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Course, Subject

English Language Arts, English as a Second Language

Description

Use these tongue twisters with older students. They work well as an extension activity.
1) She sells seashells by the seashore.
2) Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
3) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
4) How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Website(s)

ESL-Kids.com

Author

ESL-Kids.com provides free resources for ESL educators, including flashcards, worksheets, and classroom games.

Related Academic Standards

New York State

ESL 

ESL.I.5-8.2 Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for literary response, enjoyment, and expression.

ESL.I.5-8.2.1 Students learning English as a second language will use English for self-expression, artistic creation, and participation in popular culture. They will develop and use skills and strategies appropriate to their level of English proficiency to listen to, read, and respond to oral, written, and electronically produced texts and performances, relate texts and performances to their own lives and other works, and develop an understanding of the diverse social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances represent.

ESL.I.5-8.2.1.1.MI Sources such as picture books, myths, fables, poems, stories, plays, novels, and other fiction and nonfiction texts in authentic and modified forms, including works of American popular culture.

ESL.I.5-8.5.1.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of cultural and language patterns and norms in American English, including different regional and social varieties of English.

ESL.C.9-12.5.1.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of cultural and language patterns and norms in American English, including different regional and social varieties of English, and identify and interpret how these patterns and norms are used.