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lunes, 11 de marzo de 2024

Toys Unit Games for the Elementary English Language Learners-Starters

 This resource is included in the Toys Unit for Elementary English Language Learners. Find it here: 

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Toys-unit-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-Starters-1865563

Printable Toys unit games are a fun addition to your resource library. They are engaging and motivating for your students. Students are usually interested to actively participate in the different games available.

The board games are just print and assemble the markers. This kind of games involve strategic thinking. Students will have to describe where they land in order to move on the board.


 Print a worksheet for each student and a set of cards for each group for the descriptive sentence game. Students will have to create as many sentences as they can and draw a representation on the space provided. Award points to longer sentences. This activity contributes to language fluency as they practice constructing sentences. This is an opportunity for the students to gain confidence in using the new language.

descriptive sentence game toys unit

The letter tiles are an interactive learning activity. Students can actively form words or crosswords. Print one or two templates for each group. They will learn to cooperate while putting the letters in words in order.

letter tiles for the toys unit

This toys unit quilt con contextual understanding for the students to match the pictures to the corresponding words. It is a good practice for the retention of the new vocabulary.

Sentence and picture association game is fun to use as a grammar reinforcement practice. It is a cognitive skill builder when children match descriptions with visual representation. 

There are grammar sentences available, but students can write their own. ASentence and picture association game

Many ways to play this toys unit word association game. It can be simple matching the word to the picture, memory and any other to practice turn-taking.

What about having the players construct sentences using the word or picture that are in a pile as they come up.

toys unit word association game

Pocket charts can be used for almost anything that your students need. Have the practice sentence construction and reading as the match the sentence to the picture.

More resources for the toy’s unit

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viernes, 1 de marzo de 2024

Toys Unit small cards for the Elementary English Language Learners-Starters

 This resource is included in Toys Unit for Elementary English language Starters located in this LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Toys-unit-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-Starters-1865563


Use the toys unit small cards for interactive learning for small group activities. Use these to encourage conversation, games and collaborative learning.    It is a great way to present vocabulary using visuals.

present toys unit vocabulary using visuals

Found this activity for spelling practice. Print the template for each student. Have them throw the dice and count the letters in each word. Then, they write it under the corresponding dice. Students can even look up for more toys words and complete the columns.

Another die idea. Make two dice using the cards. I found a shoe box and managed to make the dice cutting up the cards.

Take a look at my die!

The idea is to throw the die and complete the spelling bingo printable. Then, start playing as you call on the words and the students tick them all to shout BINGO! It is a fun and easy way to have the students write the new words and memorize them.

Another easy idea for the students to work individually or in pairs, is to cut the word out of each card and have them match to the picture.

Guess! Place all the small cards in a stack in the middle of a group of students. They will take turns to guess which is the top card before turning it. If he/she could guess, then keeps the card. If not, the card goes to the bottom of the pack. The winner is the one with the most cards.



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lunes, 19 de febrero de 2024

Food unit Games for Elementary English Language Starters

 This resource is part of the Food Unit for Elementary English Language Starters.

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Food-unit-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-Starters-11035412

Games are a valuable and flexible teaching tool in the English Language class. Adapt the games to suit the language proficiency of your students, to their specific needs and abilities. Promote social competence between your learners.

Take a look of the ones included in this resource.

This game in which the students will match the word to a picture of a food or drink item accommodates to the different learning styles present in our classrooms. This game caters to visual learners effectively.

match the word to a picture of a food or drink

Using the same cards to play the grammar bags. Find two lunch bags and glue the words countable and uncountable nouns. Students will sort the cards and justify why based on how you taught them.

grammar bags.

A similar game is with this food quilt to associate the word to the picture.

Board games can be used to reinforce grammar rules. You can use it to review the countable and uncountable nouns, for example. Besides the board and the game pieces there is a set of cards that students will collect once they get to say if the noun is countable or uncountable. Communication systems will activate with a speaker and listener interaction.

Board games

This descriptive sentence game is fun as the students will draw what they managed to write using the cards and then transcribing on the worksheet. They can add more sentences to develop writing skills. This kind of activity encourages the use of more varied vocabulary. They can explore writing more sentences.

descriptive sentence game

Print the food unit domino tiles to promote language acquisition by engaging the students to play. They will be speaking and interacting as the tiles come with words and pictures.

food unit domino

Food Unit Sentence association cards are great as a visual aid for many learners. They will associate a sentence to any picture on the cards. Students will use the visual context to relate to the sentences on the cards. This is an enjoyable and motivating extra activity.

Sentence association cards food unit

Further practice as a spelling activity using the cheese letter tiles to write the food words. Students will touch the cards enhancing retention of the new vocabulary.


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jueves, 11 de enero de 2024

Pets Unit Games for Elementary ELL

 This resource is included in the Pets Unit for Elementary ELL -Starters. 

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-10780015


The games will boost your students’ confidence in their English language skills. They will participate with knowledge of the language and take risks at playing with their peers. Games provide a place to motivate speaking expanding your students' linguistic competence.

