Halloween Resources for Elementary ELL

More resources for Halloween !! Here´s the link: 

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Label the cards. Review face and body vocabulary besides the clothes of these Halloween children. I made two size labels. Laminate  or place each one into a plastic sheet and they can write all the words instead of gluing.

I see Coloring Book.  Some teachers see coloring as a waste of time but it has many advantages. It improves the student´s handwriting. They can learn how to be patient, to focus on their work, to concentrate. It stimulates creativity and self- expression. 

Candy Corn Color Words. Just a simple worksheet that children color as indicated. 

Then have them cut all the candy corns. 

Say a new way to put a candy corn together.

Teacher: pink, white, orange.

This is a good listening activity. But turn it into speaking as a student says another option and the class builds the candy corn as said. They can do this in small group and paste it onto cardboard for decoration.

A set of Flashcards to introduce and assist in learning the Halloween words. Just print them. I made them small so it is easy to carry from one class to another.

Make a grid on the board, on one side the letter and on the other the number.

Say a letter and number combination:

Teacher: D4

Students: bag ! 

Use the template and make bottle caps letters to write the Halloween words.

I made a Haunted House! I glued it onto a shoe box and all the characters I placed them on the biggest clip I found.

This is the teacher´s version for reviewing prepositions.

Place the characters and say a sentence.

Teacher: The cat is behind the house. Continue with the other Halloween children.

Then ask questions:

Teacher: Where is the ghost ?

Students: He is in front of the house.

Hand in the student´s version. Have them make a poster by putting up their own version of the Haunted House. They will have to write some sentences and present it to the class. It can be done individually or in groups.

The Pocket chart ! They work as visuals for students to make connections in reading. They can associate sentences to pictures by themselves or in small groups.

A nice memory game. But I also made a witch that can be fed with the Halloween words. I glued her onto the tap of the shoe box that I used for the Haunted House.

Play the concentration card game using Halloween flashcards, or the old game Go Fish:  I usually print 4 copies of the cards and paste them onto black construction paper.   In groups of 4, students sit in a circle and take turning asking each other a question. Do you have (a ghost)?  If the answer is YES, the student hands in the card and the students that asked makes a pair and put it away on his/her pile. If the answer is NO, the student doesn´t get a card and the turn is for another student in the circle. The winner is the student that makes more pairs.

 Another book with the Halloween characters on cars.

I added puppets to make a running race with the puppets and assign first, second place to review the ordinal numbers.

The Matching cards are fun to play. 

I got the idea to make colored plates because buying a set of plates in each color is too much money. I got small paper plates and colored the inner circle in each. Then it is just sort the cards in each plate.

  And just pairing all the cards is a good reading activity.

Play Bingo with the cards! Hand in a Spinner to each student and have them write any color and Halloween noun combination and play the Bingo game.

Halloween Candy Corn Friends for Elementary ELL

Just reviewing some old Halloween resources, I found this book I created years ago. I added some more things and here is the product.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Candy-Corn-Friends-3424290

I have two readers for this resource. 

Present the book to the students, tell them that it is about Candy Corn Friends. Many students have not seen a candy corn. They don´t know what it is. Explain that it is a candy used in Halloween.

Read aloud the book for them.  Read using different voices for each Candy Corn. Such as a stronger voice for Frank and a different one for the witch.  After reading discuss the book. Ask them questions about the characters.

Teacher: What color is Frank ?

Students: He is green.

                    The other one can be just for reading or use it as a coloring book.

                                          

                                               Here is how mine turned out.

For introducing the story use the puppets. Show them the characters of the book before reading.  And you can use them after reading for the students to create their own story to present to the class. I made mine by gluing a craft stick but you can use a glove, felt anything to create wonderful puppets.

   

And crowns can work for retelling the story or for role play. Recounting the story is a skill to grow. Retelling using props helps the students comprehend the story. You can read and have the students come to the front one by one as you mention them  with their crown.

Here is an interesting part, an interactive book. A little cutting, gluing and putting together their book. 

I made mine using a book ring.

And then students can play in small groups. The board game has the characters. I made them stand using a clip. This a simple board game that doesn't take a lot of time to play.

And there´s another version where the students have to say a word with each letter of Halloween. Teach the rule that when a player lands on an H, a word starting with letter h must be said in order to stay in that place, if not, the student  has to stay where he/she was before.

Pocket charts are also a good way to play in small groups making the sentences. I only have this little red pocket chart. I thought that didn´t have a place in the English language Teaching, but I started doing things and they are quite useful. Besides making sentences, students can sort the Halloween Characters by color. You can use them to create the sequence of the story book. Place all the characters in alphabetical order.

And finally, make a coloring book to take home. By coloring in class, it helps to prepare students more structured lessons in the years to come. Coloring the Candy Corn characters  will motivate the students to appreciate the difference between the characters. They can come with imaginative ways to color their Candy Corn friends.

