If you’re an ESL teacher, juggling lesson planning, classroom management, and grading can be overwhelming. That’s where seasonal resources come in handy, allowing you to stay organized and keep students engaged without added stress. Let’s focus on how to boost fall writing in the ESL classroom today.
Boost Fall Writing with Three Teaching Resources
In my Teachers Pay Teachers store, The ESL Teacher Life, I’ve created three specific resources to boost fall writing designed for busy teachers: ESL Fall Writing Activities, ESL Fall Writing Sentences Activities, and ESL Fall Sentence Building Activities. Here’s how each resource can help you this fall.
1. Fall Story Writing Activities
When it comes to teaching English, one challenge is helping students develop writing skills that go beyond sentence writing. The ESL Fall Writing Activities set is perfect for developing your students’ creativity and critical thinking. Meanwhile it allows everyone to embrace the season!
Benefits for Busy Teachers:
- Easy-to-Use Prompts: The activities come with pre-made writing anchor chart supports for brainstorming, building vocabulary, and visuals that focus on fall themes.
- Engaging Topics: This keeps students excited while working on story writing and has supports to teach transition words.
2. Fall Sentence Writing
For younger students or beginners, students may need more work at the sentence level. ESL Fall Writing Sentences Activities boost fall writing by focusing on building these essential skills step by step, integrating fun fall themes that capture students’ interest.
Benefits for Busy Teachers:
- Verb vocabulary Fun practice writing sentences with visuals for verbs and anchor charts for present and progressive tense.
- Grammar in Context: Naturally introduce important grammar elements like subject-verb agreement, making grammar lessons less of a chore.
- Minimal Prep: With these low-prep activities, you simply print and go, saving you valuable time in your lesson planning process.
Fall Unscramble Sentences
Finally, for those students who need a bit more practice constructing sentences from scratch, the ESL Fall Sentence Building Activities offer the perfect combination of hands-on learning and thematic fun.
Benefits for Busy Teachers:
- Hands-on Learning: Students cut and arrange words or phrases to build sentences. This physical activity makes learning interactive and memorable.
- Customizable for All Levels: You can easily modify the activities to suit different skill levels by choosing where you start such as beginning with write the room words, and moving to 3 part sentence construction, or starting with 5 part sentence construction and sentence writing review.
- Builds Confidence: Students gain a real sense of accomplishment when they physically piece together sentences, which boosts their confidence in sentence structure and fluency.
Check out The ESL Teacher Life on Teachers Pay Teachers to grab these fall-themed ESL resources to help you boost fall writing this year. By focusing on sentence building, structured writing, and engaging themes, these resources will enrich your lessons while keeping your workload manageable. Happy teaching this fall! 
Wished you had resources to support listening skills and still have integrate fun and writing? In that case, check out this Fall Listening Bingo above.
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