Original Short Stories for Mixed Ability EAL/ESL: A Pencil Drawing, The Mirror, Whisper in My Ear, The Seven Sisters, and Family Traditions

Enrich your classroom with this Original Short Story Bundle, featuring five unique, carefully crafted schemes of work perfect for mixed-ability EAL/ESL students. This collection includes a diverse range of stories that explore themes of family, growing up, mystery, and suspense, providing students with engaging narratives to enhance language skills, cultural understanding, and critical thinking. Suitable for secondary students from A1 to B1 on the CEFR, each scheme is designed to support all learners through a variety of differentiated resources and activities.

What’s Included in Each Story:

• A Pencil Drawing – An eerie ghost story featuring a podcast review project, with differentiated texts and comprehension questions, vocabulary focus, and a comic strip prediction task.

• The Mirror – Another suspenseful tale, complete with a prediction task, differentiated comprehension questions, a comic-making task, and an optional drama activity for engaging, expressive learning.

• Whisper in My Ear – A ghost story that includes vocabulary focus, prediction, and comprehension questions, culminating in a creative ghost story-writing project. Also includes a diary writing task, building empathy and reflective skills.

• Seven Sisters – A touching narrative about family and growing up, with a vocabulary focus, differentiated comprehension, and a creative choice board, culminating in a diary entry task and practice with dialogue writing.

• Family Traditions – A story exploring themes of family customs, fear, and loss, featuring discussion tasks, prediction activities, an introduction to imagery, and a character interview task, ending with a comic-making project.

Each story scheme offers:

Differentiated text versions to cater to varying levels, with simplified and more advanced versions for A1-B1 students.
Vocabulary and comprehension activities designed to build understanding, expand language use, and support reading skills.
Creative culminating tasks like podcasts, diary entries, and comic creation to foster imagination and application of language skills.
Illustrations and images to scaffold comprehension and create an immersive reading experience.

This bundle provides excellent value, offering five complete, adaptable resources that introduce students to original, relatable stories while building essential language skills. With a mix of mystery, emotion, and real-life connections, this collection is perfect for EAL/ESL teachers looking to bring quality, engaging materials into their classrooms.