This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. In this activity, students pick up the correct amount of paper clips by creating an electromagnet with batteries and coils. Students add either batteries or coils to strengthen their electromagnets.

This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. This book provides different examples of the different forms of water, liquid, solid, and gas, with pictures.

ELL students will learn vocabulary for describing movement, useful for describe animal or objects in motion. Students listen and read the descriptive words and watch animals demonstrating the movements.

ELL students will discover how magnetic poles interact with each other and with other materials in this set of video. Close captioning and descriptions are available.

This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. This page has numerous pictures showing complete and incomplete metamorphosis. Some of the organisms included are frogs, butterflies, and mosquitoes. The articles are available in Spanish, also.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. The Nature's Recyclers Coloring Book teaches children about decomposers and recycling. Downloadable PDF.

This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. This website has lots to offer - people and places to visit and plenty of ways to explore how the city's residents recycle, reduce, and reuse waste. Students can click on any section of Recycle City that they want to tour, or click on the Dumptown Game. They can also create their own Recycle City scavenger hunt or go to the Activities area to see other ways they can explore.

This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. Students help Detective LePlant to solve the mystery of plant life and will identify the different parts of plants, what each part does, and how plants grow. The case has a case brief, facts, a quiz, and activities. This is available in Spanish, also.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. Students help Detective LePlant to solve the mystery of seeds, what is needed for germination and seed growth, differences in seeds and how they survive, describe nonflowering plants that produce seed-like structures, describe a seed's structure, and list seeds that are used for food. When students click vocabulary words, a window opens to define the word in English with a Spanish option. The case has a case brief, facts, a quiz, and activities. Available in Spanish, also.

In this lesson, students will understand who we are (as a country) by examining the different foods and customs that represent the different cultures and geographic areas of the country. Students will understand that their families (ancestors) participated in making the country what it is today. Students will examine the diversity within their own class and in other locations throughout the country.

In this lesson from Expeditionary Learning, students will write an informative/explanatory text on Waiting for the Biblioburro by Monica Brown. This is Lesson 5 of 17 from the Grade 3 Curriculum Map Unit 3, Module 1: http://engageny.org/resource/grade-3-ela-module-1-unit-3 .

The focus of the lesson is showing how information is broken into smaller pieces and transmitted through the internet through the use of vocabulary building skills, using prefixes and base words to build and break apart multisyllabic words.

The protocols and resources in this appendix to Grades 6-8 EL Education Curriculum are referenced in the lessons and are related to checking for understanding, formative assessment, and building academic vocabulary.

Protocol descriptions include:
Final Word
Gallery Walk
Interactice Word Wall
Rank, Talk, Write
Say Something

This resource includes a quiz which focuses on Reading Information standard 4. Students will read an excerpt and attempt to define vocabulary within context using available clues. Students are tasked with citing specific clues.

What does close reading look like? This video shows students in an eighth-grade classroom are engaged in the close reading process for an EL Education 8th Grade ELA Lesson. The students discuss the complex non-fiction text, Unbroken, to deepen their understanding of the book’s central character and of the World War II era.

Four Questions Protocol is a good strategy for students to use when reading the material.

Students will build background and show understanding about government elections at the local, state, and national levels in the United States.

Students will write, revise, and edit an informational piece to demonstrate mastery of the topic of elections incorporating key academic content vocabulary.

Students will create a PPT with a teacher's model to demonstrate understanding and mastery of key content area vocabulary words.

Students will complete activities during independent work time or literacy stations. Provides a QR code for students to listen to stories (2 non-fiction and 1 fiction) about elections. After they listen to the stories they choose one of the non-fiction texts to write facts about, find the main idea and key details, and define new words

This is a 10 week unit plan that takes students through the process of learning rhetorical analysis. It starts with the basics: the rhetorical triangle, vocabulary, basic analysis. Once the students have spent a significant amount of time learning and practicing the skills there are two essay assessments built in that align with the SAT rhetorical analysis and with the AP Language and Composition Exam.