Try "Tell Me More" by Dr. Andrew Finch.

Students' material: http://www.finchpark.com/books/tmms/
Teacher guide: http://www.finchpark.com/books/tmm/index.htm

I've taken a look through here and used it with some of my other students. There are all kinds of activities that you can do. It's also about 200 pages long so you'll have some stuff to last you for awhile. It also has some really good group speaking activities in there where you have to survey your classmates. I think it's got some good stuff in there. And it's totally free. Enjoy~!

I'm going to use that book.  I've been dying to find something decent to do for afterschool classes as I struggled to get through them last semester when I first started teaching.  Thank you for sharing!

ASC can be a real pain.. this term I'm gonna do a series of projects that take 4 or more lessons each to complete.. that way, students just get on with their work, in the classes, it takes the pressure off being constantly creative. Plus everyone thinks your great when the class is suddenly filled with huge attractive a2 posters and comic strips.

yes thank you so much for posting!

lisa, I really like the book club idea, but how do you deal with students having drastically different levels of English? There are students from grade 1, 2, and 3 in my class, some with a decent level of English, others can hardly write the alphabet :(. This fact alone is making my planning very difficult!

TV Show: "Unnatural History".  It's for kids AND adults, and I love it.  Very engaging content.

Right now I am teaching an ASC with 3rd graders.  For each week I pick a theme or topic and each day I have something I do every week with them.  For example one week was on Halloween.

Monday: Is song day.  I have them listen and fill in the blanks or pick the correct word.  I go over some of the words they don't know usually with powerpoint.  Sometimes I have them listen to the song and have them draw a scene they might have in the music video.  Then at the end of class I show the music video. Dreams I chose "Thriller by Michael Jackson.  The objective for Mondays are always to practice listening skills and on culture

Tuesday: Is article day where I just have them read an article and answer the questions. "The legend of the Jack-O-Lantern.  The objective for Tuesdays is to have them practice their reading and comprehension

Weds: is Dialogue day where I find or create a dialogue for them to practice. Then have them create their own and then do it in front of the class. Have them talk about Halloween. The objective here is to have students practice speaking and listening

Thursday is activity day. I made them create their own monster. The objective is to have the students practice writing and using their creativity.

Friday is always review day where we play a review game covering mostly that week's topic and some on past weeks. 

I do this every week pick a topic and do the same type of activities.  So far the students enjoy this.  Also since it's themed student hear and use a lot of the same vocabulary and types of speech which is useful for them for remembering the information.

I like your ideas, jwoon! I am starting to do themed-weeks as well. Two weeks ago I did Halloween (create a monster, survive a zombie attack, and trick-or-treating review game). Last week I did travel week with some basic expressions and speaking games, a presentation on U.S. Cities and famous world landmarks, and a review game on Friday. This week I wanted to try to do a week focused on American culture. I'm not quite sure what sort of activities to do for it yet though.

Just out of curiosity, where do you get your articles that you use every week and do you have worksheets for them to answer that are attached or do you talk about them in a group?

I use this news website pretty often, it is for my teachers class though.  They seem to like it and it includes many different ways for them to comprehend the articles.
http://www.newsenglishlessons.com/1011/101124-north_south_korea.html

Let's try this again. Hi Sheila! The online book looks great. Any idea how to download the entire thing without having to save each pdf as a seperate file?

cheers!