Here at Bilingual Learner, you'll find various lessons, counseling session guides, curriculum guides, activities, games, songs, assessments, and data tracking tools that are especially suited for both English speaking and non English speaking learners. We also have a blog addressing issues facing the world these days, as well as helpful tips and links to enhance your teaching and counseling- please comment, we'd love to hear your ideas, too!
Here at Bilingual Learner, you'll find various lessons, counseling session guides, curriculum guides, activities, games, songs, assessments, and data tracking tools that are especially suited for both English speaking and non English speaking learners. We also have a blog addressing issues facing the world these days, as well as helpful tips and links to enhance your teaching and counseling- please comment, we'd love to hear your ideas, too!
This guide gives you a clear plan on how to help your student/client through the grief process with 5 sessions of soothing, hopeful activities. This counseling guide is written for individual counseling but can be easily modified to use with groups, too. Appropriate for ages 8-18. 19 pages.
If you order this guide, you will receive:
Guide with 5 Weekly One Hour Sessions * Recommendations for Best Practice Grief Counseling * Parent Permission Letter * Inventories/Evaluations for Student Progress * Activities to Accompany a Grief-themed Picture Book (book recommended but not included ) * And More!
A comprehensive, chronological set of 60 lessons with everything you need to instruct your beginner level students in the best practice methods of ESL/EFL instruction. This guide focuses on speaking and listening skills and combines Volumes One, Two, and Three of our ESL for Beginners guides into one streamlined book! Just review this curriculum guide before your lesson each day, prep the materials it provides, and TEACH! Appropriate for ages 8-adult. 139 pages.
If you buy this guide, you will receive:
ESL Recommendations Guide * 60 ESL Lesson Plans * Parent Notification Letter * ESL Diagnostic Test with Scoring Key/Guide * Vocabulary Activities & Grammar Structures * Games, Field Trips, Songs * Literature Activities * And More!
ESL for Beginners Volume Two is perfect for your "not-so-beginning" beginner ESL student! This simple, easy-to-follow, chronological set of lessons has everything you need to instruct your students on topics such as irregular verbs, the present continuous verb tense, plurals, transportation vocabulary, and more! It focuses on speaking/listening skills. Appropriate for ages 8-adult. 70 pages.
If you buy this guide, you will receive:
ESL Recommendations Guide * 20 ESL Lesson Plans * Parent Notification Letter * ESL Diagnostic Test with Scoring Key/Guide * Vocabulary Activities & Grammar Structures * Games, Field Trips, Songs * Literature Activities * And More!
This simple, easy-to-follow, chronological set of twenty lesson plans will guide you to instruct your intermediate ESL/EFL students in speaking and listening skills. This guide builds on students' prior knowledge of beginning English concepts, while giving them a strong start into the intermediate English level with topics such as past and future continuous verbs, geography and space vocabulary, modal verbs, contractions, telling time, and more. Appropriate for ages 8-adult. 85 pages.
If you order this book, you will receive:
ESL/EFL Recommendations Guide * 20 Lesson Plans * Parent Notification Letter * Diagnostic Test with Scoring Key/Guide * Vocabulary Activities & Grammar Structures * Games, Comic Strips, & Songs * Literature Activities
This bilingual Halloween passage will introduce your new bilingual/ESL students to the traditions and history of this popular American holiday. The passage is in both English and Spanish- giving students a chance to practice their English acquisition while grasping all the concepts with the Spanish translation. In addition, the fill-in-the-blank aspect of the bilingual Halloween reading gives students a chance to apply what they are learning rather than just reading/listening.
This guide is a chronological set of 20 ESL/EFL lesson plans to start you off in teaching your students beginning English. It focuses on speaking/listening skills and includes lots of engaging, stimulating activities on the beginning topics of present simple verb tenses, the to be verb, greetings, school and home vocabulary, pronouns, and more! Appropriate for ages 8-adult. 53 pages.
If you order this guide, you will receive:
Recommendations Guide for ESL/EFL Best Practices * 20 Beginning ESL/EFL Lesson Plans * Parent Notification Letter * Diagnostic Test with Scoring Key/Guide * Vocabulary Activities & Grammar Structures * Dialogues * Games * Songs
This comprehensive group guide will help students adapt to American life with weekly activities focusing on the cultural values, laws/rules, holidays, and traditions of America and American schools. **While the session activities are appropriate for any immigrant group, THE HANDOUTS ARE IN SPANISH. Appropriate for ages 8 to adult. 44 pages.
If you buy this guide, you will receive:
Sessions Guide with 8 Sessions * Recommendations for Helping Students Transition to USA * Parent Permission Letter * Data Templates for Showing Student Progress * Holiday, Culture, and Lifestyle Activities * Group Rules, Evaluations * And More!
This is an individually administered test that places the student into 1 of 3 ESL levels based on their responses. This test also comes with a scoring key and guide.
(This test is included in the ESL for Beginners Lessons Guides and in the ESL in the Middle Lessons Guide, so if you have bought ESL for Beginners or ESL in the Middle , you should not buy this diagnostic test again.)
