Turkey Family for Thanksgiving Teaching -Elementary ELLs

 This resource is included in The Family Unit for Elementary ELLs. Link To the resource:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Family-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-1804475

This Turkey Family resource is perfect for engaging elementary English language learners with family vocabulary. It introduces students to Thanksgiving themes, building cultural awareness.

The turkey family can be used to review the family-related words, helping students practice terms like “mother,” “father,” “brother,” and “sister” in a fun, memorable way using the printable flashcards.

Teachers can create interactive activities around the turkeys, like naming family members, describing them, or using simple sentences, boosting speaking confidence by creating small cards on the templates provided.

The Turkey Family worksheets in the resource offer a great way to support both vocabulary building and holiday-themed learning. There are color words and then bind together and create a book.

By engaging with written tasks, students build reading comprehension and writing skills, which are crucial for language development. There are: color by number, complete the family words, answer the yes/no questions.

Games provide a playful way for students to repeatedly use family-related vocabulary in context. As students play, they need to speak and listen to each other, promoting language production as they move along the board: It’s a blue feather. If the students say the correct word, that feather card is available for that player to take.

The goal is that players get as many feathers. They will color the feathers on their worksheet if they have the cards. They will continue playing until they get as many cards possible. The winner is the one with the most feathers to color.

They will complete their turkey on their worksheet, either mother, father, brother, sister or baby, just one. They will make a craft with their turkey member by adding the feathers and the person. Make a display in class.

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Halloween and the School Unit for Elementary ELLs

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By incorporating Halloween activities, teachers provide ELLs with an opportunity to experience and understand a key aspect of the culture.

Blend essential classroom language with the fun of Halloween using the school things flashcards. Students will associate common school supplies (e.g., pencil,) with the Halloween theme helping retain vocabulary through visual context. Always use pointers for asking questions.

The Halloween theme reinforces additional seasonal vocabulary, such as "vampire," while teaching necessary school-related terms using the small cards. Ask questions: What character is shown on the scissors?

Students: Vampire!

I made this pointer to read words. I bought this cutout at Dollar tree years ago, but grab the idea to make your own.

The worksheets with a Halloween theme add excitement to the lessons. Have the students complete the worksheets while learning school supplies vocabulary in a festive context.

Engaging ELLs in games around Halloween helps to maintain their interest and participation in language learning. This domino game involves all the school supplies words and images to match.

Halloween-themed school supplies games provide a dynamic way to teach vocabulary to English language learners (ELLs). Students love BINGO! Play this game by having the students color the school items in any of the four colors playing: green, orange, purple, black, and glue only 6 of them onto their board.

Use your calling cards to start the game: an orange book! The student that color the book orange can cross out the block. Keep in mind that you can play this game at any other time using the same board that they have created. It is useful for those final 5 or 10 minutes to wrap up a class.

Leaving for last this flap book printable. This is a creative writing activity. Students will color the Frankenstein on each flap and write a text.

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Fruit and Veggies Worksheets for Elementary ELLs.

 This resource is included in The Fruit and Vegetables level 1 for Elementary ELLS.LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

The worksheets focus on—fruits and vegetables—that students will encounter in real-life situations, helping them communicate more effectively in English. These worksheets use engaging activities that cater to visual learners. By including activities like matching, sorting, and labeling, the worksheets offer a hands-on, multisensory approach.

Whether students are just starting or need more challenging tasks, these worksheets can be adapted for different levels. Choose the ones you need for your students.

Teachers can provide additional vocabulary using any of the worksheets.

Teachers can create cross-curricular lessons that connect language learning with math topics.

Print these worksheets for use in class or send them as homework.

Revisit the face and body vocabulary in the context of the fruit and vegetable unit, giving students the chance to reinforce their understanding of previously learned words.

Use your Fruit and Vegetables worksheets to integrate grammar instruction with vocabulary practice, helping ELLs develop both their vocabulary and grammatical competence in a fun, meaningful context.

