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jueves, 6 de julio de 2017

Education.com

Days ago I was contacted by Education.com, and I was asked to publish one of their activities that could work well 
for EFL, ELA or ESL teachers.  I am so happy for this honor.

Here is a short description of their web page.
Education.com aims to empower parents, teachers, and homeschoolers to help their children build essential skills and excel. With over 12 million members, Education.com provides educators of all kinds with high-quality learning resources, including worksheets, lesson plans, digital games, an online guided learning platform, and more.
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Here is the Activity: Practice Reading with a Rainbow Puzzle!

 Puzzles are fun, and guess what? They're also a great way to help your child learn to read! Your kindergartener is probably already learning about sight words--short words that appear again and again in our language that children should recognize instantly. With this activity, you can easily turn sight words into beautiful rainbow puzzles for your emergent reader to reassemble. It's fun for your child, and you'll rest assured that she's getting some important practice in reading!


I couldn´t help  but to get inspired by this activity and off I went to buy some things to do it. Then, I started thinking that there is no official list of sight words for EFL students. I created one for this activity:
I, am, Let´s, Yes, No, a, an , What, is, this, It, not, here, color, and, can, we, be, you, are, can, in, on, under, the, where, who, she, he, my, there, they, like, so, much, How, many, your.

I bought lined/ruled cards so the students can write the word or you, glue it onto cardboard and have students outline the word with crayons or markers. Then cut it out and place it in a bag with the word written on it as a reference for the students. I used markers that are for writing onto plastic.

And bought some 3D stickers for the students to create the word, then do the outline with crayons or markers. Continue with the puzzle.


And with big craft sticks you can make a bigger puzzle. Students will write the word, outline in a rainbow manner on cardboard or white paper and then cut it. Glue onto the lined craft sticks and then wait to dry. Cut carefully with an exacto knife each craft stick.


Loved these foil letters that are for the bulletin board. You
 can give the students all the foil letters and a list of words 
to make on a cardboard. Then, have them glue the word, 
outline the word and create the puzzle.


There are so many options for just one activity at www.education.com.
Visit them !


sábado, 7 de febrero de 2015

Valentine´s Day Ideas for Elementary ELL



I created this game for my girls so they could match contractions. Get them for free, for a short period of time, there are more Valentine´s printables, including cards. Link:  


I have had this roll the dice game for years, I don´t know the author. Write me an email(ei98srl@gmail.com) and I can send the file. The file comes with the heart template that the students have to trace. Then, they play alone and start drawing as the dice directs  or play in pairs and see who is the first one to complete the Heart Person. 


 A nice book to make to review the structure  I love…..   www.graphicsfromthepond.com.au
          

And for Valentine´s Day vocabulary words, a trace activity:


The Teachers Pay Teachers Store has some great resources for free. Here are some of them. 

 Sight words are almost never included in any textbook.   These commonly used words should be  encouraged to memorize and automatically recognized. 
A fun crown for the structure I love….
  
A worksheet for teaching colors:

A cut and paste activity for verbs:

Never miss a Word Search.

Get more ideas  and free files for younger learners at my other blog: