Engagement Activities by Brittany Plemmons

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Listen to a story and draw a picture with as many details as possible.

khutchinson54 — 2025-08-12 16:39:26 UTC

Listen to music and interpret the meaning.

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Stretch a sentence

shorchler — 2025-08-12 16:39:33 UTC

I like to have students listen to a song. Putting the lyrics on sentence strips, students place the sentences strips in order of the lyrics they heard.

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Sit back to back. One student describes a picture while the other draws it.

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Listen to a story and draw a picture with as many details as possible. Add labels or sentences. Retell the story to your partner.

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Sentence expansion activity to expand students' vocabulary and writing skills.

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Watch a brief video and fill in the blanks of a summary paragraph about the topic. (give a word bank for those who may need it)

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Transliteration--Listen to news, a song, etc. and have students write down words they recognize (beginners) all the way to summarizing the item listened to.

khutchinson54 — 2025-08-12 16:39:56 UTC

Read a passage and form a detailed paragraph using 'because-but-so'

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Info gap activities with word banks.

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Translate your favorite APPROPRIATE song.

khutchinson54 — 2025-08-12 16:40:50 UTC

Defending a topic from a characters point of view.

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Have a student ask questions about a topic and have another student answer. They can choose their next partner.

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Use a sequencing organizer to guide students as they read a short story.

khutchinson54 — 2025-08-12 16:41:18 UTC

Because-what-so

khutchinson54 — 2025-08-12 16:41:32 UTC

Kernel sentences

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Short story gap fill stories including a word bank

shorchler — 2025-08-12 16:42:04 UTC

Jigsawing!

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Chunk content text into sections. Have students summarize key points using because-but-so activity.

khutchinson54 — 2025-08-12 16:42:39 UTC

Roving paragraph frames with a partner

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Turn and Talk- Give each student a question; Student A asks the question and Student B responds. Provide response examples to help newcomers.

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Record themselves answering a question or responding to a prompt.

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"Be the teacher" I allow students to lead welcome and exit activities.

shorchler — 2025-08-12 16:43:16 UTC

I like to give multiple answer questions and have students defend the answer.

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Describe the picture in sentences of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 words.

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Individual reading conferences with goal setting.

khutchinson54 — 2025-08-12 16:43:33 UTC

Answering questions using sentence frames

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Individual writing conferences with goal setting.

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Pictionary is a classic as is charades.

shorchler — 2025-08-12 16:43:52 UTC

Writing daily about the "National Day of"

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Read a short story highlighting key phrases and create sentences with because, but, so

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Act it out

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Watch a scene from something with the sound off. The students have to write dialogue or a plot for the scene.

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Facial gestures games.

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Debate a topic of choice. Choose a viewpoint to defend and develop a logical argument with facts to defend student's viewpoint.

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Text treasure hunt.

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Readers Theater

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3 Sentence Summary- After reading a short story or a nonfiction text, have students write 3 sentences about what happened or what they learned; newcomers can draw pictures to show what they learned.

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ESL lab. Short (leveled) listening passages with questions at the end.

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Give detailed directions on what to draw. Students listen and draw what directions say.

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Use Frayer model to expand key content vocabulary.

khutchinson54 — 2025-08-12 16:46:29 UTC

Debating a topic after reading and researching. Listening to others point of view and articulating your own.