School Unit Worksheets for Elementary English Language Learners

       This Primary English teacher resource is included in the School Unit for Elementary English Language Learners-Starters:    https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/School-Theme-for-Elementary-ESL-1707072

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

These School Unit worksheets are perfect for helping elementary English language learners (ELLs) practice key classroom vocabulary and language skills. Each worksheet is designed to be meaningful, visual, and developmentally appropriate — ideal for centers, small groups, homework, or whole-class activities.

Work through worksheets together during small-group time, highlighting the spelling and meaning of key words.

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 or have 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  for Vocabulary recognition.

Vocabulary Labeling Pages

The classroom objects vocabulary worksheets can be assigned for independent practice, they can work on their own or using their text book.  Use this 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.

Use this pointing activity, where students will visually identify the school words from the images.

This is a complete the words with the vowels as a spelling practice. Students can cut the words into cards. Play Show me or Point to: Point to the pen!

They can also place all the cards into alphabetical order.

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.

Picture and Word Matching worksheet that includes a set of images on a separate page and corresponding words on another. Ask students to cut the images and match to each word. This helps connect visual cues with written language.

Word Search & Puzzle Activities

The word search includes common school objects. Encourage students to say the words aloud as they find them. This connects the word’s spelling with its pronunciation.

Read and color worksheet. We might have students that need reinforcement on colors. Easy to do maybe at home this crayon box with the colors that they should know at this point. This combination of reading and coloring make learning English more engaging.

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 comprehension worksheet. It contains short grammar sentences. Then, students can cut it up and make a puzzle with the two worksheets that come with the same format. This will reinforce the understanding of the grammatically correct sentences.

Sentence Completion Pages

Answering yes/no questions requires students to understand meaning, not just memorize.

Possessive adjectives worksheets.

They are fundamental to forming simple sentences and expressing ownership. Without understanding possessive adjectives, learners may struggle to communicate basic concepts such as who owns what, such as his/her.

A worksheet with the possessive adjective: my.

Whose worksheet. Review "Whose" alongside possessive adjectives to form questions about ownership. They will reinforce to ask questions like "Whose book is this?" to inquire about possession, thereby improving their question formation skills.

Matching Worksheets

To be Questions and short 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, but with the school objects.

Contractions: It’s Worksheet. Understanding and using common contractions will help learners understand any written text or spoken conversation.

Read statements and color.

Complete the sentence with: I have!

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.

Practice “This is” and “There are.” Students will complete the sentences to describe singular and plural images.

Independent Work.  Another read and complete the worksheet. Once students are ready, challenge them to add questions. For example, Who is she? What color is she?

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.

There are two listening worksheets to provide your students and extra opportunity to practice this important skill in a more relaxed way. Print the worksheets that features a boy and a girl in a classroom. This is a combination of visual elements such as classroom objects to help make connections between the words and colors enhancing understanding.

Teacher: Point to the scissors!

Students can also say sentences for the classmates to point at.

Ask questions: What color are the scissors?
Students: red!

Finally, have them write sentences about the picture.

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There is a worksheet to read and color! Have students read completed sentences aloud for pronunciation and fluency.

Prepositions and school unit for ESL — hands-on activities, games, and worksheets to practise prepositions of place with school vocabulary for elementary English learners, all in the complete pack.  Go to this blog post: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/11/prepositions-and-school-unit-for.html

                                    

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