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martes, 29 de septiembre de 2026

Halloween Furniture Vocabulary and Activities for Elementary ELLs

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Bring some spooky fun to your classroom with these Halloween Furniture Flashcards! This engaging resource helps young English language learners practice furniture vocabulary through colorful Halloween-themed illustrations.


practicing There is/There are sentences

Point to a room in the Halloween house flashcards and have students call out any furniture they can see. Then, place the matching flashcard next to the house with an arrow pointing to the item and encourage students to make a sentence such as: “There is a green fireplace.”


use of There is/There are and prepositions of place

Students use basic sentences to describe the location of different pieces of furniture in the Halloween house. They look at the room flashcards, identify the furniture, and make sentences such as “There is a purple table in the dining room.” or “There is a chandelier between the pictures.”


use of There is/There are and prepositions of place

Students use basic sentences to describe the location of different pieces of furniture in the Halloween house. They look at the room flashcards, identify the furniture, and make sentences such as “There is a purple table in the dining room.” or “There is a chandelier between the pictures.”

hands-on sorting activity

Draw color splotches at the top of the board and create columns with lines underneath each color. Students take turns placing the Halloween furniture flashcards in the correct column according to their color.

This helps students develop categorization skills.

practice prepositions of place

Hold up a flashcard and ask questions such as “Who is he?” and “Where is Frankenstein?” to encourage students to identify the character and describe the location.

practice prepositions of place

Use the Halloween furniture flashcards together with the included Halloween cutouts. The teacher gives instructions such as “Put the bat on the closet,” “Put the spider under the lamp,” or “Put the skeleton behind the cauldron,” and students come to the board to place the cutouts in the correct position.


Mystery Furniture

Place the Halloween furniture flashcards on a grid on the board. Give students clues about one of the furniture items without saying its name. For example: It is green.  It is in the living room.  You put books in it.

Students listen carefully, identify the correct furniture flashcard, and answer using the grid location and vocabulary:

“It is the bookshelf! A3.”

 


This resource is part of the House Furniture for Elementary ESL, at my store:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/House-Furniture-unit-for-Elementary-ESL-3420723



Find more ideas and resources at my Pinterest Board.

https://www.pinterest.com/ei98srl/esl-house-unit/teaching-house-unit/


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domingo, 27 de septiembre de 2026

Science of Reading Activities for the Going to Future Plans Unit

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The Science of Reading highlights the importance of providing students with opportunities to connect spoken language, vocabulary, decoding, fluency, and comprehension.

This Going to Future Plans resource includes a one-page reading passage designed especially for young English Language Learners. The reading provides meaningful exposure to the target grammar and vocabulary while supporting comprehension, sentence recognition, and fluency development.

 Comic Strip Echo Reading

Project and/or hand out the printable comic-style reading passage and read the first speech bubble or panel aloud. Students follow with their fingers and repeat the sentence as a group, copying your expression and intonation.

Then, continue one panel at a time. Stop after each panel and ask simple comprehension questions.


 

Word Sort: Verbs, Nouns, and Days of the Week

Students read the words from the reading passage and sort them into three categories: verbs, nouns, and days of the week. This activity helps students identify different types of words. The teacher will collect the answers on the boards for self- correction.


False Statements Writing Activity

Students reread the passage and write new sentences using the future with going to. They must create false statements by changing details from the story, such as the noun, place, day, food, activity, person, or time of the day. Since students can choose different details to change, answers will vary, encouraging creativity.

 

Students transfer reading to writing

 The students rewrite the comic-style story in the third person using he. As they read each sentence, they change phrases such as I am going to into He is going to and rewrite the information from Ben’s weekend plans. This activity helps students practice reading comprehension, sentence structure, pronouns, and the future tense with going to while making connections between reading and writing.


 

Students become language detectives

 They search for the repeated pattern I am going to + verb throughout the reading passage. They circle the words going to and underline the action verbs, such as play, eat, ride, visit, and read, helping them recognize how the future tense with going to is formed. This simple Science of Reading activity encourages students to notice language patterns.



Fluency Practice

Students read the passage three times and draw a star after each reading to track their progress. This simple Science of Reading activity encourages repeated exposure to high-frequency language structures.

 

These printable activities make it easy to incorporate Science of Reading principles into your ESL classroom while reinforcing the future tense.

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viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2026

Future plans Printable Games: Going to with Weekend Plans

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These printable ESL games help students practice the going to future tense. Through hands-on activities such as dominoes, board games, spinners, matching games, and sentence-building challenges, learners develop confidence using future plans vocabulary.

Using games in the ESL classroom increases participation, encourages communication, and creates a low-stress environment for language practice. Perfect for elementary English language learners, EFL students, and ESL classrooms.

Future to be going to Board game

Roll the die and move your marker around the board. When you land on a space, look at the picture and make a sentence with going to. Use an affirmative sentence for red spaces, a negative sentence for green spaces, and a question for yellow spaces. The first player to reach the finish wins!

 

Sentence Builder Game

Students use the word cards to create their own future plans sentences with going to. They can make any sentence they want, or use ideas from the small cards or the board game to inspire their answers. This open-ended activity encourages creativity, speaking practice, and correct sentence formation while reviewing future plans vocabulary.


Future Plans Spinner Game

Students spin the printable spinner and look at the color where it lands. Then, they think about their own weekend plans and make a sentence using going to.

·         Red = Make an affirmative sentence.

·         Green = Make a negative sentence.

·         Yellow = Ask a question.

For example, students can talk about activities they are really going to do this weekend, such as playing soccer, visiting family, riding a bike, or watching a movie.



Future Plans Dominoes


Traditional Dominoes

Students match the picture dominoes and phrase dominoes to build a domino chain. Each time they place a domino, they make a sentence using going to about their own weekend plans, such as “I’m going to go hiking this weekend.” The first player to use all of their dominoes wins the game.



Domino Race

Spread dominoes face up.

Teacher says: "I am going to go shopping."

Students race to find the matching domino picture or written verbs and show it.

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jueves, 24 de septiembre de 2026

Halloween Activities for Elementary English Language Learners: ESL Halloween Bundle

 Grab the Halloween Elementary Bundle here:

Halloween BUNDLE for Elementary English Language Learners

This bundle helps you bring seasonal fun into your classroom without losing instructional time.

Halloween-themed activities help students connect familiar vocabulary and language structures to a fun, engaging seasonal context. By revisiting previously learned concepts through Halloween resources, students strengthen their understanding while building confidence in using English in meaningful ways.

One of the biggest advantages of this bundle is that teachers can continue teaching their curriculum while adding seasonal excitement.

What's Included in the Bundle?

Multiple Halloween-Themed Resources

Ready-to-Print ESL Materials that Easily integrate Halloween into your existing lesson plans.

Multiple curriculum areas covered in this growing bundle.

Printable Flashcards with strong visual support for vocabulary presentation.

 

Small cards for writing practice, games and centers.


Worksheets for independent practice

Board games for Structured speaking opportunities

Classroom displays and decorations

Matching activities

Vocabulary recycling for review activities

Interactive partner work

These materials support whole-group lessons, centers, small groups, intervention, and homework activities

This bundle was created specifically for ESL, EFL, and ELL students. Use the bundle for Whole-class lessons, Learning centers, Early finishers, Small-group instruction, ESL pull-out classes, Homework.

 


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