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Benchmark Universe
Benchmark Universe
Resources from and for Benchmark Advance, Benchmark Adelante, and English Language Development, including ELD Specialist created resources.
Resources from and for Benchmark Advance, Benchmark Adelante, and English Language Development, including ELD Specialist created resources.
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Oral Language
Oral Language
ELD Scavenger Hunt - Students participate in a scavenger hunt to help develop oral language skills. Speaking frames included.
Conversation Starters Wheel - Students spin a wheel to get different topics as a conversation starter.
Dice Talk - Students work in pairs using virtual dice to practice oral language with questions and sentence frames.
This Or That - Students work in small groups to compaare and contrast, then write sentences using sentence frames.
This Or That Number Two - New options for additional compare and contrast discussions.
Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Touch and Read Short Vowels Phonemic Awareness Cards
Touch and Read Long Vowel Phonemic Awareness Cards
Touch and Read Long Vowel "a" and "e" Pairs Phonemic Awareness Cards
Touch and Read Long Vowel "o" Pairs Phonemic Awareness Cards
Touch and Read Beginning Blends Phonemic Awareness Cards
Phonics
Phonics
Interactive Making CVC Words - Interactive activity with virtual tiles and pictures.
Short and Long Vowel Sounds - Interactive with sound clips.
Short and Long Vowel True/False Quiz
1: Foundational Skills -s, -es
2. Foundational Skills -s, -ies
3. Foundational Skills f/v plus -es
7. Foundational Skills -er, -est
8. Foundational Skills -Latin Suffixes - -al -ial, -able -ible, -tion
Jeopardy: review of Foundational Skills lessons 1-3
Reading
Reading
Unite for Literacy - These books are short, colorful, and easy to understand with picture/text format and narration in many different home languages.
Sight Word Snakes and Ladders Game (4 players)- Interactive game for sight word recognition. Can be modified.
Free Online Books - Preview set of online books, good for TK-3 grade. Spanish versions too.
Main Idea and Details Graphic Organizer - Can be used in a group or individually
Beginning Reads - Books to connect student’s oral language knowledge with written language. They are also available as iBooks on iTunes!
Read and Annotate - Use this Google Slide template for any reading passage. Annotation tools are provided in the template. Sample slides included.
Writing
Writing
Writing
Writing
Single Paragraph Summary Frame/Template
Spot the Difference - This activity has students working in teams to find differences in pictures, then writing compare/contrast sentences.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Frayer Model for ELD - Frayer model in Englsh with translations for Armenian, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic. Student-friendly video instructions included.
Word Work GIF template - Creative vocabulary cards that the students can make themsleves.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Daytime Emmy®-nominated and award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online®, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Kristen Bell, Rita Moreno, Viola Davis, Jaime Camil, Kevin Costner, Lily Tomlin, Sarah Silverman, Betty White, Wanda Sykes and dozens more.
Reading aloud to children has been shown to improve reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking and concentration, and general academic aptitude, as well as inspire a lifelong love of reading. Teachers use Storyline Online in their classrooms, and doctors and nurses play Storyline Online in children’s hospitals.
Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.
Click on the link above to see the entire Jamboard sequence. Examples of pages can be seen below.
Modeling Reading teacher page
Word Work stuent page
Modeling Word Work teacher page
Word Work using Stickies
Picture Sorts student page
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