Rooms of the house Printable Book

 This ESOL K-5 resource (Rooms of the House Printable Book ESL Reading Activity for Elementary ELLs)  is included in the House Unit available here: 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

I always add printable books to each unit to use with Elementary English language Learners.  Reading is a linguistic competence.All the books were tailored to meet the age and language level of the students. Another competence to include into your lesson plan is the linguistic as in reading short texts.

This Rooms of the House printable book is part of a complete House Unit designed for elementary English language learners. Printable books provide meaningful opportunities to integrate reading, speaking, and vocabulary practice while reinforcing the concepts introduced with flashcards, small cards, worksheets, and games.

The House book has nice illustrations and with simple sentences to foster a positive attitude towards reading in the new language. 

Book Assembly Activity

The first illustration is a house shape that students will color in any way they wish, and cut it to create the book.

Have the students read the sentences and color each room of the house, besides gluing the family member in each one. 

Short predictable texts help emerging readers focus on meaning while building confidence and fluency in the new language.

As a teacher you can adapt the content, by having students add more sentences to each page.

 

Take a look of the book inside, already assembled:

Differentiated Book Option

There is another book to allow more customization based on their language proficiency. Students can add pictures of their family members or even draw them. Adapt the book to suit the needs of your learners and lead to a more personalize experience. The book template is aimed to reinforce the vocabulary in the house context.

learning objective for this book activity

Students will be able to:

✔ Read simple predictable sentences

✔ Identify rooms of the house in context
✔ Follow instructions to color and assemble a book
✔ Describe family members in rooms
✔ Personalize language through drawing and writing

Printable books create authentic reading experiences where students interact with text, visuals, and hands-on materials simultaneously, promoting comprehension and engagement.

Children love learning with interaction with materials. Print your books and let me know how your students liked them.

Printable games for the rooms of the house provide contextualized practice that allows students to apply vocabulary and grammar in communicative situations, increasing comprehension and retention. Go to the blog post: 

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Rooms of the house Printable Games

  This TESOL and ELL resource(Rooms of the House Printable Games ESL Activities for Elementary ELLs (Speaking + Vocabulary Practice)  is included in the House Unit available here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

These Rooms of the House printable games are part of a complete House Unit designed for elementary English language learners. In this post, you will find engaging game ideas that create meaningful contexts for language use, helping students apply vocabulary, grammar, and sentence patterns introduced in previous lessons. These activities are ideal for centers, small groups, and whole-class review.

House Unit Sentence association game. 

Students will associate each picture card to the corresponding sentence. The learners will develop a better understanding of the context of the people in the house.This game can be played in small groups to promote interpersonal and collaborative skills.

Descriptive Sentence Association Cards Activity

Students will display the picture cards and the sentences on both sides of a desk or floor. Then, they start connecting all the cards to their corresponding sentence as they will develop a better understanding of the people in the rooms of the house. The result comes with a better comprehension and improvement of the overall language skills.

Visual Writing with picture cards. 

Give the students the cards and have them write sentences for each one. They will write about what they see. Ask them questions about the picture to stimulate writing and their imagination. The colorful pictures are age -appropriate and relevant to the vocabulary plus grammar for the house unit. There is a clear representation of the family members and children in different rooms of the house.

Students can play matching the text that the classmates wrote to the pictures. And check  all 40 cards available: 

Descriptive sentences cards. 

These cards are great to practice writing clear and effective sentences that will enhance their communication skill. Display all the cards to aid students into writing a sentence. There are also blank cards to write any other word. Then, students will write their sentences and draw.

Rooms of the house Domino. 

The game will expose the students to the vocabulary as they match the pictures of a room scene, helping to expand the language learned.

Board games involve the use of spaces with pictures. 

Students will say a sentence or phrase in order to move in the board to make it even more meaningful: Brother is in the bathroom.

Pocket charts for the house unit. 

This works well for your visual learners. They are useful for organizing the sentences in a clear and structured manner. Students can then write the sentences on their notebooks.

Bingo to review the parts of the house: chimney, roof, door and window.

 Students choose one house, 1,2 or 3. Display the colors that are playing the game meaning that they can only color each part in those colors. Have the calling cards available.

 Start reading any house card and have the students mark if they it in their house: This house is number 1. It is a yellow house.  It has a green chimney, a blue roof, a pink window and an orange door.

In this case the student can mark the blue roof. They keep on marking their house. The student that marks all the parts or most of the them first, wins the game.

