Code: 0550

Aligns with Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners.

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Motivate even the most reluctant readers with this collection of read-aloud mini-plays with parts written at different levels. Perfect for building oral fluency, these plays cover high-interest topics, such as school situations, tall tales, and mysteries. Includes background and suggestions for building fluency and comprehension.

8-12 years old

3rd-7th grades

Material Code: 0540

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This book contains eight reproducible plays and an audio CD featuring excerpts of each play performed by professional actors who model the tone and bring the characters to life. In each play, the fluency levels of the roles are identified for the teacher-easy roles for less-fluent readers, moderate roles for more advanced readers. Included with each play are teacher notes and activity sheets that feature vocabulary, critical-thinking questions, and worksheets to help students demonstrate understanding.

12 -18 years

6th-12th grade

Material Code: 0690

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Offer students user-friendly access to the most common content area vocabulary in life, Earth, physical and space science lessons. Supports research-based best practice of direct vocabulary instruction as a means of developing background knowledge needed for success on standardized tests. Features 168 words with definitions in English and Spanish, alphabetized by English entry. Provides full-color, real-life photography and example sentences modeling context and usage of each word. Works well for science and content area reading instruction in mainstream classrooms and ELL and dual-language programs. Includes 64 pages

5-12 years

Kindergarten-12th grade

Material Code: 0610

Aligns with Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners.

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Second Language Learning Through Cooperative Learning by Julie High. Your ESL and foreign language students will be talking right away! Students love this rich array of cooperative learning games, lessons, and activities. You will promote language acquisition through a communicative approach. The book includes sections on: co-op structures, social roles, getting to know you, making words mine, guided grammar experiences, writing skills, and lesson designs. 134 pages.

all ages

all grades

Material Code: 0390

Aligns with Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners.

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The material in this book is aimed at promoting listening, speaking, reading, vocabulary and writing through picture stories. It includes 60 units full of drawings, and on each drawings pages there is a sequence of six drawings mostly without words or captions. The events pictured are focused on everyday life situations, such as going grocery shopping or visiting a doctor. Each drawings page is complimented by a page of simple vocabulary exercises that can be used individually, in small groups, or whole class orally or in writing.

all ages

all grades

Teaching Tip: Illustrate It!

Material Code: 0450

Aligns with Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners.

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Help build students' reading fluency and build awareness of important people in U.S. history through fact-based, original plays about 22 famous Americans. These read-aloud biographical plays provide kids with the repeated practice they need to read with speed, automaticity, and expression-the key elements of fluency. Background information, discussion questions, extension activities, and literature links round out this versatile resource. A great way to connect social studies content with reading! For use with Grades 4-8.

8-14 years

4th-8th grades

Material Code: 0700

Aligns with Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners.

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Strategies That Work, Grades 6-12 By Katharine Samway
- Provides situations and issues that teachers may encounter when working with ELLs, and offers grade-level appropriate solutions, teaching approaches, and activities to address them.
- Each chapter opens with a brief overview of relevant research and key teaching principles.
- Suggests strategies and solutions for quick, targeted help that address reading, writing, oral language, assessment, and home-school issues.
- Provides cultural information on 20+ cultural groups that are most prevalent in North America.
- Lists native language information for the 20+ languages that are most dominant in North America, including features that may transfer to English.
- Offers extensive list of distributors and publishers of books in ELLs' native languages and bilingual books.

320 pages 8 1/2" x 11"

Grades 6 & Up

12 years and up

Material Code 0760

Aligns with Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners.

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The Big Book of Matching Exercises includes 200 reproducible units for teaching ESL.These units include word-matching exercises, fill-in-the-blanks, and multiple lessons on topics such as: Headwords, Parts of Speech, Pronouns, Regular & Irregular Verbs, If Clauses, Tag Questions, Opposites, Sentence Combining, Context Clues, Adjective Clauses, Direct & Indirect Speech, Adverbs, Articles, Prepositions, World Capitals, U.S.A. State Capitals, Canadian Provincial & Territorial Capitals and much, much more.

All ages

All grades

Material Code 0780

Aligns with Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners.

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The “list-mania” library! All topics have been carefully reconsidered, updated, and in some cases amplified. This classic treasury of information offers completely photocopiable lists for everything and anything you’ll ever want to incorporate into your ESL lessons. The five sections are The Linguistic Aspect (lists of minimal pairs, irregular verbs, common idioms, prefixes and suffixes, verbs followed by infinitives, and more); The Communicative Aspect (lists for food, travel, weather, colors, emotions, finances, jobs, educations, surviving, and more); The Cultural Aspect (lists of immigration statistics, US Presidents, heroes in history, holidays, US documents, folk songs, and more); The Metalinguistic Aspect (lists of grammatical terms, phonetic alphabets, high-frequency words, abbreviations, a world atlas, and more); and The Paralinguistic Aspect (pictures of classroom gestures, societal greetings, ways to show emotion, and more). Use the lists for your own reference, as handouts, to design worksheets, or develop a curriculum from scratch—it’s like finding gold at the end of a rainbow!

all ages

all grades

Material Code: 0300

Aligns with Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners.

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The Heinle Picture Dictionary for Children is the only children's dictionary that presents vocabulary within thematic readings and offers opportunities for multi-level practice of every word introduced to help develop English language skills.

• 1,100 words are taught contextually through colorful illustrations and photographs, readings, and activities in eight thematic units.
• Students encounter words in context through "Rhyme Time" and "Fun Facts" readings.
• "Playing With Words" offers fun activities in which students increase semantic understanding and develop their language skills.

This book shows you how to go from zero to correct spoken fluency with TPR. Total Physical Response is generally thought to be only the use and performance of commands. This approach can be used to teach a variety of language skills and structures at all levels. Features include: 7 ways to teach tenses and verb forms, how to develop fluency and connected discourse, numerous examples in detail of how to bring about the natural acquisition of grammatical structures and idioms, 4 basic types of TPR exercises, a clear and detailed description of TPR. In English with examples in various languages. Softbound, 6" x 9", 178 pgs.

all ages

all grades

Material Code 0190

Aligns with Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners.

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