Classroom Teacher’s ESL Survival Kit # 2

ESL Survival Kit # 2 contains 170 reproducible, self-checking content area activities

• For use in mainstream or ESL classrooms
• With high beginner and low-intermediate ESL students, grades 3 through 12
• Well-illustrated, comprehensible content area activities with simple instructions allow students to work independently
• ESL Math activities prepare English language learners with the basic language needed for math in grades 3 to 8

ESL Science activities provide simple plant, animal and weather concepts as well as vocabulary-building activities.

Features

Reading activities include Aesop's stories with cloze exercises, language-extension activities, word searches and crossword puzzles.

Practice with vocabulary for:

• Numbers
• Decimals and fractions
• Word problems
• U.S. coins
• Time
• Shapes
• Geometrical terms
• Measuring terms for temperature, distance, weight, and liquids

Social studies materials help newcomers to:

• Locate the U.S. on a map of North America
• Learn names and locations of the 50 states
• Learn major geographical features of the U.S.
• Learn basic facts about:
  • The population
  • The capital
  • The president
  • Elections
  • Congress
• Symbols of the United States
• Important facts of early U.S. history
• Facts about our form of government
• Provides a basic awareness of democratic concepts