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A comprehensive 5-day English as a New Language unit for 6th grade exploring food vocabulary, countable and uncountable nouns, cafeteria transactions, and healthy recipe writing. Students develop practical communicative fluency through visual vocabulary practice, role-play cafeteria simulations, and scaffolded creative writing tasks.

An engaging, hands-on ESL lesson where second graders master focus statements, key details, and conclusions through a collaborative detective matching game, guided teacher scaffolds, and differentiated practice.

Official Grades 9-12 WIDA Writing Rubric scoring matrix, detailed student rationales across Discourse, Sentence, and Word/Phrase dimensions, and targeted small-group instructional action plans for 25 high school multilingual learner writing samples on Seedfolks.

A 5-week foundational phonics and early literacy unit (2 lessons weekly, 10 lessons total) for secondary newcomer English learners (ELPA21 Level 1-2), centered on desert wildlife and systematically building from CVC decoding and blends to silent e, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams, diphthongs, and inflected endings.

A professional development session for secondary and middle school content teachers illustrating how the WIDA ACCESS exam tests disciplinary academic language rather than social conversational English. It equips math, science, and history educators with concrete disciplinary examples, Tier 2 vocabulary matrices, and classroom discourse routines to boost multilingual learner scores.

A comprehensive, ENL-scaffolded multiple choice vocabulary test covering tradition, culture, adapt, ancestors, represent, generations, and heritage. Features accessible definition matching, sentence context completion, and a student writing application section.

A 4-week foundational writing unit for ELPA21 Level 1-2 secondary English learners centered on desert wildlife, featuring 2 lessons per week with daily explicit encoding progressions, cumulative writing reviews, and structured academic sentence frames.

A fourth-grade ESL writing lesson advancing procedural and sequential writing using chronological transition words First, Next, and Last/Finally. Includes an academic lesson plan, a multi-step student process organizer, and a family coaching guide for upper-elementary multilingual learners.

Printable cut-and-glue sentence strips featuring 4 distinct paragraph mystery cases, each with 1 focus statement, 2 key details, and 1 conclusion ready for scissor work.

A 5-day foundational phonics and early literacy unit for ELPA21 Level 1-2 English learners, featuring 45-minute daily lessons centered on desert wildlife that systematically build word identification, CVC decoding, Elkonin box encoding, and decodable reading.

A high-energy, 20-minute hands-on ESL lesson for first graders introducing the concepts of perseverance and collaboration through partner building, physical gestures, and scaffolded reflection. Students build a freestanding paper card tower in pairs, practicing "keep trying" when it falls and "work together" to succeed.

A two-page historical reading adapted from McGraw Hill covering the Norman Conquest, Henry II, and the Magna Carta. Each of the seven paragraphs is numbered and paired with a concise Spanish summary alongside comprehensive ESL vocabulary glossaries, cognates, concept maps, and sentence frames.