The Pilgrim's First Thanksgiving by Ann Mc Govern. To make difficulty level irrelevant, tell the story using the pictures in the book. Review the story several times by asking students to point to the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, etc. First graders and young beginners like to hear about the children on the Mayflower. Have students color and glue a commercial reproducible picture of the Mayflower so that the ship stands up on a sheet of light blue paper.
Students can make an ocean by drawing waves on the paper with a dark blue marker.
Brainstorm 4 or 5 important facts about the Mayflower as a group and write these facts on sentence strips. There should be a strip for each student in the group. Students may be able to sequence these strips if they have enough English. Present the story of the Mayflower to the ESL students' classes. If students are older but don't speak much English, put together your own teacher-made book by writing a sentence on the computer at the top of each page.