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Here are more resources for the beginning of the school year:

10 ELL must-haves for the first day of school: http://blog.tesol.org/10-ell-must-haves-for-the-first-day-of-school/

Icebreaker activities, written for ELL teachers but applicable to any language: http://blog.tesol.org/4-icebreakers-to-make-conversations-flow-in-esl-classrooms/

A French teacher’s plans for the first week of French 1: https://mmefarab.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/first-week-plans-2016/

Introduce your students to the concept of proficiency: https://mmefarab.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/lets-talk-about-proficiency/

What should you do about online translators? Laura K. Sexton has a new translator policy for her students: http://www.pblinthetl.com/2016/08/new-translator-policy.html

Ideas for getting to know your students in an online class: http://www.pblinthetl.com/2016/08/getting-to-know-online-students-in.html

Here are some handy electronic resources highlighted in Language Magazine: http://languagemagazine.com/?p=125869

Vocabulary review games for young Spanish learners: http://pequenoele.blogspot.com/2016/08/la-vuelta-al-cole.html

School goals activity for Spanish learners: http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/twiccionario-metas-escolares/

A short essay by national literacy consultant Maggie Beattie Roberts about starting the school year well: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2016/08/20/guest-post-starting-the-new-school-year/

Larry Ferlazzo’s compilation of teachers’ answers to the question “What do you do on the first day of school?”: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/08/09/answers-to-what-do-you-do-on-the-first-day-of-school/