Is and Are Detective Worksheet

A two-part ESL unit for third and fourth grade multilingual learners focusing on foundational phonics with -ck endings and communicative modal language structures with can and can't.

A differentiated lesson resource set providing informational essay structure quizzes and graphic organizers for English language learners across proficiency levels.

A non-evaluative classroom observation and collaborative feedback protocol designed for ELD specialists visiting content classrooms. It features low-inference student evidence logging, asset-based guiding domains, and a strengths-focused debrief structure to co-plan multilingual learner scaffolds.

A two-day early literacy sequence for kindergarten and first grade ESL newcomers focusing on letter identification, phonemic awareness, and formation for letters H through M.

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.

A comprehensive, printable bilingual quick-reference guide featuring the 50 most essential classroom phrases in English and Spanish. Organized into six distinct communication categories covering question-asking, directions, permissions, group collaboration, and discussion.

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 2-page scaffolded phonics and syllable division worksheet tailored for Grade 3 ESL Level 2 learners. Includes multisensory chin-drop and clap strategies, compound word division, VC/CV rabbit rules, syllable slashing, and puzzle matching.

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.

A 2-page consonant sound /f/ phonics worksheet tailored for Grade 3 ESL learners. It features mouth positioning cues, sound position identification (beginning, middle, end), cloze sentences with word banks, and an /f/ versus /v/ pronunciation discrimination activity.