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House Theme Resources for Elementary ELL

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Board games are a fun time in class. The classic board game can be played to activate speaking in a less stressful setting, they can participate without worrying if they said it wrong. Children get to compete to win, but they have to know the vocabulary. So, starting playing the house unit board game featuring the furniture in the house.

You can have the students play by just counting the spaces that are in the die and read the phrases: Go back, Go ahead, Miss 1 turn and do the actions. But you can place the small cards along and have each player move the spaces in the die if the word in the card is read correctly or if the picture cards are identified .

 I used funny house items as markers, so each player can be a house object, such as a chair or a sofa. I put them in a binder clip so each marker can stand on board game without falling.

Graphing.  I made three different graphs for vocabulary building.

 The first one, Who lives in your house ?

Give children a house and have them write the family members who live in their house. Or Have them cut from the templates their family members. They should also write their names. Then they have to make a total count.

Graph the results on the board. Make a chart in advance with the student´s names and the numbers on the other.

The second one is related to: How many pets live in your house?

 And the third graph is, How many rooms are in your house? This kind of graph will help identify the rooms in a house.

I like to have some cards for student interaction. Here are the ones that I made for this House Unit. I chose the most frequent words in the Book Series that most of you use. I also included some British words for the same objects, since I noticed that in some countries teachers use the British methods. I can make some more cards if you ask.

Picture and word cards are just matching, well yes, but do more things with them.use them for interactive lessons.

The cards give learners more opportunities to hear and speak English.  The games cane be played alone or in small groups. I saw this idea on Pinterest of using plastic plates. You can write on it with dry erase markers and then wipe it off with baby wipes. You can write the word on each plate or have a student write the word and the other has to find the picture.

If it is possible, have your own bulletin board for a word wall. Place the letters from A to Z and have the students put all the pictures under each letter.

Or  place only the words. I made letters in black and white just in case you want to print them onto colored cardboard and save some ink.

It can also be picture and word cards for the home hands-on learning game.

 If not, have them make their own Pictionary as fun engaging activity.

The flashcards! I made more than 270 House Objects Flash Cards to use as a visual aid.

                            Ideas for using the flashcards.

Use 3. Place students in groups of 2. Hand them 4 flashcards. Tell them to write several sentences using all the words in the flashcards. Model your own example.

Use 4. Describe the flashcard. Model  one and hand each student a flashcard. Have them write as many sentences as they can to describe a picture. Start with: This is my bathroom. 

Use 5. Play give me by Spelling. Students play in groups of 4. Hand in more than 8 flashcards, try that they start with the same letter. One student is the speller. The others have to find the flashcard. Model on the board.

Teacher: S-H-E-L-F

The students shout SHELF!

Use 6. Cut the word part from several flashcards. Then cut the word in several pieces. Put them in a bag and have students put the word back on each flashcard as in puzzles.

Use 7. Label the flashcards. If you place each flashcard in a plastic sheet they can label with a dry erase marker and then erase it for other students to use.

Use 8. I made additional small word cards. They can be sorted in each room of the house

I also included a worksheet to do the same as with the flashcards. Students will say where the pieces of furniture are: The bathtub is in the bathroom.

And a complete house.

Furniture catalog. Introduce the catalog to the students by asking where does their family buy furniture, if there is a furniture store that they have been to. Tell them that they are going to make a group furniture catalog. I added several ways to do it.

 One, is that I provided all the pieces. Tell the students to glue the furniture pieces in the spot of the appropriate heading. The catalog´s cover is in blank for the students to write the name of their store.

Students can cut pictures from old magazines that they bring in to school and create their own version. When the catalogs are done. Have them share their work. They can also role play with other groups that come to buy from their catalogs and take orders.

Scrabble Tiles. I suggest you print a template for each student or several templates for a group. Have them come up with a crossword.  This game is good for Spelling practice. It also works for the students to identify  pieces of furniture.

Spelling Bingo. I usually include this game because I know that students love it and are willing play many times. I made a house template for it. It is harder to teach ELL students to spell than to read. Some teachers think that Spelling is not important while others focus too much on that area.

I have found so many Verb Clipart in old Cds that I included them. Games for social interaction? 

1.      Go get it. Stick several verb Flashcards on the board. Make several teams that have to line up in front of the board at a considerable distance. Say a sentence that describes the flashcard. The first student to get the correct flashcard from the board wins it for the team.

Teacher: The girl is eating ice cream.

Students should be able to state where people are: She is in the kitchen.

Use the flashcards to ask questions: Where is Grandma? 

Students. She's in the living room.

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  The flashcards are used to prompt writing. Have students sit in pairs and hand them several flashcards. Have them come up with a story, but first model a story as a  class on the board. Start with: Mother and Father are in the kitchen.

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