Lessons for Second Language Learners


Creative Educator lesson plans provide an engaging and creative approach second language learners.

This page includes a small sampling of lesson ideas from Creative Educator that can help language learners demonstrate content understanding, build vocabulary and build fluency.

You can find additional ideas by clicking the Lessons link at the top and choosing which subject you would like to explore.

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Adapt a Pattern Story

Students practice writing and illustrating as they create a page in your class's adaptation of their favorite pattern story.

illustration of river filled with words like observing and sensing

Five Senses Poetry

In this lesson, students write a five senses poem to share information about a favorite place or topic they are exploring.

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Harmonious Haiku

After reading examples and learning about this short form of Japanese poetry, students write and illustrate their own haiku poems.

Korean Silk image from Joseon Dynasty

Spectacular Sijo

In this lesson, students read and learn about the Korean form of sijo poetry and then write and illustrate their own sijo poems.

Stretching the truth idiom

Idiomatically Speaking

Students will illustrate the meaning of an idiom to help others learn these examples of figurative language.

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The ABC’s of …

In this lesson, students create an alphabet book to share knowledge and information they have learned, organizing their writing using the ABC’s.

Create a Visual Poem

Create a Visual Poem

Students will create a visual, or video, poem as they analyze the imagery in a text.

image of front of vocubulary trading card for the word verdant

Vocabulary Trading Cards

In this lesson, students create vocabulary trading cards that use images to help other students master the meaning of new words.

Cool Word Vocabulary

Cool Word Vocabulary

Students will combine text and visuals create visual vocabulary cards with words and photos.

The 13 Days of Halloween

The 13 Days of Halloween

Students practice counting through the creation of a Halloween counting book.

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Seeing Shapes

Students learn about 2-dimensional shapes and create a class book identifying these shapes around their school.

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Mondrian Math

Students color a page in the style of Piet Mondrian and then count, describe, and compare the shapes and colors.

Magical Metamorphosis � Butterfly Life Cycle Stories

Magical Metamorphosis

Students explore the life cycle of a butterfly as they write and illustrate stories that show the stages of a butterfly’s metamorphosis.

image of clear snow globe in front of alpine habitat

Habitat Snow Globes

In this lesson, students design a snow globe highlighting a specific habitat, showing the plants, animals, and organisms found there.

US Symbol Stories

US Symbol Stories

In this lesson, students tell the story of a US symbol from it’s perspective.

outline of family with country flags inside

Fashion a Family Flag

In this lesson, students explore symbols in the world around them and create a flag that represents the characteristics and values of their family.

Map It!

Map It!

Students will demonstrate map making skills as they create maps of the geographic features, regions, and economy of their state.

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Me: A Visual Essay

Students build media literacy skills as they create a visual essay to share information about themselves.

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