Zoo animals Small Cards

 This resource is included in the Zoo Animals for EFL. Click here:

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Playing with the small cards will have the students master the sense of progress. They can add as many cards with the zoo animals as they wish. These small cards serve as a visual aid. Easy to associate the zoo animal word to the picture.

Print and cut the cards that you will need. There are more than 50 animals to choose from.

Capture your learners' interest and motivation with this simply easy game. Cut the word out of each small card and have the student match the picture to the word. It would be fun to do in small groups helping ELLs remember the new vocabulary.

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Sorting the zoo animals based on their characteristics. This exposure will build a more diverse and rich vocabulary use for your learners. The sorting will be into long/short legs, long/short arms, long/short tail, big/small ears,

Print the labels for the fries’ containers that you have previuusy gathered. Glue onto the containers and open them up for the activity.

Sorting activities are great for language practice, as students need to communicate their reasoning for why they sorted the zoo animals based on their physical characteristics.

 This promotes speaking and listening skills, as well as vocabulary usage when the students discuss where to put the small card. Here is an example of long tools and short tail.

 Students: The lion has a long tail. The rhino has a short tail.

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Sorting activities can be easily adapted to meet the diverse needs of ELLs in the classroom. Pair students accordingly to have a fun and smooth game.

Student1: The gibbon has long arms.
Student 2: the racoon has small arms.

Provide clear instructions and model the sorting processes.
Teacher: The rhino has short legs!
The flamingo has long legs.

Sort the zoo animals with ears into big and small.

Finally, give feedback to your students about their sorting choices.

Here’s the sorting into long or short tails.

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Food unit Small Cards for Elementary English Language Starters

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

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Promote active learning with the small cards, which are a smaller version from the bigger flashcards. With this teaching tools students will engage in different activities or games that you will plan to improve the retention of the new vocabulary from this unit. Just dropping several ideas to use them.

Print your small cards that perfect for paired work in class.

Set the conditions for learning by using this kind of activity. Sorting is still a valuable teaching tool that I bring from Kindergarten to the Primary and Elementary grades. Sorting the food into food and drinks will provide another way to practice the vocabulary. Have them explain why they put a card into any category. They can do this on the board or a table to reinforce the key langauge.

Students will use their ability to classify or categorize the food unit cards encouraging their critical thinking.

Personalizing/Personalising activities for your students makes it more relevant to them. They have the opportunity to connect what they are learning to their own experience, thought or likes, making the activity more engaging. Place all the small cards on a table for them to go pick the ones that they would plan a meal for themselves. They can take them to their desk, draw the items and write down the food in their meals. They can come up front and show their meal and have the students say if they liked it or not.

Inspire Communication with this activity. It is kinaesthetic option that involves some action. Hand in the picture food small cards to a group of students and the order ticket to the other half. The students with the small cards should be at their desks with the cards facing down. The students with the order tickets should stand up and walk around looking for the items to complete their order, asking questions: Do you have a hamburger? If the student has the card, they have to give it to the student.

The first student to complete the order ticket comes to the front and will take fist place. Students will stand in the corresponding order. Give specific feedback as you highlight the correct question that you hear: Pete, I heard you ask correct questions, very good!

Love this simple and interactive game.  Use it to help reinforce the new vocabulary for the food unit words. Print all the small cards from the unit and the templates for the tic tac toe, all X and O.

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Family unit Small Cards for the ESL

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Develop all the confidence needed to be a successful English Language learner. The small cards are helpful to identify family members and other people.

Use the family unit small cards to create an opportunity for your students to extend the vocabulary learned as they organized the cards alphabetically. You might have taught the letter names by now. If not, show them how to put the family words into alphabetical order and say them as they make a line with the cards.

Use the family unit small cards for personalisation of the new vocabulary. Have your students express their own opinion on the text as they describe their mother or any other significant people for them that you assign.

Teach your students to use adjectives to describe the family member when they write texts.

Do this color code spelling activity. Students will choose a color for the vowels and another one for the consonants. Have them write the words accordingly. Have them notice that there is a pattern in the ending of these words: father, mother, brother, grandmother and grandfather.

Students will have to start their thinking and categorizing skills to sort the family members cards by hair color.

Create families. Students will use their reasoning and their problem- solving skills as they classify and organize the people into families. Have them explain their grouping.

Use this tic tac toe game to review grammar points. This kind of games foster communication. Prepare your board game with the printables provided in the resource. It can also be played on the board. One team can be x or o. Place the family members small cards on the spaces on the game. The first team will choose a person on a square and make a correct sentence using the chosen family member. It can be This is Mother/ Mother has blonde hair/

If the sentence is correct, the team will place the X or O on that square and take away that family member. If the sentence is incorrect, the family member will still play on the board.

The first team to make three X or O in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row will be the winner team. 

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Face unit Small Cards for Elementary ELL

    This resource is included in the face unit for Elementary English Language Learners-Starters.Click here:    https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Face-Unit-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-10106986

 

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You can print the face unit small cards onto cardboard to play games and activities. Use them to consolidate new vocabulary. Students will be motivated to engage in the language to say hair and eye color.

Use the face unit cards for Sorting activities. Learners will sort the cards into categories/group. Have them explain their reasoning, for example, this sorting is by hair color. 

Students can sort the face unit cards by the hair length. Use the pictures in the cards to appeal to your students. Expand the theme focusing on the grammar and vocabulary learned.

Ask questions: Who has long blond hair?
Students: Amelia!

Reinforcing the adjectives is an essential part of grammar development.

Connect the hair texture to sort the cards: curly or straight?

Students can practice essential questions using the cards. Hand them in a dry erase board and colorful markers.

 They can write questions and them another student or group of students answer.

Students can also write short texts to each card.

Once students know how to play tic tac toe , they can do it alone in groups of two or more.

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Making the best choices for your Kindergarten English Language Students

                 As a teacher of Kindergarten English Language Learners you are up to make the decisions of how, what and more when planning the lesson for your students. I am sure that you are choosing nothing but the best. Here are a few reflections.

1. Expose students to language as muchas you can. Use books in English. If you can, starting a library for your classroom or academy would be great. Prices can escalate when the school is not in an English speaking country. I created a book for each unit just because of that. It's a book that they can make by themselves, take home and read with the parents and you shouldn't be too worried if it's going to get lost and more.  Videos are great. I had a collection of videos, such as Muzzy!, Disney and any other that I could buy. Now, you can find lovely videos on youtube to show in class and recommend to parents.

Here is an example of the family printable book.

2. Help students remember language facts. Experiment with sorting and matching activities.

Here is an example of a sorting activities with several gardn or nature flashards. Students can sort the trees abd flowers accoriding to their shapes. They will have to use the language fact of the adjective + noun phrase.

Students: a triangle tree!

3. The best way for students to communicate is through games and activities that focus on interaction between peers and you.

An easy one: the magic box! You can use it for almost anything and have the students guess what's inside.

or do the show and tell! I always include in all the resources a worksheet  for the students to draw, glue a picture of their favorite of their own item. It's wonderful for a short and tell or an exhibition in class.

4. Audit your best and not so good practices. Monitor and adjust. Check if your students were engaged with the material or activity. Did they like it? Were they bored? Can you do the activity in a different way? Just observe, take notes.

5. Lower the student’s anxiety. Make paper bag puppets, craft stick puppets to help students speak and make them feel more comfortable with the new language.

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