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For those of you that have native Spanish-speaking ESL students in your classroom, here is a book recommendation that will really help a lot: NTC's Dictionary of Spanish Cognates Thematically Organized (Nash 1990). You can find it here. Freeman and Freeman (2004) state, "One way that etchers can help student develop both content-specific and general academic vocabulary is through the student of cognates" (p. 210). Studying cognates, particularly thematically, is really helpful in developing your student's academic vocabulary. I hope you'll check it out!

Resources for Teaching Subject-Verb Agreement

Subject-Verb agreement is an area of particular difficulty for ESL students, largely due to English's complex verb system and the differences in "rules" among languages. Here are some resources to help you plan.

Activities:
http://www.eslgamesplus.com/subject-verb-agreement-game/
http://www.ehow.com/info_8397360_activities-teaching-subjectverb-agreement.html

Anchor charts:
http://www.pintrest.com/search/pins/?q=subject%20verb%20agreement%20anchor%20chart&rs=ac&len=12