Create messages for your students written in alien code and print them out instantly. Alien message decoding can be a fantastic activity to engage students with a topic, or to introduce a task. This tool will allow you to type in any message in any (roman alphabet) language, and print out the message in alien code, along with a key. I love to leave these messages for students to find and watch the children's excitement as they try and decode.

A 60 page pack of communicative activities for ESL/EAL/EFL teachers. Print off the relevant lesson and go. Loads of activities with communication built in, scaffolded activities, word recognition activities as well as reading and writing activities. Also links to videos. Topics covered: Introductions Countries and Nationalities Numbers Classroom instructions Parts of the body Colours Classroom objects Clothes Shapes and sizes Actions – Present Continuous Daily routines – present simple Emotions Jobs Animals Family Prepositions of place Food and drink

Adjectives packet for English learners An enormous bundle of resources to help primary school children learn adjectives and build their vocabulary for reading and writing. 40 Adjectives (plus synonyms) with 4 resources; Picture dictionary: 6 pictures to a page Words across from their antonym Synonyms listed for each adjective Adjective used in an example sentence Jigsaw activity: Match synonyms to their antonym Add a picture for both Add a sentence Add a riddle Flashcards - Version 1: All the pictures on one side, and the word on the other side. Flashcards - Version 2: Pictures on one side, the word and the synonyms on the other.

Communicative or individual activity including 3 different sheets of Alien code, the answer key, and a key to help students with the decoding. 3 sets of Alien code with a key. Leave the code or messages in a 'space ship' for students to find and let them find the other part elsewhere or simply explain that you 'found these strange messages at home'. Students either communicate to decode the messages or work individually, depending what you want them to do the activity for. Sheet 1 are motivational 'fortune cookie' style messages. Sheet 2 include a treasure hunt based on 5 clues. Sufficiently generic to work in any school. Sheet 3 is a letter from the aliens requesting help. Students decode the message and then the teacher produces a list of whatever the students need to do in order to help them (for example, complete their maths homework, or find the answer to a difficult question.). The children (grades 2-8) I've done this activity with have loved it!

Newly Updated - further updates coming soon. This 18 slide presentation breaks down the language surrounding racism with definitions, examples and talking points. Students will learn what the various terms mean, see examples and give their own examples, before seeing examples from the real world, with photographs in the last few slides. This is an excellent resource for opening up conversations about race and racism and get students to really think about the different types of racism and how they potentially are contributors to racism themselves through their choice of language.

A carefully prepared unit on Rosa Parks and the bus boycott, a great part of a wider civil rights or black history unit. The sequence takes students through the bus boycott story to the writing of a diary from the perspective of Rosa and/or James Blake. Lesson step outline included, story sequencing cards, Images, 3 different levels of text, 2 different scaffolding sheets on perspectives and 2 diary writing pages.

Six posters breaking down how to use 6 tenses in English - Present simple, Present continuous, Past simple, Past continuous, Future with ‘will’ and Future with ‘Going to’. Colourful displays to print out and stick up on the wall or into student notebooks (A3 or A4 for the wall, A4 or A5 for the notebooks). The structures allow students to check their own sentence structures and to get their sentences right while they are learning.

A focused approach to building vocabulary and literacy for Grade 2 students, one vocabulary list and one genre at a time. Get ready to explore the world of vocabulary with Vocabulary Crunch, perfect for Grade 2 students. Vocabulary Crunch provides engaging texts of curriculum and grade-aligned genres, along with vocabulary lists and reading comprehension questions to help students better understand the texts. With Vocabulary Crunch, students will build their vocabulary and improve their literacy skills. Start your journey with vocabulary crunch today. Texts|Genres Animals and Ecosystems | Information Space Adventure | Script Dinosaurs | Information The future is fun | Poetry Acrostic poem about the future| Poetry How to make a Caesar Cypher| instructions Mansa Musa | Biography How to play dodgeball| Instructions A magical Map| Fiction Why you should study ancient civilizations | Persuasive

A fantastic card game for Halloween. Just print out one set of cards for every set of 6-8 students. Suitable for US/UK Players work in a team of 2 and play in a group of 8. Cards are laid out in 2 piles - Action cards and Ghoul cards. On your team's turn, take one card from each pack and follow the instructions [eg...Sculpt a witch with a blindfold, Act a vampire with a puppet (one player is the puppet master, the other the puppet)] The other teams guess. The first team to guess your ghoul correctly gets a point and you get a point. The team with the most points when the game ends is the winner. 2 versions depending on the size of cards you want. Either print out version 1 and cut the cards out, or use the full page version and adjust your printer settings to make half page cards etc.

An excellent game to get children communicating and having fun, while using Christmas vocab to get into the spirit of the season. Lay out the action cards on one side and the character cards on the other. Teams take turns to choose two cards and follow the instructions. Do you need to sculpt santa with a blindfold? Use your partner as a puppet to act an Elf? Who knows? What everyone can be sure of, though, is that it will be bags of fun!

2 page worksheet for teaching classroom objects with the I have/don't have structure. This is a just one unit of the ESL resource pack from Tigerlearn - for a more comprehensive 60 page product, go for that.

A complete ESL/EAL inquiry based lesson can be built around this worksheet. Includes scaffolded writing activities. Read about one family, write sentences about your own family, then create a family tree based on the descriptions. Use the family tree to understand the sentences given about the family and work out the meaning of new words. This is just one unit from the Tigerlearn EAL resource pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/60-page-esl-eal-activity-pack-for-english-teachers-11364056

A simple introductory PPT for the silent E. Students practise the short vowel sounds of CVC words and then the long vowel sounds of silent E words, with a short explanation. They then practise reading the words with different vowel sounds and identify which words have which vowel sounds.

A short PPT introducing the Be verb in the present tense. Students practise using the be verb for different subjects and then shortening the sentences using an apostrophe.

A very simple presentation to introduce the past tense of the Be verb as ‘was’ and ‘were’. Students make sentences in affirmative and negative forms, identify sentences as past or present and change sentences from present to past.