English Language Learners Handbooks, Documents & Forms

Program handbooks, documents & forms

For a copy of these handbooks contact:

Office of Graduate Education

Cleveland Hall 70, Pullman, WA 99164-2114

Telephone: 509-335-9195/335-7016

Fax: 509-335-6961

Email: gradstudies@wsu.edu

The following are resources for thematic units, for use in your classroom

Here are the resources:

Amazon – A few lessons for students about the Amazon Rain Forest.
Cooking – Some great ideas for cooking many diverse foods and lots of web sites
Cranes – Use the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes to introduce the concepts of Memorial Day and memorial monuments by “finishing” Sadako’s cranes.
El Ser – A bilingual thematic unit for beginning level High School Spanish class.
Family – A thematic unit for grades 4-6 integrating reading, writing, listening and speaking.
Owls – A fun unit for lower grades integrating ELL standards into the mainstream curriculum.
Planets -This unit on the solar system designed for a 5th grade intermediate ELL class can be adapted for other grades and levels.
Spanish – Five spanish lessons 10th-11th grade levels
Weather – This is Michelle McDonald and Heather Morley’s resource guide to weather thematic units. (Really Cool!)