Using positive gestures and tone of voice can help ELL learners feel at ease. This can help them feel comfortable and safe in their learning environment. A start for this is to simply smile and keep a calm and relaxed body.  Incorporating play-based learning is also an opportunity to model positive gestures.  Throughout the day, model acceptance of others to encourage this welcoming atmosphere.


With this strategy Teachers are learning as much personal information about each student so that a bond in formed and the child builds trust.

This is beneficial to the student because it creates a safe enviornment for the them.   

I will apply this strategy to my classroom so that each student feel safe.  This will help with the learning process

As often as possible, try to use visuals and add images in daily activities and work. You can make mini books for the students because this type of source provides visual support for learners.   Each activity will promote the useage of vocabulary words.


this will be beneficial to the students because it gives them a picture that goes with the words that might be in a story that is being read to them.  

I will use this in my classroom so that the ELLs have a reference to what a word might mean.

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Technology may or may not be something that ELL students are comfortable using. However, don’t be afraid to give it a try and incorporate helpful websites into your daily routine. The fact that most of these sites will read and speak to your students while they work on tasks is an added bonus. There are numerous sites and apps that students can use individually or that can be modeled and used in a whole group environment. A few suggestions are:

This Activity will help thhe students the students get more familiar with using a computer.  it will allow them to visit different sights to aid in their learning.

this will be benefical to the students because technology is growing and the students need to be aware of what they can access to help with their vocabulary.

I will use these websites for my students as a different type of learning tool.

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Although students are learning a new language,  they have many personal experiences that can help support learning. Consider students’ background knowledge. How can you help activate that background knowledge in order to make learning more meaningful and impactful?

Even if you don’t have any background knowledge to build upon, you can create shared experiences for your students. Read a book on the topic, watch a short instructional video, or create a “being there” experience in your classroom. By incorporating these strategies into your instruction, your students, both ELL, and non, will have prior information they can link new knowledge to.


With this strategy Teachers are learning as much personal information about each student so that a bond in formed and the child builds trust.

This is beneficial to the student because it creates a safe enviornment for the them.   

I will apply this strategy to my classroom so that each student feel safe. This will help with the learning process

This card game is very flexible to whatever content you’d like to practice. For example, to learn letters/sounds/printed words, you could use flashcards with the target letters or words. If you are practicing English vocabulary, then picture cards are clearly better. For numbers you could have the actual number written on the card, or representations of numbers (i.e. dots, or a series of small pictures such as three dogs). Or you can even use regular playing cards to teach numbers with this game.

Preparing the cards

For the main game, you would need enough cards for each student (or pair, or group) to have identical sets of cards. Below we will also look at some variations that require just a single deck of cards.

You can use ready-made cards, or make your own. If you make your own:

Playing the game

If each student (or pair, or group) has an identical set of cards, then you can begin play by asking “Who can…?”

Possible questions include:

It can be competitive, as pairs/groups race against the others to follow the command, and there could also be points. There could even be a reward for the winner(s) at the end.

If you are using a single set of cards for the whole class, students could also compete individually or in pairs/groups with the following ideas.

Again it can be as competitive as you choose, with points and/or rewards for winners (or everyone) and winning students could also have turns at calling which card is the next target. Build suspense as you pause when calling which card they should be looking for.

This activity is great for the students to learn different words and helps them build on what they may already know.

This activity is beneficial to the students because it increases their vocabulary and reading skills.

I will use this is my classroom because it is a great tool to have to build voabulary.

FluentU takes authentic videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language lessons.

You can also browse the FluentU blogs for English teachers and learners to gather tons of lesson ideas. You will find additional blogs focused on standardized English tests and business English for the more developed learner.




This Activity will help thhe students the students get more familiar with using a computer.  it will allow them to visit different sights to aid in their learning.

this will be benefical to the students because technology is growing and the students need to be aware of what they can access to help with their vocabulary.

I will use these websites for my students as a different type of learning tool.

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This ELL website was established by the National Institute of Environmental Health Services (NIH) in an effort to combine learning with informative information about health, ecology, the environment, science and other important issues.

NIH Kids’ Pages has a lot of excellent ELL content you and your students can benefit from. The material is perfect for students from grades 5 to 8. It conveys relatable issues and information in a way that’s easy to understand.

You can draw exceptional ideas from this website and incorporate them into a lesson or browse the website together with your students. The Topics page, for example, offers a handful of topics your students can dive into in a fun and interactive way.

NIH Kids’ Pages gives access to videos, key vocabulary, readings and many more interactive and enticing resources to help students learn.