This guide will include 8 sessions of activities and info to help your students/clients manage their stress. Through relaxation exercises and knowledge building, this guide will teach group members to reduce their anxiety. This guide was especially created with bilingual/ESL populations in mind—it is the only one of its kind that has Spanish translations of the student materials. In addition, this stress management guide is also an excellent tool for counselors working with English-speaking populations as the guide itself is in English and English student materials accompany the Spanish student materials. With this publication, you will receive: a sessions guide with 8 weekly one hour sessions (ENGLISH), a recommendations guide for running a stress management counseling group (ENGLISH), a parent permission letter (ENGLISH/SPANISH), data templates for analyzing student progress (ENGLISH), templates for session notes (ENGLISH), group rules (ENGLISH/SPANISH), weekly group evaluations (ENGLISH/SPANISH), stress and anxiety reduction strategies (ENGLISH/SPANISH), informational passages (ENGLISH/SPANISH), additional activities to lengthen your sessions (ENGLISH/SPANISH), and more! This guide is appropriate for students aged 8-18. The guide is 77 pages long.
This eight session counseling guide emphasizes goal work and processed role plays as students use various solution focused strategies to manage their anger. Students will work through real life conflict situations and share successes of their own self-chosen anger management goals! This guide was especially created with bilingual/ESL populations in mind—it is the only one of its kind that has Spanish translations of the student materials. In addition, this anger management guide is also an excellent tool for counselors working with English-speaking populations as the guide itself is in English and English student materials accompany the Spanish student materials. With this publication, you will receive: a sessions guide with 8 weekly one hour sessions (ENGLISH), a recommendations guide for running an anger management counseling group (ENGLISH), a parent permission letter (ENGLISH/SPANISH), data templates for analyzing student progress (ENGLISH), templates for session notes (ENGLISH), group rules (ENGLISH/SPANISH), weekly group evaluations (ENGLISH/SPANISH), games (ENGLISH/SPANISH), informational passages (ENGLISH/SPANISH), role plays (ENGLISH/SPANISH), and more! This guide is appropriate for students aged 8-18. The guide is 77 pages.
This bilingual guide will include 8 sessions of activities and info to empower girls ages 8-18 to be confident, productive members of society. Through team building activities such as role plays, art projects, discussions, and journaling, this guide will keep your girls sharing and caring about topics such as making friends, body image, fostering healthy relationships, avoiding rumors, and handling "mean girls." This version of the guide also comes with Spanish translations of student session materials for use with bilingual or non-English speaking populations. Appropriate for ages 8-18. 77 pages.
If you order this guide, you will receive:
Sessions Guide with 8 One Hour Sessions ENGLISH * Recommendations Guide for Girl Empowerment Group ENGLISH * Parent Permission Letter ENGLISH/SPANISH * Strategies for Handling Friendship, Bullying & Mean Girl Issues ENGLISH/SPANISH * Informational Readings ENGLISH/SPANISH * Templates for Data, Group Passes, Session Notes ENGLISH * Achievement/Progress Activities ENGLISH/SPANISH * And More!
This eight session counseling guide has an emphasis on students sharing successes of their own self-chosen goals and on processing role plays! This version of the anger management guide also comes with Spanish translations of all the session materials for use with bilingual or non-English speaking populations. Appropriate for ages 8-18. 77 pages.
If you order this guide, you will receive:
-Sessions Guide with 8 One Hour Sessions ENGLISH
-Recommendations Guide for Anger Management Group ENGLISH
-Parent Permission Letter ENGLISH/SPANISH
-Anger Management Strategies ENGLISH/SPANISH
-Informational Readings ENGLISH/SPANISH
-Templates for Data, Group Passes, Session Notes ENGLISH
-Achievement/Progress Activities ENGLISH/SPANISH
This guide will include 8 sessions of activities and info to help your students/clients manage their stress. Through relaxation exercises and knowledge building, this guide will teach group members to reduce their anxiety. This guide was especially created with bilingual/ESL populations in mind—it is the only one of its kind that has Spanish translations of the student materials. In addition, this stress management guide is also an excellent tool for counselors working with English-speaking populations as the guide itself is in English and English student materials accompany the Spanish student materials. With this publication, you will receive: a sessions guide with 8 weekly one hour sessions (ENGLISH), a recommendations guide for running a stress management counseling group (ENGLISH), a parent permission letter (ENGLISH/SPANISH), data templates for analyzing student progress (ENGLISH), templates for session notes (ENGLISH), group rules (ENGLISH/SPANISH), weekly group evaluations (ENGLISH/SPANISH), stress and anxiety reduction strategies (ENGLISH/SPANISH), informational passages (ENGLISH/SPANISH), additional activities to lengthen your sessions (ENGLISH/SPANISH), and more! This guide is appropriate for students aged 8-18. The guide is 77 pages long.
This guide gives you a clear plan on how to help your student or client through the grief process. With 5 sessions of gentle, soothing activities, they will learn strategies for understanding the life-changing event they are experiencing and for moving forward with hope. Spanish translations of all the session materials are included for use with bilingual or non-English speaking populations. This grief counseling guide is written for individual counseling but can be easily modified to use with groups, too. Each session is presented in a clear, chronological manner that directs the counselor each step of the way with simple activities and questions. With this guide, you will receive: a sessions guide with 5 weekly 1 hour sessions, a recommendations guide, a parent permission letter, inventories, an evaluation tool, questions/activities to accompany a grief-themed picture book, templates for session notes and more!
This guide takes you step-by-step through the individual counseling process to help students effect positive, goal-based change in just 5 sessions! *You can also order Spanish translations of all the session materials for use with bilingual or non-English speaking populations. Appropriate for ages 8-18. 19 pages.
If you order this PDF, you will receive:
Sessions Guide with 5 Weekly One Hour Sessions * Recommendations Guide for Facilitating Best Practice Individual Counseling * Parent Permission Letter * Various Rating Scales and Inventories to Elicit Student Info/Progress * Key questions for Each Step of Individual Counseling Process * Templates for Session Notes * And More!