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11th–12th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Belief And Doubt, Katie Loughrist, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Lesson 1 • Belief & justification: why do we believe what we do?

Lesson 2 • They did WHAT? Give it a try, and believe in yourself!

Lesson 3 • Stranger than fiction: a brief history of our weird world

Lesson 4 • Two truths and a lie: a guessing game of belief and doubt

Lesson 5 • Reflection: a focus on belief

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K–1st Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Space, Vickie Neilly, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

These packets are self-contained. Everything a child will need to be successful with the activities is provided in the packet. Students will only need a writing utensil. Additional tools like crayons or scissors can be used, but do not have to be.

Day 1 • Vocabulary trace, Label My Buddy, Space shapes, Let's move

Day 2 • Reading passage, Mix it fix it, Space dot-to-dot, Window or walk

Day 3 • Vocabulary matching, Let's compare, Astronaut writing, Move with your Buddy

Day 4 • Space graphing, Space addition, If I lived in space, Let's draw

Day 5 • My journal, …

K–1st Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Cycles, Vickie Neilly, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Vocabulary, Label My Buddy, Let's move, Life cycle patterns

Day 2 • Life cycles, Animal actions, Mix it fix it, Let's sort

Day 3 • Let's draw, Math word problems, Scavenger hunt

Day 4 • What's inside?, Let's match, Move with your Buddy, Would you rather?

Day 5 • Window or walk, My journal, Let's create, Nouns and verbs

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7th–8th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Disasters #3, Caryn G. Jones, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Pandemic! Grades 7-8

Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lesson 1 • Define and classify diseases, Reflections

Lesson 2 • Psssttt...DON'T pass it on, Reflections

Lesson 3 • GROSS...anatomy (It's not really gross!), Systems of the human body, How do you feel?, Reflections

Lesson 4 • Treatment vs cure vs vaccine, Symptoms can be beneficial, Diagnose it, doctor!, Beyond diagnosis, Use your knowledge: Diagnose and treat, Reflections

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K–1st Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Taking Care Of Self 2, Vickie Neilly, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Vocabulary, Label My Buddy, Let's move, Counting by 10s

Day 2 • Taking care of me, Mix it fix it, Make a list, Label My Buddy

Day 3 • Time for bed, Bedtime routine, Let's sort, Let's draw

Day 4 • Window or walk, What's in my lunchbox?, Let's draw, Food addition

Day 5 • Describing words, Make a balanced meal, Would you rather?, My journal, Dictionary

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From The Editor, Laureen Fregeau

ECTESOL Review

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Prism Intro Student's Book With Online Workbook Listening And Speaking, And Reading And Writing, Robert Leier, Laureen Fregeau

ECTESOL Review

Prism Intro books use American English along with international and American topics to teach reading, writing, listening and speaking in English. Videos and American college life sections keep student interest.

Student-Directed Esol Family Literacy Program Design, Laureen Fregeau, Robert D. Leier

ECTESOL Review

ESOL Family Literacy programs for Hispanic immigrants have proliferated over past decades to serve the increasing population of ELs needing services. Several factors can disrupt or prevent participation in ESOL Family Literacy programs designed to enhance the academic success of Latin American adult and child immigrants. This qualitative case study set in the Deep South examined a student-directed design process to gain understanding of what would constitute an ideal program for the participating ELs, their families and their community. Emergent categories identified areas of design importance including site locations, time and frequency of class scheduling, curricular design, instructional materials, instructor …

The Benefits Of Implementing Cognitively-Demanding And Context-Embedded Language Translation In The El Classroom, Timothy Rodriquez

ECTESOL Review

The role of the first language in English Learner (EL) programs has been a historically controversial one. In addition, how the first language should be used is not without controversy. This article examines the role of translation in the EL classroom and how teachers should employ it. One approach, concurrent translation, may be considered to be cognitively-undemanding and context-reduced. The author argues that purposeful translation should be cognitively-demanding and context-embedded.

9th–10th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Nature In America, Morgan Spanel, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Exploring the world around you: The United States, "America the Beautiful," Practicing with adjectives

Day 2 • History of National Parks, Describing National Parks, Comparing National Parks

Day 3 • Biomes in the United States, Biomes of North America: outline map, Calculating the climates of biomes

Day 4 • Exploring the world around you: community walk, Identifying trees, Excerpts from A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, 1949

Day 5 • Adjective practice, Journal: what would you preserve?

