Begin each day with a warm-up that has ELLs focusing their minds on a skill that will be taught that day. Focusing on verbs, each daily lesson reinforces study and self-management skills, helps learners become proficient in working with verb tenses, as well as become better readers, speakers, and listeners.

Concepts

communities, routines, action verbs, present tense verbs, the present continuous tense, days of the week, analog clocks, telling time, speaking skills, listening

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Break up the resource into the individual activities to include in multiple subjects
• Use some of the warm-up activities as homework

Classroom Considerations

• Contains a week's work of materials that can be extended to meet learner's needs
• Intended for ELLs but can be used in mainstream classes as well

Pros

• Comes with multiple activities and daily warm-ups 
• Offers ways to help struggling learners
• Provides a daily outline of what teachers should implement and in what order

Cons

• The referenced manual is not provided

Common Core

RF.3.3.a SL.3.1.a SL.4.1.a SL.5.1.a L.3.1.a L.4.1.a L.5.1.a