The document contains several writing prompts and exercises for ESL students. It includes prompts asking students to discuss challenges of being a student, favorite foods and reasons for liking them, correcting sentences with grammatical errors, identifying opposites and words within other words, summarizing a video, making predictions based on titles, and discussing the reading process.

1. Reading

2. ESL C Writing Journal
What are some of the challenges to being a student? Now
trade, read, and report.

3. ESL B Writing Journal
What is your favorite food? Give three reasons why it is your
favorite food. Now trade, read, and report.

4. ESL 1 Warm Ups
Correct the sentences:
His bike is blue with a orange seat
She owned many puppys
Which toys is in the toy box
Them girls like to ride bikes.

5. Warm ups
Which word is the opposite of “soft”?:
Fast Slow Hard
Finish this sentence:
She had one box, he had two ________.
What two words are in cupcake?: _____ and _____

6. ESL 1 Writing Journal
In your own words, what happens in the video. Summarize
it!

7. Summary
• A summary is a retelling of the reading.
• Write in the present tense.
• Make sure to include the author and title of the work.
• Be concise: a summary should not be equal in length to the original text.
• If you must use the words of the author, cite them.
• Don't put your own opinions, ideas, or interpretations into the summary. The purpose of
writing a summary is to accurately represent what the author wanted to say, not to
provide a critique.

8. Prediction
Prediction is when you say what you think will happen.
Try and predict what will happen based on the title.
Connect to prior knowledge

9. Reading Process
What did you read?
How did it connect to what you already read?
What do you think will happen next?
Read on.