ESL teaching resources for the United Kingdom
Free Reading Passage: Heredity PDF
, Not Grade Specific,
Inherited versus learned traits are explained through rabbit fur colour and other animal examples in a science reading passage, followed by nine comprehension questions, an inherited-or-learned sorting table, a spelling-correction activity, and a full answer key.
Author Cored Education
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Tags Science, Elementary, Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Answers, Physics, Physical Science, Ccss, Common Core
Free Reading Passage: Plant Structure, Function, and Survival PDF
, Not Grade Specific,
A Lesson 19 reading passage explains how plant roots, leaves, and stems each serve a survival function, using a bicycle-parts analogy students then apply to the plant.
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Tags Science, Elementary, Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Answers, Physics, Physical Science, Ccss, Common Core
Give-One-Get-One: Instructional Strategy Card & Template
, Not Grade Specific,
Give-One-Get-One idea collecting is structured by a fill-in template where students write their own idea, then gather four peers' ideas in labeled boxes.
Author Sheltered Language Resources
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Tags Strategy Cards, ESL Cards, ESL Printables, Strategy Template, Interactive Activity, Get Strategy, One Template, Give One, Instructional Template, Give It One, Give One Get One Protocol
Graduation Crossword: 1 Page Sample (PDF)
, Not Grade Specific,
A free one-page Graduation Day crossword (8 clues) comes with an answer key that also lists solutions for five additional themed sets from the full six-crossword bundle, though only this one puzzle grid is included in the sample.
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Tags Vocabulary, Spelling, Crosswords, Graduation, Graduation Crosswords, Graduation Day, School Memories, Graduation Party, Ela Crosswords, Crossword
HOTEL: Word Games with Puzzles Crossword Wordsearch
, Not Grade Specific,
Seventeen hotel vocabulary words — room, reception, porter, check in/out, room attendant — are practiced through an anagram puzzle, a labeled crossword, a matching page, a spiral word arrangement, and a word-search grid.
Author WORDS ASIDE
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Tags Learning Difficulties, Dyslexia, Literacy Center, Flash Cards, Anagram, Word Search, Wordwall, Community, Travel, Words Aside
Let's Talk About Health – Class Board Game
, Not Grade Specific,
Twenty-six spoken health questions — from "What helps against a sore throat?" to "Do you know any diseases that are very contagious?" — fill the spaces of a Start-to-Finish board students answer as they move along it.
Author Better Teaching Resources
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Tags Board Game, Dice Game, Partner Activities, Health, Nutrition, Writing Prompts, ESL Activities, Small Group, Speaking Skills, Literacy
Let's Talk About Music – ESL Board Game
, Not Grade Specific,
Music talk fuels an ESL conversation board game whose path from Start to Finish is paved with around thirty discussion squares - favourite bands, instruments, concerts, genres, and challenges like humming a song for others to guess.
Author Better Teaching Resources
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Tags Board Game, Speaking Games, Speaking Skills, Writing Prompts, ESL Activity, Partner Activity, Literacy Center, Dice Game, Small Group
Let's Talk About Sports – ESL Speaking Board Game
, Not Grade Specific,
Sport-themed discussion questions fill a printable board game that students move around by rolling a die, answering a new question at each stop.
Author Better Teaching Resources
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Tags Sports, Literacy Station, Whole Group, ESL Activity, Speaking Game
Let's Talk About Spring Board Game
, Not Grade Specific,
About two dozen spring-themed conversation prompts line a winding path from START to FINISH, giving ESL and ELA students a speaking game about weather, food, and seasonal traditions.
Author Better Teaching Resources
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Tags Board Game, Dice Small, Partner Work, Small Group, Literacy Center, Assessing Mastery, Writing Prompts, Spring, April, May
Let's Talk About the Weather – ESL Board Game
, Not Grade Specific,
Over twenty weather-themed conversation questions line a path from Start to Finish, turning small talk about rain, snow, and storms into a speaking-practice board game for English learners.
Author Better Teaching Resources
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Tags Weather, Board Game, Literacy Center, Game Board, Dice Game, Writing Skills, Writing Prompts, Environment, ESL Activity, Partner Work, Weather Games For Middle School
Meet My Pen Pal Role Play Activity
, Not Grade Specific,
A six-slide 'Meet My Pen Pal' project has students imagine planning a trip to visit a pen pal in China, then present a five-slide travel story and defend it against a public-speaking rubric.
Author Golden Promise
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Tags Pen Pals, Role Play, ELA, World Languages, ESL
Mini TED Talk Project
, Not Grade Specific,
Students script, memorize and deliver a five-minute talk in their target language, modeled on the TED Talk format and scored with a five-criterion rubric.