Teachers can use the worksheets to spark conversations as listening exercises about food, promoting interaction and oral language development. This is a questionnaire worksheet. There is a set of even more, check them out: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Questionnaire-Worksheets-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-11315049

Build confidence and autonomy in their language learning as they can work on their own.

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Halloween and the Haunted House Prepositions

 This resource is included in the House Unit for Elementary-Starters at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

Print and use this spooky theme of a haunted house and ghost to capture your students' attention. The resource provides a clear visual to grasp prepositions (in, on, under, behind, in front of and "next to") through fun and interactive activities. The resource caters to different learning styles (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic).

Each flashcard portraits a specific preposition with a ghost in relation to a haunted house or objects (e.g., "The ghost is on the Haunted House").

The activity promotes spatial understanding by helping students visualize and use prepositions in meaningful contexts, which is critical for language development. Use the colored or b/w version of the ghost and house cutout for the students to recreate each preposition: The ghost is in front of the house.

Use the flashcards as a writing activity.

Use the ghost cutout and play Ghost Hunt (Hide and Seek with Prepositions). Hide the ghost cutout around the classroom (e.g., under desks, on the bookshelf, next to the door). Have students search for the ghost and describe its location using prepositions ("The ghost is under the chair").

 

The small cards can be used in different interactive activities. One of them is the Memory Game where students match the cards, challenging students to find pairs that match the correct preposition to the image.

Add the worksheet to the lesson plan. Find Labeling Prepositions: Students will have to choose the correct preposition (e.g., in, on, under, next to, behind, in front of), Fill-in-the-Blanks with Visual Clues, write different questions to each picture.

By moving the ghost around the haunted house and using prepositions to describe its location, students actively practice their language skills. Fun to glue and create a Haunted house poster with all the ghosts in their location.

Print the Preposition Dice to play several games. Students roll the dice and then place or move a ghost cutout to play in the location of the Haunted house cutout. This game provides hands-on interaction with prepositions.

Haunted House Board Game. Print the board game with a haunted house theme. Students move their Halloween character game pieces around a board, landing on locations in the haunted house. Each space has a sentence to say or a space to move: The ghost is on the Haunted House.

Matching Card Game. Prepare the mat with pictures of a haunted house and ghost in different locations. Students take turns drawing cards with the preposition words and place where it belongs. There is also a sentence set to play a puzzle game.

Hope you will love this Game. I used to make different versions for my students in my teaching days. Print a card per team. There are 4. Have the cards and house ready for each team.

When you say, "Go!" the students must read the sentences and place the cards in the corresponding place to complete the task. The first group who puts the proper things in the correct location gets a point for their team.

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Fruit and Veggies Small Cards for Elementary ELLs.

  This resource is included in The Fruit and Vegetables level 1 for Elementary ELLS.LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

The fruit and vegetable small cards are easy to carry and store, making them convenient on-the-go teaching. You might have seen on the blog that these cards can be used for a wide range of activities such as, group work, pair work, individual practice.

Small cards encourage interactive learning. Play Guess the Card:

One student picks a card without pointing at it, and describes the fruit or vegetable for the players to guess.

Players: Is it yellow?

Student: NO!

Players: Is it a fruit or vegetable?

Student: a vegetable.

Players: Is it green?

Student: No!

Players: Is it a carrot?

Student: Yes, it is!

Small cards can be used for different skill levels by adjusting the activities. Students can just write the word for beginners or write more complex sentence building for advanced students). 

Small cards allow students to practice independently by writing the words on a small board.

Play Circle the other words within a fruit and vegetable word. There are several. Students write the word on the card and then find the other word such as this example: pear, there is the word ear.

Give each student a "bingo" board with spaces to write any of the fruit and vegetables. The teacher calls out the fruit and vegetables using the small cards, and students crosses out the words they hear.

Matching Pairs with Flashcards. Use the small cards and larger flashcards together. Students match the small cards to the corresponding large flashcards as quickly as possible.

 Students categorize the small cards into "fruits" and "vegetables". This can be done in pairs or groups as a race.

Use the small cards in sentence-building activities. For example, "I like bananas,". Here is the video:

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