Be an effective planner and mange your class with fun resources. These games work especially well in literacy centers, allowing students to revisit vocabulary through interaction, discussion, and repeated exposure.

Print yours now!

Worksheets offer guided visual practice of the rooms of the house. Go to this blog post: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/11/rooms-of-house-worksheets-this-resource.html

I do have a Pinterest Board for the House unit, go check it for even more ideas: https://www.pinterest.com/ei98srl/esl-house-unit/teaching-house-unit/

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Rooms of the House Worksheets for Elementary ESOL

  This TESOL Teaching resource (Rooms of the House Worksheets ESL Activities for Elementary ELLs (Printables + Lesson Ideas) is included in the House Unit available here:  https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

     

These Rooms of the House worksheets are part of a complete House Unit for elementary English language learners. In this post, you will find practical ways to use the worksheets to reinforce vocabulary, develop speaking skills, and create meaningful hands-on activities that extend learning from the flashcards and small cards presented in earlier posts.

Take a look of all the worksheets included in the resource to practice the functional language to identify the parts of the parts and the location of the family members:

Vocabulary Coloring Activities to develop the critical thinking skill 

Students will match each sentence to each picture of a room. Then, dictate the color of each room: The living room is yellow. A worksheet to help identify the rooms in a house. Dictating colors helps integrate listening practice.

Do some writing using the worksheet. Students can write simple sentences or questions.

Cut and Paste Room Placement Activities

There is another worksheet with the family members and a text that says where to place each person, as a cut and paste worksheet. Practice the skill of inference and the use of prepositions to describe location.

Family Members in the House Worksheet

Cut and paste rooms of the house worksheet 

Some students can work independently on the worksheets, encouraging self-reliance. It is an easy cut and paste the rooms of the house. Dictate the color of each room: Color the bathroom pink!

When handing out worksheets keep in mind the variety of formats, such as a fill in the word or trace the word to prevent monotony in the classroom. Some worksheets can be done alone with almost any help  to foster learner autonomy.

There is a set of more worksheets to use as a form of assessment to gauge students’ understanding and progress in grammar.

The Color the house worksheets can be assigned as homework. It will give student a way to continue practicing what they learned in class.

 favorite room of the house worksheet 

Invite the students to draw and color their favorite room of the house  and then share their creation talking about their room. Also tell the stdudents to draw or glue a picture of themselves in the room. They can also write a caption stating where they are: I am in the bedroom.

The favorite room of the house can be graphed, but add the variant of the color. Tell your students to color the room of their choice. You will count the favorite room and the color as well.

Perfect unit to graph. 

Have the students stand up with their worksheets ready. Prepare a bar chart on the board with the numbers 1 to 6 maybe. Students will come and say: There are four members in my family and stick it under number four. At the end, count how many families are in each number and discuss the results.

Questionnaire worksheet.

They are interactive and encourage active participation.

Include the worksheets to carfeully plan your lesson and use them as an assessment tool.

Rooms of the House Small Cards ESL Activities for Elementary ELLs (Speaking + Centers). Go to this blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/10/rooms-of-house-small-cards-for.html 

 

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Rooms of the house small cards for Elementary EFL

                This TESOL resource(Rooms of the House Small Cards ESL Activities for Elementary ELLs (Speaking + Centers)  is included in the House Unit available here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

These Rooms of the House small cards are part of a complete House Unit designed for elementary English language learners. In this post, you will find practical ways to use small cards for speaking practice, vocabulary review, centers, and interactive activities that extend the flashcards lesson from the first Part.

Vocabulary Spelling Review Activities

Print your set of small cards and do a little spelling as your students will use them as a reference to write them down on any surface that you have available. I used these writing erasable strips and whiteboard markers. Suitable to practice the vocabulary of the parts of the house.

My example is just writing words, but students can write complete sentences.

Small cards can be used for repetition and review.

Using a white crayon, a group of students will write the rooms of the house words on a white cardboard in random order.  They will give that cardboard to another group, who will use finder paints to color over the words to discover the words. Then, they will match the small cards to each word.

Make a house using the small cards and cardboard to use in class.

These cards will aid in comprehension and memory retention. These small cards provide a flexible tool for repeated vocabulary exposure in low-stress speaking situations.

 

 speaking practice

Students will actively engage with the material as you ask questions with Where?

Have the students place the family members where you say: Mother is in the bedroom!
Or ask questions: Where is mother?
Students: She is in the kitchen!
Is brother in the garden or the bathroom?
Students: in the garden!

