Free ESL Teacher Resource Grade 1

Greetings and Introductions — Unit Teacher's Guide

About This Resource

A three-page planning guide that maps all nine companion Greetings and Introductions resources into a suggested 6-day pacing plan, with planning notes, teaching tips, and differentiation strategies.

Overview

This guide ties the entire Greetings and Introductions collection together, summarizing what each of the nine companion resources contains and explaining the planning decisions behind which resource types were built — including why a separate sorting activity and listening drill weren't built as standalone resources, since the Conversation Match-Up and Speaking Activity already cover that ground, and why the reading passage covers all ten greetings rather than only part of the set. It lays out a suggested 6-day pacing plan and includes six teaching tips, including a note on the unit's reusable child-character icon design and its one two-character scene.

Resource Details

Subject: ESL
Topic: Teacher's Guide
Category: Lesson Plans
File Type: PDF
File Size: 58.5 KB
Published: 02 Sep 2026
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Grade 1 Lesson Plan Teacher's Guide

Learning Objectives

This guide has no direct student learning objective — it supports teachers in sequencing the unit's nine resources across a multi-day greetings-and-introductions unit and flagging practical classroom considerations along the way.

How to Use This Resource

Read the "What's in This Collection" table to see every resource in the unit at a glance.
Read the Planning Notes to understand why certain resource types were adapted for this topic.
Use the Suggested 6-Day Unit Plan as a starting structure, adjusting to fit your own class schedule.
Reference the Teaching Tips section, especially the note on the verb to be, before starting the unit.

Differentiation

Unit-level differentiation strategies (starting with only the highest-frequency greetings for a slower pace, and challenging early finishers to extend a greeting exchange with an extra line) are detailed within this guide.

Teacher Tips

Don't feel bound to exactly six days — the suggested pacing table is a starting point, and the Differentiation section offers guidance for classes that need a slower start on the highest-frequency greetings.