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Just this year I asked the principal to put ESL kids on the same team -we are in a middle school. I got lucky. 2 students in the 6th grade are on the same team and also are about at the same level of learning English (even though one is Korean and one is . When they come to see me we can work on the...

Ever play the game "Guess Who". Its a kind of board game where the players (only 2 ) have to guess who their opponent has. They have to ask eachother questions. Does he have blue eyes? Is he bald? Is it a woman? This works well as one activity. I've also tried things like I give the students instruc...

I'm getting a new students tomorrow who does not speak English. I am creating some index cards for him to carry around to his classes to help him. One index card says WHERE on top and then on the following lines are: nurse, gym, cafeteria, locker, etc.... I have another card that says HELP and thing...

I live in Illinois and I just finished getting my ESL endorsement by taking my 6 classes online. It was great. I took classes in Arizona and Louisianna and never left home. It was quite reasonable too.