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Homeless Turtle
Norman Spores
United States



I am back! I have been away for a while, although I have been stopping in periodically to see how you guys were doing. I am a teacher living in Japan and this site has made my life so much easier. Although I am being pulled in many different directions right now, I thought it necessary to make a renewed effort to give something back to this community and all you wonderful Teachers!

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ALPHABET BINGO ( plus call sheet )
Students Love Bingo! They can practice reading and writing their alphabet. Hand out an ALPHABET BINGO sheet to each player. Each player fills out their ALPHABET BINGO sheet by selecting 16 letters from the "blackboard" at the top of their card. After all the players have completed filling out their sheets, the game begins! The teacher will call out...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 56


 
Presidents Day Worksheet
I use this to help introduce Presidents Day to my Japanese students. They really seem to like the President Obama clipart!
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8


 
Happy Birthday Aesop Reading Comprehension and Grammar lesson(4pages)
Do you know of Aesops Fables? While many people know about his stories, few know about his life. This lesson includes a reading exercise about Aesops life complete with a new vocab review and comprehension questions. Pgs 2&3 have some fables which the students complete by inserting the correct form of the irregular verbs or the present continuous f...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 12


 
St. Patrickīs Day Pictionary and Wordsearch
I hope It is not too late! I use this worksheet with my students to introduce the St.Patricks Day holiday. Then we discuss the history and culture of Ireland. They really seem to enjoy this lesson! Have a great St.Patrickīs Day, and donīt forget your green!
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 35


 
Happy Valentineīs Day (reading/listening comprehension quiz)
I teach English in Japan and I made this for my 7th grade class. Itīs a short history on the holiday, which can be read by the students or out loud by the teacher. Their is a short quiz at the end to test comprehension. I know itīs not very exciting, but this is the first thing I have posted, so I will try to get better at this. I hope this helps.
Level: elementary
Age: 11-14
Type: Choose
Downloads: 37


 
Mardi Gras
I made this for my Japanese students, to help introduce them to Mardi Gras. I included a short reading/listening comprehension quiz with it. The article can be read by the teacher or students and then they can take the quiz to help gauge comprehension. It made for a very fun and intresting class! I hope it does the same for you.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: article
Downloads: 31


 
I have a Spell Chequer
I came across this poem during my travels throughout the World Wide Web and I thought I would share it with you. I find that my students tend to rely almost exclusively on the spell checker in their computers and donīt understand the importance of learning a few basic spelling rules. This Poem helps to illustrate what Iīm talking about. I hope that...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 9


 
Baseball Warm Up Worksheet: Vocabulary Matching Part 2 of 3
I use it as a quick warm up with my students and they love it! It gives them a chance to practice new vocabulary about one of their favorite topics...Baseball! Students look at the words in the box and then match them to their correct pictures. June is the beginning of summer in America and summer means Baseball! The baseball was invented on June 1...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 15


 
A Motherīs Day Dozen: Understanding the meaning of words from their context.
Students read the Motherīs Day quotes and then take the reading comprehension quiz on the second page. The quiz will ask them to define the meaning of certain words in the quotes by using the context of the sentences. The quiz is 12 questions long, half are multiple choice and the other half are true or false. Many ESL students struggle with unf...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11


 
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Halloween Lesson)
This is one of my favorite Halloween Stories; my students have so much fun learning about this very spooky tale!It was written by Washington Irving in 1820 and is considered to be a classic piece of American literature, Disney made the cartoon version of this way back in 1949. I have included a plot summary which may be used by the students to intr...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 116

 

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