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viernes, 17 de agosto de 2018

Sea, ocean or Underwater Animals Unit for Elementary ESL


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71  Sea Life Flashcards. Place several flashcards on the board. Ask questions.
Teacher: What color is the shell ?
Students: It´s yellow.
Teacher: brown!
Students: sea lion and walrus!
Teacher: Is the sea turtle green ?
Students: Yes, it is.

Playing a game in class is an authentic taks that involve peer interaction. It is as easy as ordering alphabetically. I made craft stick puppets  with the sea animals pictures and then ordered them alpahabetically.

Place all the flashcards face down on the desk. Have a leader come to the front and grab a card and read it to the class. Students have to write the animal they hear. After the students have written the word the leader shows the flashcards and the class corrects any spelling mistake.
Use the Point finger to review this and that.
Teacher: This is an orca and that is a prawn.
Do the same by placing several flashcards of the same animal and practice These and Those.
Place more flashcards around the room and have the students say sentences using their own finger.

Numbers. Write the Numbers 10 to 100 in random order under each flashcard. Play!
Teacher: 50!
Students: shark!
Teacher: sea lion!
Students: one hundred!


                            Adjectives: long-short, big-little



Game: Guess the animal.
Play the game with the whole class as an example:
Students: What color is it ?
Teacher: black and white.
Students: Is it big or small ?
Teacher: It´s big!
Students: Orca!
Teacher: YES!!!


Students can play with the small cards. Separate the printable into cards and select the ones that you are working on. Divide the class into pairs. Hand in at least 8 cards to each group. Have Student A write on piece of paper the name of a Sea Animal. Student B has to guess which is that animal.
Student B: What color is it ?
Student A: brown!
Student B: Is it big or small ?
Student A: big!
Student B: walrus!
Student A: YES!! 

Feelings Sea animals Flashcards. I wanted to add some flashcards regarding feelings to recycle the vocabulary words.
Place all the flashcards on the board. Have students come up with a fly swatter and swat the correct flashcard. Practice listening skills as you say the sentence.
Teacher: It is an angry starfish.
Feelings Sea animals Flashcards

Prepositions of place. Draw a beach scene on the board and place the Sea Animals in random order.
Teacher: The crab is at the beach. The crab is next to the starfish.
Have students come up with similar sentences.
You can also hand in all the Sea animals and have the students place them as you say.
Teacher: Lenny, the shark is in the Ocean. The shark  is behind the blue fish.
Or introduce more positional words such as left and right.
Teacher: The crab is on the right.

Practice more positional words with this worksheet. Have the students glue their Sea Animals in any way that they want and then have them write sentences to show to the rest of the class.
As a listening activity, dictate how to  glue the Sea Animals.
Teacher: The octopus is between the crab and the seahorse. 


Practice prepositions using puppets made out of toilet paper tubes.
Build words using bottle caps. I made this template. It´s free at the link.

Parts of the body. Place a flashcard on the board and ask questions about that specific animal body parts. Have them name the body parts they already know the word and help them with the new vocabulary.(LABELING)

And extra practice is always necessary. Hand in all the worksheets and have them work in groups completing the Sea Animals body parts. Have them research the unknown words.

Sea animals habitat.  Sea or Ocean animals live in the same place or in some other. Place a flashcard of the habitat and ask the students which animals they think live in that particular habitat to create a mind map. I have ocean, sea, beach, river and lakeAsk the students to draw the habitat and the animals that live there. They can investigate and make their own diorama or picture. Have them do a show and tell to the class.

Sea Animals also eat.Create another mind map with the flashcards on the board.

 Make a Sea Life Table. Have the students make a similar table as the one you are making on the board. Ask them questions. Students usually know details of Sea Animals, if not have them investigate before completing the table.

File folder game. I made them the size of a circle puncher.

Snapshots templates where children can draw the animals and write a sentence for each one.

Sea animals writing or reading. Have the children write sentences using the template or have them write their own sentences to complete a book. 

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jueves, 19 de octubre de 2017

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.
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.



martes, 27 de enero de 2015

Greetings and Introductions

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Hello !
                  Make some people puppets. It can be paper bag puppets or finger puppets. Send me an Email requesting the templates for these for free.(ei98srl@gmail.com)
Hold them up and have them greet each other, modeling  the expressions: Hi and Hello.
       Have students come to the front of the class and greet them.
       Teacher: Hello, Gabriel. (shake student´s hand.)  Encourage the student to answer.
        Student: Hello, teacher.
Continue greeting students individually. Have other students greet each other.
Write the Word Hello on the board. Read the word aloud as you point to it.  Ask students to read it aloud individually and then chorally. Continue with more greeting expressions.
Here´s my Hello Hand worksheet. After tracing the words, cut the hands and make Greetings puppets.
   Greeting Chain: say Hello to a student. Then have that student say hello to the student sitting behind. Continue, in a chain, until all the students have greeted  and have been greeted.

What´s your name ?
Teach the name structure Using tpr. TPR is a language teaching technique which means Total Physical Response. It coordinates language and movements by giving instructions and the students performing them. It helps with a higher retention of the vocabulary or structures taught and develops language fluency.
Model using gestures as you to convey meaning:
Shrug your shoulders for WHAT ?
Point to the student  for YOUR
Trace a circle on your body  for  NAME or point to the name tag if you made them.

Make a name badge  for you and for your students. Point to your name badge and say your name.

 Point to a student and have him/her stand up and say My 


name´s ______ pointing to his/her name badge.

My name's tags

Game: Ask students as a class: What´s your name? and have them all shout out their names holding up their name tags.

Use the Greeting puppets.
Puppet: Hello ! What´s your name ?
Puppet: Hi! My name´s Ann. What´s your name ?
 Puppet: My name´s Bill.
Two other students can come to the front and role play using their own names. Have the students greet each other by shaking hands, model for them if necessary.
Explain that the longer  version  is My name is and the shorter one is My name´s. Write it on the board. And repeat the dialogue using the longer version.

                                Introduce the people at school: boy, girl, teacher.

Game 2: write the word.
Hi, Hello, boy, girl, What, ´s, is, your , name, my.
Make as many copies as you need for your class. Make groups and hand the letters. Say a word and have the students find the letters and make the word by standing up with the letters in order. Give a point to the first group to do so. I glued each letter onto a craft stick for easy handling.

Students can make a big version of all the words on a big construction paper or a smaller version on their notebooks. Here are the letters in a black and white version. Use the opportunity to review the alphabet by assigning a color to each letter.
Teacher: letter a is blue.
 Students color all the letter a in blue. Continue with more directions.

Gather pictures of famous people or Tv characters that children can relate to. Put any of these pictures on the board and a speech bubble next to it. Write My name´s ______ in the speech bubble. Have students name the character and write the name in speech bubble. Then have students read the  speech bubble.  Continue with all the pictures that you brought to class.
I glued the pictures onto fun foam and a craft stick. For the speech bubble , I printed it onto colored paper, placed clear contact paper and glued onto fun foam and craft stick as well. The, I wrote with a white board marker and erased it with baby wipes.
Use the pictures to introduce His/ Her name is _____. 
What´s his/her name ?

 I created a Name Graph Worksheet as seen on PINnterest.   You can use the larger worksheet as a group letter counting in a name. The smaller sheets are for individual letters in a name counting.
Another worksheet that can be used as a frame for younger learners.
What if children draw you and write your name.
Teacher: What is my name ?
Students: Your name is ______.


There is another blog post with more for the greeeting and Introductions. https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/06/greetings-and-farewwells-resource-this.html