ESL Resources

ESL Sentence Starters for Writing

These traceable sentence starters are designed to help ESL, ELL, and multilingual learners confidently begin writing in different genres. Many students know what they want to say but struggle with how to start a sentence. These sentence frames provide structured support so students can focus on expressing their ideas.

To further support multilingual learners, the sentence starters are also translated into Spanish. This bilingual support helps teachers explain the meaning of the English sentence starters and allows students to make connections between Spanish and English.

This resource introduces sentence starters for four common elementary writing genres:

• Personal Narrative
• Opinion Writing
• Informational Writing
• How-To Writing

ESL Sentence Writing

This resource helps beginning language learners build confidence using structured sentence frames and visual supports. Students will practice forming complete sentences using common sight words while connecting vocabulary to real-world images. Perfect for newcomers and early proficiency levels, this activity supports both speaking and writing development in a clear, scaffolded way.

What’s Included:
✔ Sentence writing worksheets
✔ Visual picture supports
✔ Fill-in-the-blank sentence frames
✔ Print-and-go format (no prep!)

✔ Different vocabulary themes: animals, body, food, verbs, feelings, places in school, community helpers

✔ Sight word/ High frequency word practice

Conversation Cards

These conversation cards make it easy for teachers of multilingual learners understand, practice, and use English in real situations with real-life visuals. Each set of cards focuses on different vocabulary and includes questions to initiate conversations with your students. You can project them on your screen or print them for easy use! Each bundle contains different vocabulary topics that include: Animals, Clothing, Community Helpers, Family, Places, and Seasons!!

ESL Picture Word Search – Vocabulary Puzzles with Pictures

Help your ESL / ELL students build vocabulary while having fun! These picture-supported word search puzzles are designed especially for multilingual learners and newcomers who benefit from visual language support. Great for any students!!! Students search for vocabulary words in the puzzle while using the picture clues to understand the meaning of each word. This makes the activity accessible even for beginner English learners.

These puzzles are great for building word recognition, vocabulary development, and spelling skills in an engaging and low-pressure way.

What's Included

✔ Picture word search puzzles
✔ Vocabulary word lists with picture clues (food, animals, colors, school items, toys, vehicles, emotions, and clothes)
✔ Student-friendly directions
✔ Printable worksheets (No Prep)

Picture Vocabulary Assessment

This is a great resource to see what basic vocabulary a student may know in both English and Spanish. It allows you to keep a number score so you can see how much they have grown with each assessment given through a given period of time.

Common Phrases and Vocabulary Slides

Help your multilingual learners build confidence with common school vocabulary and everyday phrases they need to communicate in the classroom! This resource is designed especially for ESL, ELL, and newcomer students who are learning basic English used in school.

Students will practice common school and survival phrases, school items, and places around the school, helping them develop both vocabulary and speaking skills. These activities support language development while making it easier for students to understand their new classroom environment. This resource is perfect for beginner English learners and can be used during small groups, ESL support lessons, newcomer programs, or whole-class language practice.

What Students Will Practice

• Common classroom phrases
• School vocabulary (items and supplies)
• Places around the school
• Speaking and conversation practice
• Listening and comprehension