This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. This resource contains an article about ants, explains the life cycle of an ant with pictures, the colony life cycle, and has a coloring page of the life cycle (p.28), among others.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This lesson plan teaches students the importance of recycling through an article about the use of plastic bottled water. Students complete vocabulary, comprehension, and collaborative activities to learn about the value of recycling. Students will read, write, listen, and speak in this lesson.

This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. This student web lesson explores various forces that can cause the breaking and weathering of bedrock and larger rocks. Students go along with Joe Boulder, a reporter for the Bedrock Beat newspaper as he writes an article about where smaller rocks come from. The audio for this site works only with Internet Explorer.

This resource contains a 60-second listening audio file with accompanying transcript, quizzes, gap fill, and spelling and word jumble activities. Opportunities are provided for students to write, ask questions, and work with a partner. NOTE: The speaker has a British accent.

This resource contains a 60-second listening audio file with accompanying transcript, quizzes, gap fill, and spelling and word jumble activities. Opportunities are provided for students to write, ask questions, and work with a partner. NOTE: The speaker has a British accent.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This lesson teaches students about the possible overpopulation of the earth and its effects. Students complete vocabulary, reading comprehension, and collaborative activities in this lesson. Students will read, write, speak, and listen in this lesson.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This lesson plan asks students to read an article on earth hour. Students complete vocabulary, comprehension, and collaborative activities. Students learn about energy conservation and the reasons for it in this lesson. Students will read, write, listen, and speak in this lesson.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This resource provides background and additional resources about tides and what causes them.

This resource contains a 60-second listening audio file with accompanying transcript, quizzes, gap fill, and spelling and word jumble activities. Opportunities are provided for students to write, ask questions, and work with a partner. NOTE: The speaker has a British accent.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This lesson explores the prospect of green living. The lesson discusses alternate energy sources and the damage being done by present energy sources, Students will complete various vocabulary, comprehension, and collaborative activities based an article about green living. Students will read, write, listen, and speak in this lesson.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This lesson teaches students about non-renewable resources and the impact them can have on the world. Students complete vocabulary, reading comprehension, and collaborative activies in this lesson. Students will read, write, listen, and speak in this lesson.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This lesson plan teaches students about the implications of depleted oil resources on the world. Students complete vocabulary, reading comprehension, and collaborative activities in this lesson. Students will read, write, listen, and speak English in this lesson.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson students will learn about the geological conformation of Sahara desert. It contains all levels and all-skills activities, 5-speed graded listening, multi-speed graded scrolled reading, interactive dictation, and online quiz..

In this lesson on The Croods movie trailer and review article, students will learn about the Cretaceous prehistoric period by reading and listening to the text, watching the official trailer and working in listening, speaking, reading and writing activities. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. These activities teach students about vocabulary and the language associated with pollution. Students exploore compoud words assocaied with the topic with matching activities and fill in the gao activities. Students create questions and engage in dialogues with a partner about pollution. Students listen, speak, read, and write in these activities. Teacher notes can be found at http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/TBW_Environment-Pollution_TS.pdf .

This resource supports English language development and English language learners. Students learn about vocabulary and language associated with rubbish and pollution. Students complete a matching phrases activity, fill in the blank activity, create questions for dialogues, and engage in dialogues on the topic. Students listen, speak, read, and write in these activities. Teacher notes can be found at http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/TBW_Environment-Rubbish_TS.pdf .

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. Students help Detective LePlant to solve the mystery of soil: find out what soil is, why it is important, what types of living organisms can be found in and around soil, and in what kinds of soil plants grow. A window opens to define vocabulary words in English with an option in Spanish. The case has a case brief, facts, a quiz, and activities such as classifying the components of soil. This lesson is available in Spanish, also.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this interactive activity, students learn the vocabulary of different land forms in different regions of the United States. They click on the word and a picture and brief explanation appears.

The text is part of a set of articles by ReadWorks and this set provides both challenge and boost articles to help me differentiate for my students. Students who are interested in the topic read and comprehend at a higher level. So this allows me  to match challenge articles with my students' interests and level of English.