Sentence building writing activity

Tailor the learning experience to your student’s needs.

Have your students place all the family members where they want and then they should write a text.

Rooms of the House ESL Activities for Elementary ELLs (Flashcards + Speaking Ideas), all in the same resource.Go to this blog post:    https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/10/rooms-of-house-for-elementary-english.html 

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Rooms of the house for Elementary English Teachers

 This resource (Rooms of the House ESL Activities for Elementary ELLs (Flashcards + Speaking Ideas) is included in the House Unit available here: 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

Useful for the English as a Second Language Specialist.

Using this resource with your students they will be able to understand and produce in an oral form the parts of the house using the simple present (grammar). They will learn to ask questions and use the preposition of place with the family members.

This Rooms of the House resource is part of a complete House Unit designed for elementary English language learners. In this first post of the series, you will find practical classroom ideas to introduce house vocabulary, practice speaking, and begin using prepositions of place with family members. These activities are ideal for ESL/EFL classrooms, newcomers, and early elementary learners.

Introduce Rooms of the House Vocabulary

Place the house flashcard in the middle of the board. Teach the new word of the unit creating a mind map.

Start adding the rooms of the house for your students to repeat.

Teacher: This is the bathroom!

Students: bathroom!

Students can look, point to each room of the house and say each word: bedroom!

Talk about the color of the rooms. Teacher: What color is the bathroom?

Students: blue!

Teacher: What color is the bathroom in your house?

Students: It’s gray!

Favorite Room Survey Activity

By now, the students should be able to identify and name the parts of the house. They can say which one is their favorite room in the house.

Teacher: What’s your favorite room in the house?

Student 1: The bathroom.

Tally the answers and draw conclusions of the results with your class.

Teacher: What was the favorite room in the house?

Student 1: the dining room.

Family Members in the House (Prepositions Practice)

Make connections with prior knowledge.The Family Members are in the house.Use gestures when modeling prepositions.

 Students will be able to state where the family members are. It is a good moment to revise the family members vocabulary. Make an emphasis to the phrase in the (room)
Stick the flashcards on the board and an arrow to a room and say a sentence: Mother is in the bathroom.
Elicit who they see and where they are. Review the pronouns he and she.
Ask questions: Where is father?
Students: He is in the living room.

Listening Placement Activity

Place only the rooms of the house flashcards on the board and hand in a family member to seven students. They have to listen to your sentences to where they to put them.Encourage full sentence responses.

Teacher: Father is in the living room.

Then, ask questions: Where is grandpa?

Students: He’s in the kitchen.

Teacher: Is grandma in the bathroom?

Students: yes, she is.

Teacher: Is the baby in the garden?

Students: No, he isn’t.

Guessing Game for Speaking Practice

Review the key language by Playing this guessing game.  Place a family member with an arrow that goes to a room of a house, but cover the flashcard of the family member or put in backwards. Have students ask yes/no questions: Is mother in the garden?

Teacher: NO! Guess again!

Students: Is sister in the garden?

Teacher: yes!! Uncover the family member.

Continue with more.

Classroom Movement Activity

Display the rooms of the house flashcards in different parts of the classroom. Select 6 students to go to one of the them: Pedro, go to the kitchen!

When all the students are at a room ask questions: Lily, where are you?
Lily: I am in the living room.

Talk about your house. Present there is and there are for this activity. Try to create a house map and place several bedrooms and bathrooms. Teacher: There are 3 bedrooms and two bathrooms in the house. There is a living room, a dining room and a kitchen.
Ask negative questions: Are there four kitchens?
Students: NO! There aren’t four kitchens. There is one.
Have several students come and place the flashcards to represent their home.

There Is / There Are House Description

I have checked several text books and I haven’t seen the parts of the house in the scope and sequence. But I will include the flashcards in the resource. Just make a simple mind map to introduce the new words: roof, door, chimney, window using the  flashcards.

Parts of the House Extension Activities

The sorting activities with house parts provide an excellent extension to vocabulary learning by encouraging categorization, observation, and descriptive language.

There is a set of several houses with different colors and with roofs, chimneys, doors and windows in different color condition. Have your students do sorting on the board or on the table the different parts of the house. Students can sort by color the chimney.

It can also be the doors.

Try with the Windows.

Hope you print your flashcards and provide your students with games and activities for practising the new vocabulary.

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