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9th–10th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Full Of Energy, Morgan Spanel, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Full of energy: what is energy?, Identifying types of energy, Word search

Day 2 • Transfer versus transform, Energy transformation, Draw your own Rube Goldberg machine

Day 3 • History of cars, Calculating gas mileage and speed, Design your own car

Day 4 • Raul's day, Raul's day: identifying energy types, Measuring your energy

Day 5 • Renewable vs. nonrenewable energy, Compare and contrast renewable and nonrenewable energy, Energy is all around us

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K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Shapes, Lacey M. Farmer, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Writing new words, Shapes memory, Make a pattern, Building sentences

Day 2 • Writing new words, Matching, Today's number (63)

Day 3 • Showing location, Exercise addition, Sorting shapes

Day 4 • Shapes walk, Journal writing, Today's number (23)

Day 5 • Searching for shapes, Making pictures from shapes, Write about a picture, Dictionary

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K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: In The Garden, Lacey M. Farmer, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Writing new words, Garden memory, Make a pattern, Building sentences

Day 2 • Writing new words, More than one, Today's number (18)

Day 3 • Corn counting, Sequence writing, Read the story: The garden, Measuring worms, Draw a picture and write the length

Day 4 • Graphing, Journal writing, Today's number (55), Leaf rubbing

Day 5 • Leaf "painting," Can you find...?, Write about a picture, Dictionary

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K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Ocean, Lacey M. Farmer, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Writing new words, Ocean matching, Make a pattern, Building sentences

Day 2 • Writing new words, Ocean yoga, Read the story: In the ocean, Today's number (42)

Day 3 • Fish matching, Sequence writing, Measuring sharks, Draw a picture and write the length

Day 4 • Addition to 20, Journal writing, Today's number (36)

Day 5 • Origami, Connect the dots, Write about the picture, Dictionary

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K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: The Desert, Lacey M. Farmer, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Writing new words, Desert memory, Make a pattern, Building sentences

Day 2 • Writing new words, Desert yoga, Read the story: In the desert, Today's number (34)

Day 3 • Cactus matching, Sequence writing, Measuring snakes, Draw a picture and write the length

Day 4 • Graphic, Journal writing, Today's number (28)

Day 5 • Addition to 20, Connect the dots, Write about the picture, Dictionary

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K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Hygiene, Lacey M. Farmer, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Learning new words, Germs are everywhere, Washing our hands

Day 2 • Brush your teeth, Toothbrush subtraction, Toothbrush tracking, Start with today's new words

Day 3 • Start with today's new words, Healthy habits, Time, Today's number (41)

Day 4 • Exercise and sleep, Journal-favorite exercise, Tangrams, Telling time, Start with today's new words!, Exercise and sleep

Day 5 • Write a dream, What did you learn?, Tell others!

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2nd–3rd Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Where Do I Live? Part 1, Rachael Ballweg, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Vocabulary practice Day 1, Vocabulary trace, Draw your room, Add to 100

Day 2 • Vocabulary practice Day 2, Be a tour guide, Workout time, Meet Theo, Draw Theo's room, Subtract to 100

Day 3 • Practice your vocabulary words, Workout with your buddy, Read a letter from Theo, Subtract to 100

Day 4 • Play Go Fish, Workout with your buddy, Meet Theo, Compare and contrast, Add and subtract with word problems

Day 5 • Match the vocabulary, Draw your Buddy a room, "Here's your new room!," Make a word problem, My dictionary …

2nd–3rd Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Where Do I Live? Part 2, Rachael Ballweg, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Vocabulary practice Day 1, Vocabulary trace, Workout time, Drawn your neighborhood, Repeated addition, Journal writing

Day 2 • Vocabulary practice Day 2, Vocabulary write, Workout time, City dog, country dog, Repeated addition, Journal writing

Day 3 • Vocabulary practice Day 3, Word find, Workout time, City dog, country dog, Write a diary entry, Arrays and repeated addition, Journal writing

Day 4 • Vocabulary practice Day 4, Memory game, Workout time, Rex's neighborhood, Use text features, Repeated addition arrays, Journal writing

Day 5 • Vocabulary practice Day 5, Draw your neighborhood, Pictures to cut out, …

2nd–3rd Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Weather And Seasons, Rachael Ballweg, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Vocabulary practice Day 1, Vocabulary trace, Weather mini book, What time is it?, Journal writing

Day 2 • Vocabulary practice Day 2, Workout time: garbage bag kite, The strongest wind: tornadoes, Journal writing

Day 3 • Vocabulary practice Day 3, Read the clues, Workout time: yoga, Blizzards!, How much time?, Journal writing

Day 4 • Vocabulary practice Day 4, Describe the picture, Timed workout, A big wave!: hurricanes, How much time?, Journal writing

Day 5 • Vocabulary practice Day 5, Make a weather report, When will it be over? (how much time has elapsed?), …

4th–5th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Our Planet, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Packet #1 Outline: Our Planet (activity, content area)

Choose a Buddy

Reading daily practice

Roll your sight words #1

Vocabulary

Vocabulary cards: Earth

Our planet

Fill in the blanks

Vocabulary matching

My report

Math daily practice

Numbers in word form and expanded form

Math facts about Earth

Where do I come from?

Let's move!

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4th–5th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Habitats, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Packet #2 outline: habitats

Choose a Buddy

Reading daily practice

Roll your sight words #2

Vocabulary cards: habitats

Habitats

Write and draw

Facts and opinions about habitats

Compound words

Vocabulary cut and paste

Writing a poem: acrostic

Math daily practice

Coordinate habitat

Goods from habitats

Lunchtime goods and services

Let's take a break!

