Academic Formal and Informal Language This 23-page packet contains everything you need to teach the differences between formal academic language and informal language to your elementary students. The first thing students need to be able to do is to identify that there are two kinds of language, academic and informal. Next, students must be able to determine the oral language used in each situation. Finally, students should be able to produce the academic formal language required by writing. •academic formal and informal WORD WALL CARDS •LESSON PLANS •GAME BOARDS •PICTURE CARDS and more Simply copy, cut, and use. Use this great academic language package for 1st through 5th graders. Perfect for second language learners! Lori Wolfe

Kinder & 1st Grade Sentence Starters - a 64-page Sentence Starters packet packed with 42 great sentence starters that will get your student writing. Students love to write about their lives and these sentence starters help them begin. We provide everything your students need to practice writing with Kinder & 1st Grade Sentence Starters! Our sentence starters are open-ended requiring your students to use higher order thinking skills while practicing their writing. All writing prompts are in the present tense making it easier for students to express their thoughts. This sentence starters packet is perfect for writing in Kindergarten, 1st grade and for second language learners at the beginning and early intermediate language levels. We have included black lines for the following: ♥Kinder & 1st grade sentence starter word wall cards ♥Individual lined papers for each sentence starter ♥Student assessment rubric This unit includes the black line masters that you will need to develop effective lessons. Use sentence starters to start each day, in writer’s workshops, centers, journaling and more. We have included sentence starters such as: I see… I like to go to the… This is my… Look at me in the… Each sentence starter is printed on individual cards and lined paper with space to illustrate the writing. Simply copy, cut, and let your students pick the sentence starter that will get them engaged in writing. Lori Wolfe

Past Participle Verb Games Past Participle Past Tense Verb Game- English Grammar and Vocabulary Unit Plan is filled with teaching ideas, activities and games to practice using past tense participle verbs. Past Participle Verb Games will help your students practice their English grammar and build vocabulary through play. This English grammar lesson plan, activities and game unit is full of grammar activities, resources, reproducible black lines, teaching ideas, and lesson plan ideas. Students play these grammar games and naturally transfer skills they learn in class! Great for grammar based lessons or ESL classrooms. This Past Tense Verb package includes 6 Games: Fishing For the Past! Concentration! Slap It! Weighty Words! Do You Know IT? Make It a Past Participle! Reproducible past tense verb black lines included in this package: -A variety of past tense verb games -Complete game boards and game cards -Easy to use teacher's guides -Easy game assembly Just copy, cut and play! Lori Wolfe

Irregular Past Tense Verb Game Irregular Past Tense Verb Game- English Grammar and Vocabulary Unit Plan is filled with teaching ideas, activities and games to practice using irregular past tense verbs. Irregular Past Tense Verbs will help your students practice their English grammar and build vocabulary through play. This 33-page irregular past tense verb and English grammar lesson plan, activities and game unit is full of grammar activities, resources, reproducible black lines, teaching ideas, and lesson plan ideas. Students play these irregular past tense verb and grammar games and naturally transfer skills they learn in class! This past tense verb package includes 6 Irregular Past Tense Games: Fishing For the Past! Concentration! Slap It! Weighty Words! They Don't End in 'ed'! Make it in the Past! This past tense verb grammar/vocabulary game package includes 6 irregular past tense games and the printable black line masters to play them: Game Board Game Cards Word Cards Just copy, cut and play! Lori Wolfe

The end of the year and summertime are right around the corner! Get ready with these colorful End of the Year and Summer Word Wall Cards. This 47-page vocabulary word wall package includes 50 End of the Year and Summer Word Wall cards, alphabet headers and activities. These word cards are great for a theme wall, flashcards to send home or use as a matching game. Spice up your end of the year with this great packet. Words included in this packet are: summer, graduation, graduate, fun, certificate, field trip, memories, reading, favorite diploma, pool, finished, friend, beach, amusement, swim, swimming, sunny, park, sun, teacher, June, July, May, August, camp, hot, water, flower, lazy, vacation, warm, tent, swimsuit, towel, smore, camping, ice, bike, bathing suit, heat, holiday, July 4th, fireworks, sightseeing, diving, popsicle, coast, carefree, school, school’s out. Vocabulary games and activities included in this set: Word Wall Bean Bag Toss Slap It! Chant the Wall This is a great vocabulary graphic organizer to use with your students. Just copy onto colored paper and cut and you have your word wall ready to go! A vocabulary word wall is an organized group of large print words posted on a bulletin board or wall in your classroom. Word walls draw attention to the words you are teaching and are used in whole class or small group activities. Word walls provide a systematic visual vocabulary organizer that aides children in seeing and remembering connections between words and the characteristics that help them form categories and schemas to remember how to use them. Lori Wolfe

Are you looking for past tense verb games so that your students can practice and review regular verb tenses? These Past Tense Verb Games will add FUN when your students practice and review the 3 Sounds of -ed regular past tense verbs. 3 Sounds of -ed Regular Verb Games includes 8 print-to-play verb tense activities to practice with105 regular verbs with your students! Use Past Tense Verb Games with Regular Verb Tense Activities for the 3 Sounds of -ed all year long - year after year! -There are 105 verbs so you can differentiate easily between student levels -Run small groups using the same or different verbs -Quick easy effective verb tense games and activities: GAME BOARD GAME CARDS for each sound of 'ed' WORD CARDS NUMBER CARDS This resource works well: ESL & ELD classrooms Classrooms with ELLs Whole class Small groups Speech Therapy Grammar Instruction Intervention Groups After School programs Summer School This resource came from my product The 3 Sounds of "ed" Past Tense Verb Game, but you will engage students with this sample freebie.

Prepositions Kindergarten-1st grade Words that describe location- (ex: outside, inside, in, under, next to, far, etc.) This 62-page kindergarten package set of 19 essential prepositions that describe location will be a great addition to your ELA center activities. (They can also be used to teach position in Kindergarten math.) Each preposition is illustrated, and has an illustrated word wall card and kindergarten activities. The 19 prepositions are for locations. Students make books, manipulatives and activities. This preposition kindergarten kit will work well for centers or stations, scoot, or individual work. The illustrations should assist ESL students, as well as emergent readers and those with special needs. Prepositions included in this unit:
 ★outside, inside, in, under, next to, far, near, to, over, between, on, at, below, above, by, up, down, off, with.

St Patrick’s Day is right around the corner! I love using this holiday to teach about idioms! What is an idiom? Idioms are words that don’t mean what they say! They are usually a group of words, well known and used by native speakers of a language, that can’t be understood by the individual meaning of the words. Why teach idioms? Students develop a clear understanding of idioms with direct instruction, read-alouds, teacher modeling and student-centered activities. Here is one way to teach idioms: • When presenting idioms to students, introduce a group of 4 to 5 idioms together. It is best to group the idioms into a category, for example; before St. Patrick’s Day teach idioms that use green in them! • Always use stories or relate personal conversations to introduce each idiom in context. Great for Kinder through 5th grade!