Sentence Strips Learning Strategy

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Below are three different ways to use sentence strips in BrainPOP ELL lessons. They all involve cognitive skills – putting items on a continuum, sequencing events from the movie, and matching sentence...

Say Something Learning Strategy

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Say Something allows students to stop and think about what they read in a reading passage, or saw in a BrainPOP ELL movie. They may say anything they want – make a prediction, ask a question, make a c...

Connect Two Learning Strategy

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In a Connect Two activity, students think of any connections they want between any two of the new vocabulary words. They use the words on an analytical level, and make connections to them, before they...

Close-Viewing Questions Learning Strategy

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Close-viewing questions require students to look for specific information about a BrainPOP ELL movie. They will require repeated viewing of the movie for students to observe, research, analyze, evalua...

1.1.3 Be (Questions) Lesson Plan

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In the BrainPOP ELL movie, What Is It? (L1U1L3), Moby comes to visit Ben, bringing him a surprise. As Ben tries to guess what’s in the box, students are introduced to the interrogative form of the ver...

Wh- Question Picture Prompts

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Use these picture prompts to practice asking questions using the Wh- question words what, where, who....

Beginning Vocabulary Activities Learning Strategy

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The following is a series of activities to teach themed vocabulary to beginners. For each of these games, you must have either a picture to represent each new word, or realia. Considering students’ di...

The Four BrainPOP ELL Characters

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This printable has images of the four BrainPOP ELL characters: Ed, Nikki, Moby, and Ben. It can be used as prompts to practice pronouns, the verb to be, adjectives, and simple sentences....
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1.1.1 Subject Pronouns Lesson Plan

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In BrainPOP ELL’s first movie, Hi, I’m Ben (L1U1L1), Ben introduces students to his friends using subject pronouns, and the verb to be and its contractions. In this subject pronouns lesson plan, adapt...
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Webinar Withdrawal?

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This July, you may have noticed that we're taking a break from the weekly webinar series on BrainPOP Educators. Even though we're not broadcasting live, there is plenty of great content in our archive...