The pet unit board game can be adapted for the different levels of English that you have in class. Make your own rules for the game or even better have the students make new ones to make it more challenging for the more proficient students.

Print the board, cut and glue to assemble one bigger game. Glue the tips of the game board markers. There are four, so this is a game for mainly 4 students. The pet shop template is for students to place the cards they get when playing. The winner is the one with the most pets in their shops. Students can play by just recognizing the pet they land on and get the corresponding card to place in their shop. As they get more advanced, make more difficult gramma sentences, such as: I want an orange cat for my pet shop.

pet unit board game

Playing this picture and word domino is great to use as a social interaction activity to promote socialization between your students.  It will be a matching picture and then word and so on. If you need bigger tiles let me know. I made them small in order for students to take them even outdoors or to play on their own.

Jumbled sentences games will reinforce the students with the correct understanding of the order of words in a sentence. This works towards proper grammar and syntax rules. Students’ ca moves the cards to make larger sentences or just make phrases. They can even write them down on their notebooks afterwards.

The sentence association game is great for language production as the students have to read the sentences and find the corresponding picture. They might find two pictures for one sentence and use their ability to pick the correct one. As your teaching context is unique, adapt this game as a reading activity or a listening/speaking one in which one student reads the sentence and the others find the corresponding card with the picture.

There is a set of small cards with pictures and words. It will help students memorize the new vocabulary. Use them for writing activities if you wish.

Include spelling activities for vocabulary development. This kind of activities helps into learning and remembering the new words.


 I used play Spelling Bingo a lot with my students. They really loved it. Just hand in a spelling bingo pet template to each student or group of students, so they know that these are spelling words playing. They will write five pet words on the template.

Call the words using the cards from any of the games above.


Made a guess what? Instead of a guess who? game. Give each pair of students a template with all the pets. I would suggest that you place them on a clear plastic sheet for them to write on the card and then erase easily for future use.

The students will ask each other questions bout the animal that one student selected for the other to guess: Is it green? Does it have big eyes? Is it a frog?

Check my blog for Kindergarten English Language Learners and find more resources on this unit. CLICK: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/05/pets-unit-flashcards-for-kindergarten.html

lunes, 1 de enero de 2024

Pets Unit Flashcards for Elementary ELL

his resource is part of the pets unit for Elementary English Languge learners-Starters.    LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-10780015


Pets Unit Flashcards

Take a look of all the flashcards included in the resource to create an effective lesson plan. Use these to develop linguistic competence to have your students communicate verbally to describe pets.

Use the flashcards to introduce the pets vocabulary and have the stduents understand the names of the animals.

Use the pets unit flashcards to ask yes/ no questions: Is this a dog?
Students: Yes, it is!
Is this a frog?
Students: No, it isn’t.
Use the flashcards to ask about colors: What color is this cat?
Students: It’s orange! (make a color splotch next to the cat)
Have students make sentences: This cat is white.

Pets Unit Flashcards

Let’s count the pets on the board: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight pets!!
Ask more questions: What’s number three?
Students: it’s a rabbit!

Make a grid on the board. Say a number and letter combination for a student and have that person say what it is.
Teacher: 2C
Student: snake!

Use adjectives to help students describe the pets. Here is an example with a cat labeling to the parts of the body.

labeling to the parts of the body.

Students will talk about possession: Who has a rabbit?
Students: Ann!
Model sentences to express possession: Bob has a fish.

Students will contrast and compare the physical appearance of the pets. Review the parts of body words if you have already taught that unit. You can choose the ears. Model sentences: The brown rabbit has long ears.

By using adjectives, students will express themselves wih more detail.the physical appearance of the pets flashcards

Contrast the length of the tail. Ask questions: Which pets have short tails?
Students: rabbit, dog, fish, hamster.

Use the flashcards to introduce or review even more body parts: wings, legs, head, body, eyes, whiskers, nose, mouth.
Ask questions: Which animal has wings?
Students: birds!

body parts pets flashcards

Introduce how to indicate position using the prepositions of place: in, on.

Place the fish and the fish bowl flashcards on the board. Write the word IN. mimic that the fish goes into the fish bowl, draw the arrow and say the sentence: The fish is IN the fish bowl.

Have the students say a sentence with the dog: The dog is in the dog house.

Do the same with the location word on. Ask questions: Where is the dog?
Students: It’s on the dog bed.

Students will express preference using the adjective favorite.Place the flashcards on the board and ask: What’s your favorite pet? Graph!

What’s your favorite pet? Graph!

Students can use their worksheet to graph the results from the class and write it down.

Play a guessing game with your students. Hold a pet flashcard without showing it to your students. Describe it: This pet doesn’t have wings. It doesn’t have whiskers.  It has four legs. It has a tail.

Students will start guessing. The one that guesses correctly: dog! Will win the card. Continue with more cards.

Play a guessing game pets unit

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