Author Golden Promise
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Tags Mini Project, Speaking, TED Talk, World Languages, ESL
My Summer Plans Worksheet - End of Year Writing
, Not Grade Specific,
Two versions of a 'My Summer Plans' sentence-completion worksheet, one with a drawing space and one with more stems and a colouring activity, ask students to write about their summer plans.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags End Of Year, End Of Year Activities, Summer, Summer Activities, Literacy, Last Week Of School, Last Day Of School, Summer Writing Prompts, Plan
OREO Opinion Writing – 10 Graphic Organizers
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Opinion writing is scaffolded through five organizer types, each repeated in a second visual version. The OREO page separates opinion, reason, evidence or example, and restated opinion. Additional sheets compare pros with cons, sort facts from opinions, map an introduction with two supported reasons, and frame a concluding paragraph. Together, the sequence moves from idea evaluation to organized persuasive composition.
Author Cutie worksheets986
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Tags Opinion Writing, Persuasive Writing, OREO Writing Strategy, Writing Graphic Organizer, Paragraph Writing, Fact And Opinion, Pros And Cons, Writing Frames, Literacy Centers, Writing Activities
Prefixes and Suffixes Supplementary Materials Grade 5-6 (PDF)
, Not Grade Specific,
Four timed lesson plans on prefixes and suffixes come with printable affix cards, a scavenger hunt, a suffix match-up and three creative writing prompts. Four timed lesson plans on prefixes and suffixes include printable affix cards, a scavenger hunt, a suffix match-up and three creative writing prompts.
Author Cored Education
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Tags Elementary, Answers, Ccss, Common Core, Grammar, Tests, Test Prep, Assessment, Grade 5, Grade 6
Reading Comprehension Fiction Set 7: Ian's Friday Nights (PPT)
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In "Ian's Friday Nights," a boy learns to support his brother's football games, then works through comprehension questions, vocabulary matching, and a story-elements writing organizer.
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Tags Elementary, Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Answers, Ccss, Common Core, Spelling, Writing, Passages
Reading Comprehension Nonfiction Set 3 Sample: All About Horses (PDF)
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A first-person nonfiction passage about caring for and riding horses is followed by mixed comprehension questions, a spelling puzzle, a research-writing extension, a drawing game, and a complete answer key.
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Tags Elementary, Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Answers, Ccss, Common Core, Spelling, Writing, Passages
Reading Comprehension Passages Fiction Set 2 Sample: Graduation (Word)
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Matt begrudgingly helps set up his brother Paul's graduation party, then learns Paul spent the morning working to pay for school, in a two-page fiction passage.
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Tags Elementary, Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Answers, Ccss, Common Core, Spelling, Writing, Passages
Science Reading Comprehension Passage 25: Nervous System PDF
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An eight-page passage explains the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems before ten multiple-choice questions, a vocabulary match, and an antonym exercise.
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Tags Science, Elementary, Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Answers, Physics, Physical Science, Ccss, Common Core
Science Reading Passage 19 Plant Structure, Function, and Survival PPT
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An informational passage explains how plant roots, leaves, and stems keep a plant alive, then applies a bicycle-parts reasoning analogy to a function-matching chart, comprehension questions, and a vocabulary word-building exercise, all fully answer-keyed.
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Tags Science, Elementary, Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Answers, Physics, Physical Science, Ccss, Common Core
English-Arabic Sports Flashcards – 68 Vocabulary
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Sixty-eight sports words, from archery to yoga, are printed as bilingual English-Arabic flashcards, three to a row across five pages.
Author Homeschoolingprints
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Tags Sports List, English Vocabulary, Arabic Vocabulary, English To Arabic, Flashcards, Word Walls, Sight Word
Summer Crossword: 1 Page Sample (PDF)
, Not Grade Specific,
A free Summer Weather crossword pairs eight vocabulary clues with a thunderstorm fact and an answer key.
Author Cored Education
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Tags Vocabulary, Spelling, Crosswords, Summer, Summer Crosswords, Summer Weather, Summer Clothes, Summer Nature, Ela Crosswords, Crossword
Summer Solstice Reading Activities
, Not Grade Specific,
Summer solstice traditions — Finland's midsummer bonfires, dragon-boat races, protective bracelets in East Asia — anchor an intermediate ESL reading packet with prediction, gap-fill, first-conditional grammar, and discussion tasks.
Author TEAM TEFL
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Tags Reading Worksheets, Summer, Solstice, ESL, Language Arts
The Letter " E" Dot Marker Activity
, Not Grade Specific,
A single letter-E page pairs "E is for Eggplant" with a dot-marker outline for practicing the letter shape and fine-motor dabbing.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags Dot Painting, Dot Marketer, Coloring, Coloring Pages, Letters, Alphabet, Coloring Letters, Back To School, Back To School Activities