Staff meeting ELIP 09
Ideas to use in the classroom
Resource
Activity
Feelings series
Nice picture books but unfortunately the
topics are a bit juvenile.
This fantastic resource is invaluable when
it comes to writing exemplars. Levelled 13.
Ready to Read collection RA 5 – 9
Comprehension activities from a RA of 9 +
(independent with answers)
ELIP resource
Ready to Read
School Journal online collection of
comprehension activities
(Vanessa has and can email you if
interested!)
Story Library Collection – Listen to English
whilst following the text and looking at
the visual clues/pictures. (Computer or
CD player/headphones/CD/Book)
Vocabulary poster
Picture dictionary
www.starfall.com
Reading online Basic – 8 year level
Animated
Greek Myths
Chinese Fables
Folk Tales
Cartoons
http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLCli
part/default.html
Royalty-Free Clip Art Collection for
Write down NEW words in English and first
language
Higher level students –
who/what/where/why
Time lines
Summaries
Cut pictures from magazines and label
them to create large posters of
categories of common vocabulary
words. Categories might be food,
clothing, body parts, colours, animals,
playground scenes, family groups,
classroom, street scenes, house and
furniture, or transportation. Display the
posters in your classroom.
To make a picture dictionary, staple
sheets of construction paper together
and have students cut pictures out of
magazines. Use categories which
complement your curriculum (for
example, a Healthy Foods section to go
with your health unit on nutrition).
Encourage students to add to their
Dictionary whenever possible. This is an
excellent cooperative learning activity
that mainstream students can share in.
Reading out loud
Shared/guided
Retelling the story
What is the moral?
Think of a time when you have been in a
similar situation – write/explain
Write questions that the characters might
ask each other. Swap and answer other
students questions
Story starters
Vocabulary
Sentences using noun/verb
Past/present tense
Foreign/Second Language Instruction
A growing collection of clip art (simple
line-drawings) to be used by foreign
language instructors. Drawings are
designed to be culturally and
linguistically neutral as much as possible.
(see handout image bank for more
ideas)
www.spellingcity.com
Add your own vocabulary words and
play games, activities or listen to the
words.
Wizzies
“Teach it” and its subsidiary website
“teach it primary” are subscribed to by
MBIS. I am currently looking at the ESOL
component as a possibility.
Magnet/ Chopstick/Syntex
Teachit Timer
Scrabble Anagram
www.teachit.co.uk
http://www.teachitprimary.co.uk
User3@murraysbay
Sunrise
Fab Phonics (free sample activity but
otherwise you need to pay!)
Worksheets and lessons – topic search
(choose the format – smart
resource/powerpoint/word/flash
Loop game – high frequency words (word
doc)
I can booklet – (verbs/sentences)
Describe a setting – powerpoint
SMART NOTEBOOK resources
Primary resources IMAGE bank
www.tutpup.com
E - Books
www.redrocketreaders.com/ebooks.html
Like Mathletics but FREE
Has both maths and spelling games that
students play against other students.
You can set up a teacher account and a
class and follow the progress of your
students.
This site lets you download for FREE 4 EBooks per level emergent – fluent. There is
2 fiction and 2 non fiction per level.
NEED DNL reader downloaded!
http://a4esl.org/
NEED DNL reader downloaded!
Bilingual quiz – Many languages to
choose from
Vocabulary quiz
Crossword puzzle
VOA voice of America - nouns, verbs,
adjectives, adverbs, prepositions
http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/re
sources/SBsites.htm
Millions of SMARTBOARD templates
Go to Communication Arts for some
great online activities
Try
Building language for literacy
Don’t use said
Magnetic spelling
www.readwritethink.org
Click on student materials for many cool
interactive tools for literacy.
Try
comic creator
Construct a word
Flip a chip
Picture match (has sound) Great for
learning ENGLISH sounds
What’s in the bag? (has sound)
Word family sort
Word Wizard – (Has Sound)
www.education.smarttech.com
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resourc
es_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/community_lang/ea
l_survival/index.htm
Once again many smartboard
resources/templates.
Oral commands to listen to that relate to
school.
Students could write down the ones that
could apply to them.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.a
spx?cat=46
The best, free Interactive
Whiteboard Resources
Regularly updated to save you
time!
Select a Category
:Punctuation Grammar and Spelling
Poetry Writing Stories
Speaking and Listening
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/
writingfun/writingfun.Html
Great site for exemplars and templates
for different writing genres
http://www.tefl.net/esl-lessonplans/worksheet-generator/index.htm
Worksheet generator of vocabulary. You
add your own vocabulary – great for
specific topic based things you are doing
in class.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/
contents09writingpunctuationgrammar.h
tm
11 punctuation posters for your classroom
Where’s Wally
Photocopy a page from the book and
get the students to write in past or present
tense sentences explaining where the
characters are and what they are doing.
100s of teaching ideas, PDFs, Word docs
relating to Literacy.
Check out the punctuation, spelling,
grammar and word section.
6 FREE interactive book samples
Maria goes to school
Scaredy crow
How the zebra got there stripes
Lots a pasta
American sports legends
A prairie dogs life
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/
http://www.razkids.com/main/ViewPage/name/sample