The site also has a Lesson Plans & Activities page with an assortment of printable material perfect for any ELL classroom. The printable content covers booklets, fact sheets, interviews, flyers, lesson plans, presentations and a whole lot more

This Activity will help thhe students the students get more familiar with using a computer.  it will allow them to visit different sights to aid in their learning.

this will be benefical to the students because technology is growing and the students need to be aware of what they can access to help with their vocabulary.

I will use these websites for my students as a different type of learning tool.

Playing with playdough is an activity loved by children of all ages, and probably not used enough in the classroom considering the benefits that it offers the children in their learning.

Making the playdough

Firstly, you can make some homemade dough using these instructions. There are cooked and uncooked recipes, but I much prefer the texture of the cooked playdough, and it lasts much longer. (If you keep it in a zip-lock bag in the fridge it can last for weeks!) The ingredients are cheap and available in the supermarket, so you can easily make several different colored batches.

You could also let the children make the dough, which in that case it would be better to use the uncooked variety. This activity is in itself a valuable language learning activity, as you carefully demonstrate and give each instruction in English.

Playing with the playdough

Just playing with the dough is an activity that children will enjoy and benefit from, but you can spice it up by adding some competition with a challenge, or by cooperating together in a game. Here are some ideas to start:

Here is a final game using playdough:

This activity is great for the students to learn different words and helps them build on what they may already know.

This activity is beneficial to the students because it increases their vocabulary and reading skills.

I will use this is my classroom because it is a great tool to have to build voabulary.

When little students have enough vocabulary to describe basic things like fruits, furniture, and animals, you may conduct a revision game. You need some baskets to prepare, the amount of those depend on the number of categories you want to have.

There might be following groups:

Write down relevant words to each category on small pieces of paper and put them on a surface. Everybody should move quickly as possible to take a sticker and choose what category it fits. Then one by one, they run to a certain basket with that category and put the word in it.

Who are you?

Jobs is one of the basic topics. That's a chance to have a role-play and an introduction game with little English learners. Write down all professions on stickers and give to everyone. Each kid should explain the job with some prompts, whereas others must guess it.

If it seems difficult, assign learners to think of only one fact. If the word is «chef», a child may say, «I cook food», or «I make dinner». Also, you can change the rules and explain different professions, where children have to listen to you carefully and answer correctl

This activity is great for the students to learn different words and helps them build on what they may already know.

This activity is beneficial to the students because it increases their vocabulary and reading skills.

I will use this is my classroom because it is a great tool to have to build voabulary.

This is a challenging, but fun game that kindergarten kids love playing. You make cards that are in pairs. What can be on each card depends on the level of the student. However, with kindy kids, it may be quite simple pictures and words. For example, cat, dog, blue, red, etc.

Then, you place the cards facedown and the first student has to pick two cards. Turn them over, and if they’re a match, they get to keep them. If not, turn them over in the same spot and the next student goes.

This memory game is an excellent way to review vocabulary. Learn more about it here:

This activity is great for the students to learn different words and helps them build on what they may already know.

This activity is beneficial to the students because it increases their vocabulary and reading skills.

I will use this is my classroom because it is a great tool to have to build voabulary.

You can bring up different topics such as traveling, food, sports, characters, etc. The students will run to the corner with what label they feel toward that subject. This can be a fun way to start a conversation and get to know your students. 

Perfect for ELL students as you can easily translate words for those who need the translation and doesn't take up much time.

This activity is another get to know you game.   This developes relationships among thie students.

This would be beneficial to the students because they  will build bonds with their classmates while learning more about them.

I use this activity alot because the students really enjoy it.

A sharing circle is a fun way to introduce ourselves, The teacher and the students sit on the floor in a circle. The teacher has a ball and rolls it to the student who is ready to share 3 facts about themselves. First, they will share their name. Secondly, they can add their age or favorite color and third, they can share whatever they would like to share. Some students may feel intimidated or too shy to say anything. This is why I said the teacher will roll the ball to who ever is ready to share.

This activity will help the students learn different things about thier classmates.  Being able to understand where each person is coming from will create bonds between everyone.

This would be beneficial to the students because they  will build bonds with their classmates while learning more about them.

I use this activity alot because the students really enjoy it.

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writing and speaking, the productive skills, accompanied

with a word bank, word phrases, and/or pictures

Using sentence frames helps students get more familiar with how sentence are set up so that they can add on to what is said.  It gives them help starting their own story. 

Using sentence frames will allow ELL’s to be able to add words so that they can have stories making sense.  this will help them get more comfortable with words and how they are organized in sentences.

I will use sentence frames in my classroom when we are writing each day.

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