School Unit games and Flap book for Elementary English Language Learners

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Print the games and create a positive learning environment. Students enjoy playing games in a relaxed atmosphere.

This set of picture and word cards  will reinforce the meaning and meorization of the new words.

Use the cards to play spelling bingo. Hand in the template and have the students write any of the words from the cards. Then, start calling the words. The winner is the one that crosses off all the words.

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Use the word cards from the game to match the real object to each word.

Pocket charts are so versatile. They can be adapted to suit any individual or group learning needs.

Students can read all the phrases, take a look!

One more easy game is to prepare this file folder game to review colors.

Board games are very engaging and interactive for your students. You can adapt all the games to suit your players to encourage participation. Is this something that you include in your lesson plan? Maybe not? Would like to? 

Flap books are easy to use and can be part of the wrap up part of the lesson plan for the classroom objects.It will develop writing and reading from the very beginning.

 It's basically printing the templates. Students can cut and staple to assemble the flap book.

For writing in the blank spaces, depends on what you want to work on. It can be dictation of sentences, word writing and more. Try having students write their own sentences and do a show and read to other students. The possibilities are endless and pick one that suits your students' neeeds. 

There are three flap books to use with your students.

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School Unit Worksheets for Elementary English Language Learners

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School Unit Worksheets

Students will identify classroom objects during the practice part of the lesson plan. The worksheets bring in critical thinking tasks.

School Unit Writing Worksheets. Students should start with completing simple sentences and then reading the text for them to get confident in both skills and develop communicative competency. A review for expressing ownership using possessive adjective(my/your).

Play a game after the school objects worksheet is done. Have the students complete the pencil case with five items they want and write the phrases. They can get into groups of two or four. Student1 has to guess what the other student drew, asking questions: Is there a pencil? Student 2: NO!

Here's the backpack worksheet for the students to draw school items in it and label the drawings.

Picture dictionary for classroom objects. Use the worksheet to keep as a picture dictionary, either on a folder or on their notebook, a place that students can go to and check on vocabulary when needed.

Any of these worksheets can be used to create the Bingo grid to play at any given time that you decide.  Students will cut up all the word strip and glue onto the grids. Now, you have two Bingo games to play with.

This worksheet has several words for the students to draw the classroom object around the word. Have your students draw even more school objects on another piece of paper or a notebook. Have them show their creation to the class.

We might have students that need reinforcement on colors. Easy to do maybe at home, this crayon box worksheet with the colors that they should know at this point.

It is a good exercise to put things into Classroom Objects categories: colors and school objects. If it seems too crowded to complete, students can use a bigger sheet of paper or their notebook.

This is a reading worksheet. Then, students can cut it up and make a puzzle with the two worksheets that come with the same format.

Questions and answer worksheet. Tell students that they might have noticed that there are questions and answers in English. Here they have to match each one. Have them go through their book and find more questions and answers like the worksheet and make them write them down on their notebook.

A review of I am grammar structure: I am but with the school objects.

Writing worksheets. Draw school objects on the desk in different colors. Then, have the students write a short text of what is on the desk. With a partner, exchange and have the other person write what is on the desk from the peer.

A questionnaire is like conducting a survey, asking What’s your favorite school object? Students can then, draw the school object from the results. Perfect opportunity to practice expressing themselves in English.

Make a list of the school objects for the favorite items. They have to choose from the list and draw on the graphing worksheet. Do the graph as survey. Each student will stand up with the worksheet and say: My favorite worksheets is the pencil. Create a tally chart to record the number of votes for each school subject.

                                        

And always have some extra worksheets available for the fast finishers. 

                                    

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School Unit Flashcards for Elementary English Language Learners

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School Unit Flashcards

Students will Identify and name classroom items using the school unit flashcards.

Use the flashcards to teach the new words. Have your students talk about classroom objects. Develop fluency with interactions with the flashcards and the students. 

Have your students repeat after you show them the card. Tell them to find an object that is the same to the flashcard and show it to you as they name it.
Teacher: pencil!
Students: here! Pencil!

Introduce the target language and structure using the flashcards: What’s this? /It’s a __.
Hand in a flashcard to each student and have them ask using the  question words: What is this? to the class.

No statements. Say a wrong sentence on purpose when you show a flashcard. Students will say NO! and the right sentence. Teacher: It’s a book! Students: NO! It’ s a crayon.

Ask to be questions and get short answers.

Ask Is this a pencil? Yes, it is. (Have your students put their thumbs up)
No, it isn’t (students put their thumbs down)
There is this set of flashcards for you or your students to use for yes or no.

Mime. Tell your students to mime each school word.   Show a flashcard as students identify the classroom object and use the new classroom supplies heard.

Teacher: What is this?
Students: pencil! (mime writing with a real or imaginary pencil)
Use this set of flashcards to ask about colors.
Teacher: What color is the glue?
Students: blue!
Teacher: It’s blue glue.

Attach the school objects flashcards on the board and draw a grid around them. Drill all the words as you point to them. Name a letter number combination and the students will say the word.
Teacher: A2!
Students: sharpener!
Teacher: What color is the sharpener?
Students: orange.

Here is a set of pens in different colors to just review and drill: What color is the pen?

Have your students sort all the cards by color on the board or on a table. There is a flashcard in every color.

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You can do a very extensive sorting with the school items in each color.

Introduce his and her using these children flashcards holding a school item. Students should identify possession.Divide the board into his and her to place each flashcard.
Ask questions:
Teacher: What is this?
Students: It’s a ruler.
Teacher: Whose ruler is this?
Students: It’s Tom’s.
Teacher: It’s his ruler.
Continue with more examples.

There is a set of worksheets to review this grammar concept.

Whose? Show a flashcard and introduce: Whose pencil is this?
Students: It’s Zoe’s!

Extra Activity. Place several flashcards on the board and have the sudunts come up and label the school item that each child has.

There is a worksheet to complement the grammar structure.  Use the flashcards for the students to write more questions and answers using the worksheet as a model on their notebooks.

Another set of flashcards to use his or her/ Whose. Example: Who is this?
Students: Luke.
Teacher: What is this?
Students: a crayon.
Teacher: What color is the crayon?
Students: yellow.
Teacher: Oh! Luke’s crayon is yellow.
Teacher: Whose blue crayon is this?
Students: It’s Jo’s.
Teacher: Is Abby’s crayon pink?
Students: Yes!

Wrap up activity: Close the class by having them out away the objects that you show with your flashcards.

Teacher: Put away the sharpener! The students that put away the sharpener can line up to leave or just go. Keep going until you dismiss the class. You can add color to what the they have to put way. Teacher: Put away the yellow pencils!

  School Unit Small Cards

All the flashcards come in a smaller format.
Group drawing activity. Hand in small pieces of paper to your students. Students will start drawing the word that you say, show the small card just in case. When you say, STOP, students will give their piece of paper to the students next to him/her to continue drawing. And then when you say STOP again, they have to turn in the paper and have them write the word. Students will laugh when they see the complete drawing. They can stand up and show their drawing to the class and say what it is:  It’s a ruler.

Love this simple and interactive game.  Use it to help reinforce the new vocabulary, as in my example, the school unit words.

Print all the small cards from the unit and the templates for the tic tac toe, all X and O. Play continues until one student or team gets three marks in a row wither horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

Students can play multiple rounds by changing the small cards with the school items to new words.

Practice spelling with the letters included in the resource.

Next blog post will focus on the School Unit Worksheets included in the resource available at the TPT store. Take a look.   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/07/school-unit-worksheets-for-elementary.html

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