First Hello Academy

A comprehensive 7-session, 20-minute targeted bootcamp preparing 5th to 8th grade English learners for the WIDA ACCESS Speaking and Writing domains. Students master test navigation, oral and written sentence expansion, paragraph architecture, visual-to-text reporting, argumentative defense, and timed constructed responses.

Provides a culminating timed simulation of WIDA speaking and listening tasks with countdown clocks, peer feedback rubrics, test anxiety calming techniques, and final test-day strategies.

A 3-page teacher and audio script guide covering the fun parent ice-breaker, a ready-to-record listening & speaking audio script, and step-by-step facilitation scripts for group work, role-play (basic goodbyes & first-day dialogue), individual practice, and celebration wrap-up.

A comprehensive foundational ESL sequence for 1st grade English learners focusing on classroom survival language, early emergent reading, and vocabulary building through multisensory instruction.

Trains students to express, support, and elaborate their opinions on school-based scenarios and academic issues, utilizing claim-evidence-reasoning structures and comparative discourse markers.

A 1-page printable trilingual Home Language Glossary for beginner adult ESL parents featuring English phrases with Spanish and French translations across greetings, "How are you?", introductions, and goodbyes.

A two-part ELD instructional sequence for middle school students focused on elevating explanatory syntax from sentence-combining foundations to cohesive paragraph renovation using conjunctions and transitions.

Teaches students how to tackle multi-panel picture sequence tasks and science/social studies process prompts using sequential transitions and precise domain-specific terminology.

A two-part ESL instructional unit for third and fourth grade English learners focusing on descriptive sentence structures and ending blend phonics literacy. Each lesson includes a standards-aligned daily planner matrix, instructional presentation slides, and scaffolded student worksheets.

Focuses on the WIDA speaking rubric dimension of linguistic complexity, teaching students how to transform simple Level 2-3 phrases into expanded compound-complex sentences with academic conjunctions.

Equips students to transform science and social studies diagrams, bar graphs, and visual processes into structured informational writing for WIDA Tier B/C writing tasks.

Trains students on the WIDA writing rubric dimensions of discourse complexity and language control. Students craft cohesive academic paragraphs with topic claims, evidence, and transitional cohesion.