Activities for English Language Learners Across the Curriculum

Integrated English Language Development

This powerful resource defines and supports the implementation of Integrated English Language Development (I-ELD) and provides research-based instructional strategies to immerse students in content while promoting oral and written language development.

Strategies for English Learners in Your Classroom

Help English learners thrive in your classroom! This 6-page guide offers research-based instructional strategies to promote oral and written language development. Includes ready-to-implement strategies that will empower ELL students.

Idioms and Other English Expressions Grades 1-3 ebook

Introduce idioms and effectively incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. The idioms and expressions included in this resource are provided within stories to provide contest to help all students, including English language learners.

Idioms and Other English Expressions Grades 4-6 ebook

Introduce idioms and effectively incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. The idioms and expressions included in this resource are provided within stories to provide contest to help all students, including English language learners.

Using Biographies in Your Classroom ebook

This resource includes biographies with fun and creative strategies and to teach literacy skills and address the multiple intelligences in any classroom.

Strategies for Formative Assessment with English Language Learners ebook

Assess and address the language proficiency and linguistic needs of English language learners using the assessment techniques and resources in this handbook.

Words Steps: Making and Writing Content-Area Words ebook

Help build students' spelling and vocabulary skills with this fun, game-like approach! Each Word Steps activity is based on a crossword puzzle-type design and provides a focus on specific letters in words and meaning clues.

Building Academic Language through Content-Area Text: Strategies to Support ELLs

Set the stage for effective academic language instruction with strategies that are designed specifically for English language learners and support content-area literacy using informational text.

Environmental Print for Early Childhood Literacy ebook

Bring the world into the classroom and boost beginning readers' phonemic awareness and phonics skills using engaging environmental print. This book includes teacher background information, lesson plans, and developmentally appropriate student activities.

Introducing Reader's Workshop: Supporting Our Youngest Readers ebook

Create proficient readers with engaging suggestions and tools to implement Reader's Workshop. With lessons that are fun and flexible, students will explore reading strategies that build the foundational skills necessary for reading success!

An Educator's Guide to Family Involvement in Early Literacy ebook

Provide students with fun, effective activities to support classroom learning at home. This resource offers 30 ready-to-use family letters (in English and Spanish) and ideas and materials for take-home activities and family literacy workshops.

Connecting Content and Language for English Language Learners

Bridge the gap between content and language and put research into practice to instruct English language learners with strategies that meet their needs in language development and literacy.

Esperanza renace: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Help Spanish-speaking students boost their reading comprehension skills! This book provides engaging lesson plans and activities to guide teachers in the instruction of Esperanza renace, the Spanish language version of the novel Esperanza Rising.

La isla de los delfines azules: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Help Spanish-speaking students build their reading comprehension skills! This teacher resource offers exciting lesson plans and activities for La isla de los delfines azules, the Spanish language version of the novel Island of the Blue Dolphins.

El leon, la bruja y el ropero: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Challenge Spanish-speaking students to boost their reading comprehension skills! This teacher resource offers engaging lesson plans and activities for El leon, la bruja y el ropero, the Spanish version of the novel The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Me llamo Bud, no Buddy: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Challenge Spanish-speaking students to build their reading comprehension skills! This book provides teachers with meaningful lesson plans and activities for Me llamo Bud, no Buddy, the Spanish language version of the novel Bud, Not Buddy.

Integrating the Arts in Science: 30 Strategies to Create Dynamic Lessons, 2nd Edition

Use the arts to get students excited about science! This teacher-friendly resource provides practical strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in science instruction.

Integrating the Arts in Mathematics: 30 Strategies to Create Dynamic Lessons, 2nd Edition

Use the arts to get students interested in mathematics! This teacher-friendly resource offers research-based strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in math instruction.

Integrating the Arts in Language Arts: 30 Strategies to Create Dynamic Lessons, 2nd Edition

Motivate and inspire students during language arts instruction! This teacher-friendly resource provides practical strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in language arts instruction.

Integrating the Arts in Social Studies: 30 Strategies to Create Dynamic Lessons, 2nd Edition

Use the arts to get students invested in social studies! This teacher-friendly resource offers research-based strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in social studies instruction.

Integrating the Arts Across the Curriculum, 2nd Edition

Bring the arts back in the classroom! This resource offers built-in teacher support alongside practical strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts across the curriculum.

Weekly Word Roots: 52 Quick Activities for Building Vocabulary

Social-Emotional Learning Starts With Us: Empowering Teachers to Support Students

Teaching Civics Today: The iCivics Approach to Classroom Innovation and Student Engagement

Learn how to teach civics in today's classrooms! This professional book explores key civics topics and offers strategies for incorporating civics into social studies instruction. Includes best practices, implementation tools, and more teacher support.

Purposeful Play for Early Childhood Phonological Awareness, 2nd Edition

Build phonological awareness in a fun and meaningful way! This book provides pre-K through first grade students with over 80 research-based early childhood activities that focus on detecting, manipulating, and engaging with the sounds of language.

180 Days: Hands-On STEAM: Grade 6

180 Days of Printing: Beginning

Build students' printing skills with fun, daily practice activities! This book offers quick and effective writing activities for Grades PK-K. Includes 180 practice pages, basic forms and techniques, and other tools to develop handwriting skills.

180 Days of Printing: Advanced

Develop students' printing skills with fun, daily practice activities! This book provides quick and effective writing activities for Grades 1-2. Includes 180 easy-to-use practice pages that extend learning past beginning handwriting skills.

180 Days of Cursive: Beginning

Build students' cursive skills with fun, daily practice activities! This book provides quick and effective writing activities for Grades 2-3. Includes 180 practice pages, basic forms and techniques, and other tools to develop handwriting skills.

180 Days of Cursive: Advanced

Develop students' cursive skills with fun, daily practice activities! This book offers quick and effective writing activities for Grades 4-6. Includes 180 easy-to-use practice pages that extend learning past beginning handwriting skills.

Being Your Child's Most Important Teacher: A Guide for Families with Young Children

Prepare young learners for school with engaging learning experiences! This book provides families with ideas and activities that support children's mental, emotional, and social growth as they get ready to enter school.

What the Science of Reading Says about Word Recognition

Gain a deeper understanding of how students learn to read! This professional development resource examines current research on the science of reading and provides useful instructional strategies that build students' word recognition skills.

What the Science of Reading Says about Reading Comprehension and Content Knowledge

Gain a deeper understanding of how students learn to read! This professional development resource explores current research and offers instructional strategies that improve students' reading comprehension and content knowledge skills.

180 Days: Hands-On STEAM: Grade K

180 Days: Hands-On STEAM: Grade 1

180 Days: Hands-On STEAM: Grade 2

180 Days: Hands-On STEAM: Grade 3

180 Days: Hands-On STEAM: Grade 4

180 Days: Hands-On STEAM: Grade 5