ESL Worksheets & Lesson Packets

These ESL worksheets and lessons can save busy teachers planning time. They also provide useful practice to supplement the lesson’s main activities. They can be especially helpful to teachers who don’t have a textbook, or need to teach areas the text does not cover well.

Some ESL worksheet pdfs on EnglishHints

Most ESL worksheet packets include lesson planning suggestions and integrated lessons.

They have ideas for class discussion and games as well as worksheets. 

Some also include links to reading or listening practice or to videos. 

Jump straight to the different worksheet page links (including individual free printable worksheets-- see end of list)

More details:

All are printable pdfs for English language learners from high beginner to advanced.

Most will work in general classrooms for ELL students, or in ESL or EFL classes from 4th or 5th grade up. (They were designed with middle school, high school, or sometimes adult classes in mind.)

Some worksheet packets (like those for prefixes, suffixes, or roots) can also be used for individual study. Others with lesson plans have related packets for individual rather than classroom study.

Using pdfs

To use these ESL worksheets you will need a pdf reader. If you do not already have one, you can download the Adobe Reader for free here.(Be sure to uncheck the McAfee Security Scan if you already have a system you prefer. It conflicts with some other systems…)  

Please remember that these worksheets are under copyright. As the copyright holder, I am giving you the right to use them for your classroom. You may not share or redistribute them without permission. 

(Contact me if your school needs several sets or there’s economic hardship, and we can work something out.)

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Types of ESL Worksheets Here:

• Academic Vocabulary Worksheets (The page explains why it's important to teach academic vocabulary. It includes a free pdf on scientific method vocabulary and a pdf on goals and words for success. It also links to other pages with vocabulary packets.)

• Basic Academic Vocabulary (for writing & test prompts)

• Learn (or Teach) English with Spanish Cognates 

• Common Phrasal Verbs (explanations, examples, and practice for 7 short lessons. It introduces almost 100 very common phrasal verbs.)

• Root, Prefix, and Suffix Worksheets 

• Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes: Worksheets for Individual Study 

• Reading Comprehension Lesson Plans:

        >> 3 free reading comp lesson plans 

       >> The Word Detection packet teaches inference, prediction, and word analysis skills +. It also provides lots of academic vocabulary practice. The Word Detection bundle includes the packet plus the root and affix packets above.

     >> Medical Mysteries has a unit of lesson plans on the history of diseases. The Impact of Disease in History, a Disease Webquest, or the History of Scurvy are individual lessons from Medical Mysteries.

• Reading Comprehension Worksheets 

• Grammar Worksheets has free individual tense worksheets & paid packets of past tense worksheets. 

• Essay Writing Practice 

• Printable Classroom Games has free games & puzzles, plus paid packets with games to practice irregular past tense verbs.

• Free Printable Worksheets links to many of the free individual worksheets above. Many of the vocabulary and quiz worksheets on that page are for advanced students. (Some of them review a lot of vocabulary at once.) 

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