Summer is not just a time for relaxation; it’s also a fantastic opportunity to make learning engaging and meaningful for English learners. If you work with multilingual learners in summer school, tutoring, or an enrichment program, here are a few summer-themed resources and other engaging ideas to help ELLs develop their language skills while having fun!
5 Summer Teaching Resources for English Learners
1. Summer Story Writing: Using familiar summer contexts can make learning more relatable and enjoyable for English learners. Narrative writing helps ELLs improve their storytelling skills, creativity, and vocabulary. This resource includes anchor charts supports to provide fun summer visuals and suggested vocabulary in a word bank. Then use the vocabulary and speaking practice as a springboard for writing stories.
2. Summer Sentence Writing Your students need more work at the sentence level? Check out this summer sentence writing resource. The focus is on present and present progressive verb use and includes visuals as well as different kinds of writing paper.
3. Summer Sentence Building
Unscrambling sentences can help ELLs with syntax, grammar, and sentence structure. Building up from word level to sentence level resources helps build confidence. Fun activities like practicing vocabulary with write the room, and talking to a partner about a fun summer scene engage young learners.
More Summer Teaching Resources for English Learners
4. Summer Speaking Game
Oral language development for ELLs is so important. Speaking activities can improve pronunciation, fluency, and confidence. This resource includes a tic tac toe gameboard for summer as well as 9 other boards! Plus writing paper to extend the lesson using the sentence frames for support.
5. Fun Games and Activities
Great games for any time of year! Check them out!
BONUS: Multilingual Bulletin Board
Check out this awesome summer bulletin board by Language Adventurist! This summer bulletin board decor in 40 different languages is a great way to teach your students about languages and to welcome summer in different cultures.
Remember: engaging activities can encourage participation and enthusiasm for language learning, especially during the summer! Try out one or more of these summer teaching resources for English learners and share your experience! I’d love your feedback and suggestions on how you use summer-themed activities in your classrooms as well as the games above.
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