Colors Unit for Elementary English Language Learners

 Colors Unit for Elementary English Language Learners

This English teacher resource is for teaching starters or Elementary English Language Learners. It comes with flashcards, small cards, worksheets, games and a flap book with a focus on promoting communicate language. This is the unit for the students to identify all the 11 basic colors that would be used along all the book series that you choose.

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Color or colour? Well, that’s up to you. I included grey, just in case. Start introducing the colors vocabulary.Then have the students identify and name colors.

Colors Unit Downloadable Flashcards

Give your students exposure and fun practice with the Monster Colors flashcards.Ask your students if they know any color word in English. Show the flashcards and see how many colors they can name.

Ask Yes/ No questions using the colors flashcards. Have students nod their heads when they answer with yes and shake their heads when they answer with no.  Teacher: Is it blue?

Students: Yes, it is. /No, it isn’t.

Use the worksheet to practice the structures.

Practice asking and answering questions. Attach the color flashcards to the board. Draw a grid around them. Point to each flashcard and have the students say the color word. Say a number and letter combination and have the students guess which color it is.
Teacher: B2
Students: black!

Color Unit Small Cards.

Easy to print and handy to have for multiple games. Here is one. Just cut the word from the picture and have the students match them.

Students can show each other a small card and ask questions to describe the color: What color is it?

Colors Unit Worksheets

Worksheets can be printed for extra practice on any grammar or vocabulary that your students need to work on.

Have the children listen and point to the color word you say. They should repeat the color word.

This is a read and color set of worksheets that cater to the need of your specific students. Have the students read the color listing aloud when they are done.

Use the worksheet as a cut and play kind of worksheet. Students will cut all the strips and place on their desk. Say: Show me orange! They will find that strip of paper and show it to you as they repeat the word.

Write the correct vowel letter worksheet and color. Check the spelling.

Do a listening, color and write the word kind of worksheet. It’s a multiple skill activity.

A worksheet to associate words with colors to help reinforce the connection between the written word and its meaning. Students will write the vowel.

Practice patterns with this simple worksheet that you can do as a listening activity or as a show and tell patterns.

Colors Word Search Worksheet.

Coloring is an engaging activity for young children. Have fun with this coding worksheet.

A nice worksheet to color each word in the corresponding color.

Express preferences using the Favorite color worksheets.

Practice asking and answering questions about the favorite color. Display the color flashcards around the classroom. Have the students to run to their favorite color flashcard and stand next to it. Ask them: What’s your favorite color?

Students: It’s red!

Ask: What’s your favourite colour? and encourage different students to answer. Then, they can complete the worksheet. Use your color flashcards or small cards to name several colors and the students with that color mentioned  in their worksheets should stand up. Write the amount of students that stood up on board, so you can start a graph.

Give a twist to the graph for the favorite color. Place colored balloons at several parts of the classroom. After the students finish their favorite color worksheets. Have them find the balloon of their favorite color and stand right there. Tally the results.

There is the questionnaire worksheet. Use it for the students to walk around the classroom and ask questions and write the response. Place the worksheets into a plastic sheet device so you can use it several times. An activity that will promote peer interaction and communication.

Questionnaires are engaging, students have to walk around and ask the questions in English. After completing the survey, students can share their favorite colors with the class.

Here is a video with all the worksheets in this resource:

Colors Unit Games

Play a colors board game. Print as many as you need and set up the board game. Students should be able to understand and use the color vocabulary as they play.

Color Word Bingo

 Bingo is a vocabulary game with a focus on memorization and listening comprehension.

Use any of the color word worksheets to create 2 Bingo grids to use any time during any of your lesson. Students will cut and paste the colors splash and words randomly. As they play, they have to recognize the color words being called. You can be the caller or have any other students be it, using the color flashcards or small cards.

Unscramble the color words and match game. Just print, cut and have your students start putting together the color words.

Take a look!

Word Asssociation game. Use this set of cards for many games that you have your students play on their own with very little supervision.

-       Match the words to the color splotches

-       Memory

-     -  Match it up: hand in one card to each student in the class. At your signal, students walk around looking for their match. If they find someone with the matching card, they stand together and say: Match up!

 

                         

Color Unit Books

A flap book to wrap up this unit. Include this simple book in your lesson plan to build confidencein reading skills,

Print both pages for a student or a group of students.

Students will assemble the flap book by stapling the vertical side of the two pages and cutting the strips of the flap book. They have to read and color the splotches.

And a more classic Color Monster printable book.

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