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Welcome to the everything for ell blog!

Ready to enjoy teaching again? Need ideas for your high school ESL students? Save yourself time and scan through these posts to see what matches your need. You can use the category buttons to sort posts by topic. I look forward to sharing with you ideas that have worked well for my students. I am passionate, committed, and dedicated to supporting ESL students.

Plural Nouns: 3 Common Mistakes with Quick Fixes

“I have two brother.” “The childrens are playing.” “I have a lot of homeworks.” If you teach newcomers, you’ve heard

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4 Essential ELPS Changes Every Texas Teacher Should Know

Big ELPS changes are coming to Texas classrooms. The old framework, first laid out in 2012, has shaped EB student

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Breaking Down the Updated ELPS: Looking at the New Language Patterns in All 4 Domains

There is something unpleasant about having to interupt my peaceful summer mornings with PD involving a stranger asking me to

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3 Reasons Quick Scripts Are My FAVORITE Activity for ELL Listening

When I first started teaching EFL in Istanbul, I was expected to develop students’ listening skills simply by teaching in

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3 Reasons Grammar Sorts are a Win for Students (And Teachers Too!)

Grammar instruction does not have to mean worksheets, drills, and endless corrections. One of my favorite ways to help multilingual

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5 Ways ESL Board Games + Visuals = Speaking Success

Getting ESL students to speak was the ultimate challenge this year. Many were working at different language levels, most were

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Simple Past & Present Perfect: 4 Lesson Ideas that Blend Tenses to Boost Fluency

If you teach English as a langauge, you’ve probably seen this pattern with the simple past & present perfect: I

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STAAR Editing: What English Teachers Need to Know

I’ve taught STAAR English I and English II for the past 12 years, and every single year I dissect the

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3 Ways ESL Students Benefit From Native-Language YouTube Captions

If you use YouTube videos in your classroom, you’re probably aware of how powerful visuals can be for language learners.

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Modals Mustn't, Don't Have To, Must, and Have To: The #1 Reason Why Students Struggle

When I first started teaching English as a language, I came across an intermediate lesson that left me a bit

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Students dropping the simple present tense -s? Try these 5 strategies!

The most common mistake I see with the simple present tense, even among my more advanced students, is dropping the

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STAAR English 1 and English 2: Essential Reading TEKS for Powerful Test Prep (updated for 2026)

Every year, the STAAR English 1 and English 2 exam is released and teachers face the same question:Where should we

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