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4th–5th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Deserts, Claudia Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Packet #3 outline: deserts

Choose a Buddy

Reading daily practice

Desert vocabulary

Desert vocabulary cards

Deserts

Desert notes

Memory game: vocabulary packets 1-3

Drawing my sentences

Writing a poem: sensory poem

Creative writing: lost in the desert

Math unit conversions

Desert facts conversions

Importing and exporting

What does your country export and import?

Desert diorama

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4th–5th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Rainforests, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Activities

Choose a Buddy

Packet #5 outline: rainforests

Sorting sight words

Sorting sight words match

Parts of a plant vocabulary

Read, label, and write

Life cycle of an apple tree

Sequence of a plant life cycle

Rainforest vocabulary

Rainforests

Rainforest vocabulary cards

Layers of the rainforest

My rainforest habitat

Rainforest report

Spelling my words

The Jaguar and the Mouse (adapted from Aesop's fable)

Character's feelings

Feelings chart

Creative writing

Nouns, adjectives, and verbs

Decimals to fractions

Rainforest fraction facts

Learn to draw bats

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4th–5th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Oceans, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Packet #4 outline: oceans

Choose a Buddy

Sight word phrases 1-minute race

Ocean vocabulary

Ocean vocabulary cards

Oceans

My informational text in 3-2-1

Texting my vocabulary words

Creative writing

Deserts

Compare and contrast

Rounding numbers

Rounding ocean numbers

Our planet's oceans

Paper plate fish

How to solve a crossword puzzle

My vocabulary crossword

Let's move!

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Traveling To Mexico, Ronnie Grace, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Traveling to Mexico!, Vocabulary you need to know, Where in the world are we?, Mexico's flag, Mexico's language, Pack your suitcase!, Mexico's climate, What do you know? What do you want to learn?, Let's go to Mexico!

Day 2 • Vocab review, Weather in Mexico, Instagram post!, Mexico's geography (land), Geography questions, Math review

Day 3 • Vocab review, Math review, Soccer in Mexico, Your turn!, Sugar skull art

Day 4 • Vocab review, Chichén Itzá, Plants in Mexico, What is the same and what is different?, Money in Mexico

Day 5 • Vocab review, "Juego de …

6th–8th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Australia, Ronnie Grace, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Traveling to Australia!, Vocabulary you need to know, Where in the world are we?, Australia's flag, Pack your suitcase!, What do you know? What do you need to know?

Day 2 • Vocabulary review, Australia's geography, Geography questions, Math practice

Day 3 • Math practice, Rugby vs. football, Great Barrier Reef

Day 4 • Vocabulary review, Wildfires in Australia. Australian Outback

Day 5 • Vocab practice, What did you learn in Australia?, The Sydney Opera House, Goodbye, Australia!

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Russia, Ronnie Grace, Aaron Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Traveling to Russia!, Vocabulary you need to know, Where in the world are we?, Now it's your turn!, Russia's flag, Pack your suitcase!, What do you know? What do you want to learn?

Day 2 • Vocabulary review, Time to write, Russia's climate, Questions!, Math practice

Day 3 • Vocabulary review, Time to write, Math practice, Let's write poetry!

Day 4 • Vocabulary review, White Night festival, Now it's your turn!, Russian money and way of life, Your turn!

Day 5 • Stargazing in Russia, Your turn!, Cathedrals in Russia, Your turn!, Postcard reflection, Goodbye, Russia!

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Egypt, Ronnie Grace, Aaron Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Traveling to Egypt!, Vocabulary you need to know, Where in the world are we?, Egypt's flag, Pack your suitcase! What do you know? What do you want to learn?

Day 2 • Vocabulary review, The desert in Egypt, Desert questions, Math practice

Day 3 • Math practice. Whirling in Egypt, Good luck animals in Egypt, Your turn!

Day 4 • Vocabulary practice, Pyramids in Egypt, Your turn!, Way of life in Egypt

Day 5 • Make a pyramid, Falafel, Reflection activity, Goodbye, Egypt!

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9th–10th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Finding Your Voice, Morgan Spanel, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Finding your voice: what does it mean to vote?, History of voting, Neighborhood walk: collecting data, Graphing data

Day 2 • Choosing the right path for you, Superlatives and comparatives, Describing the data

Day 3 • Vote by mail: is it safe, fair and ready for November? by Christian Science Monitor, adapted by Newsela staff, Mathematics of voting

Day 4 • 2020 Presidential election issues, Taking a stand

Day 5 • Comparing the Presidential candidates, Who would you choose for our next President?

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9th–10th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Who Am I?, Morgan Spanel, Aaron Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Who am I? reading comprehension, Create your own family tree, Calculating ages, Family tree vocabulary practice

Day 2 • Cute features caused by gene mutations by ThoughtCo.com, adaptation by Newsela staff, Examining fingerprints, Find and complete the pattern, Practicing sequence words and phrases

Day 3 • What do dominant and recessive mean? by Washington Post, adapted by Newsela staff, Practicing with Punnett squares, My own dominant and recessive genetics, Graphic genetic traits

Day 4 • Who am I? Barack Obama: timeline of important events, Timeline of interesting events from my life, Mirella's eyes: identifying sequence language, Family …