Pets Unit Books for Elementary ELL

This resource is part of the pets unit for Elementary English Languge learners-Starters to provide studenst with more exposure to the language.    LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-10780015

There are two printable pets unit books to wrap up this unit. They will incorporate the language skills of reading and writing for Elementary ESL/ELL learners. As a teacher you are unique and your students as well. Adapt the activity according to your learners to practise animal vocabulary, comprehension, and simple sentences.

Book 1: Students can color as they wish or you can dictate the colors of each animal on the template and the place where they belong as a listening part of this activity. Then, they will cut the animals and glue them in the corresponding spot. There is a li8ned page for the students to write the next to finish the book.

BOOK 2:  This is a group book, each student will color a page and then assemble and read together and take home to read with the parents.

When to Use Pet Booklets

• During pets or animal themed units  

• As part of reading centres  

• For paired or small group work  

• As homework reinforcement  

• During ESL morning routines

Printable pets unit worksheets for elementary ESL/ELL learners — practice pet vocabulary, reading, writing, and speaking through fun ESL activities. They are part of the complete pets unit pack:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/01/pets-unit-worksheets-for-elementary-ell.html

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Pets Unit Games for Elementary ELL

 This resource is included in the Pets Unit for Elementary ELL -Starters. Use these to give your K-2 English students a variety of activities to engage them.

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-10780015

The games will boost your students’ confidence in their English language skills. They will participate with knowledge of the language and take risks at playing with their peers. Games provide a place to motivate speaking expanding your students' linguistic competence.

The pet unit board game can be adapted for the different levels of English that you have in class. Make your own rules for the game or even better have the students make new ones to make it more challenging for the more proficient students.

Print the board, cut and glue to assemble one bigger game. Glue the tips of the game board markers. There are four, so this is a game for mainly 4 students. The pet shop template is for students to place the cards they get when playing. The winner is the one with the most pets in their shops. Students can play by just recognizing the pet they land on and get the corresponding card to place in their shop. As they get more advanced, make more difficult gramma sentences, such as: I want an orange cat for my pet shop.

Playing this picture and word domino is great to use as a social interaction activity to promote socialization between your students.  It will be a matching picture and then word and so on. If you need bigger tiles let me know. I made them small in order for students to take them even outdoors or to play on their own.

Jumbled sentences games will reinforce the students with the correct understanding of the order of words in a sentence. This works towards proper grammar and syntax rules. Students’ ca moves the cards to make larger sentences or just make phrases. They can even write them down on their notebooks afterwards.

The sentence association game is great for language production as the students have to read the sentences and find the corresponding picture. They might find two pictures for one sentence and use their ability to pick the correct one. As your teaching context is unique, adapt this game as a reading activity or a listening/speaking one in which one student reads the sentence and the others find the corresponding card with the picture.

There is a set of small cards with pictures and words. It will help students memorize the new vocabulary. Use them for writing activities if you wish.

Include spelling activities for vocabulary development. This kind of activities helps into learning and remembering the new words.

After the students write the words using the cards, they can also write those on their notebooks.

 I used play Spelling Bingo a lot with my students. They really loved it. Just hand in a spelling bingo pet template to each student or group of students, so they know that these are spelling words playing. They will write five pet words on the template.

Call the words using the cards from any of the games above.

Made a guess what? Instead of a guess who? game. Give each pair of students a template with all the pets. I would suggest that you place them on a clear plastic sheet for them to write on the card and then erase easily for future use.

The students will ask each other questions bout the animal that one student selected for the other to guess: Is it green? Does it have big eyes? Is it a frog?

The dog and prepositions ESL activity — printable worksheets and hands-on games to teach prepositions of place with a dog theme. Go to this blog post:

https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-dog-and-prepositions-for-elementary.html 

Check my blog for Kindergarten English Language Learners and find more resources on this unit. CLICK: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/05/pets-unit-flashcards-for-kindergarten.html

Pets Unit Worksheets for Elementary ELL

This resource is part of the pets unit for Elementary English Languge learners-Starters. ENL teacher can find the material useful.    LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-10780015

 Here are the Printable pets unit worksheets for elementary ESL/ELL learners  to practice pet vocabulary, reading, writing, and speaking through fun ESL activities. The worksheets were designed with lovely visuals and fun tasks. They will capture your student’s attention and enjoy working on them.

Here is a video with all the worksheets in the resource.

This word search helps beginners review pet vocabulary while building spelling skills.

This worksheet helps students practice beginning sounds and pet vocabulary by writing and coloring words that match each letter.

These worksheets help beginners review color words and pet vocabulary through simple drawing and coloring.

Students draw and label their favorite pet, identifying body parts such as ears, tail, legs, and whiskers. They then write a short descriptive sentence using colors and simple adjectives. This activity supports vocabulary development and sentence writing.

Students draw the pet they have at home and add their picture to a class graph. Together, the class compares how many students have dogs, cats, other pets, or no pets. This activity builds early graphing skills.

Students create a pet shop by folding, labeling, and gluing the animals onto a shoebox, then adding a store sign. All this, after completing the pet word on the worksheet.

Learning to use adjectives to describe pets will contribute to the student’s vocabulary expansion. Students cut and paste the pet pictures to sort them by key features: long or short ears, long or short tails, and animals with two or four legs.

Students follow step-by-step directions to create a pet shop scene. They listen and color the pets as the teacher describes them, cut out the animals, and glue them behind the shop window using construction paper. Students finish by writing a short description of their pet shop, combining listening, fine motor skills, and simple sentence writing.

Students listen and color the parts of the pets’ bodies as directed, then answer simple questions about the colors they used. This activity reinforces body-part vocabulary.

Students practice numbers 1 to 20 by coloring the birds according to number-color clues and then writing the answers in complete sentences. This two-step activity reinforces number recognition, color words.

Explore the complete Numbers 1 to 20 resource included in the complete pet pack. Check the blog post: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/08/pets-unit-numbers-1-to-20-for.html

These worksheets help beginners practice numbers 1–20 by matching, ordering, and writing missing numbers on their notebooks.

Students read simple sentences and color the pictures to match the descriptions.

Students cut and paste the animals into the correct places where they live, such as a cage, tank, or bed. This hands-on activity helps learners practice pet vocabulary, early categorization skills, and following simple directions while strengthening fine motor skills.

Students read simple sentences and place or draw the animals in the correct rooms of the house. This activity helps learners practice basic prepositions of place, house vocabulary, and sentence comprehension through a hands-on, visual task that is easy for teachers to model and assess.

This first worksheet helps beginners practice prepositions of place and house room vocabulary through clear pictures and simple sentence frames. The second Worksheet where students answer basic comprehension questions about pets.

Students read and color the pictures, then rewrite the sentences and create their own questions using Who…? This activity helps learners practice early question formation.

After matching the pets to the correct children, students write the missing words to complete each sentence. This activity reinforces the sentence pattern “He/She has a.

This worksheet helps beginner learners describe pets using simple sentences and colors. Students read, write, and draw, reinforcing vocabulary, sentence structure, and comprehension in a fun, hands-on way.

Be fancy and provide each student with a clipboard, pencil, and the questionnaire worksheet. After the writing all the answers, gather the students in different groups to share their findings and discuss the results.

Students read short, meaningful sentences and show understanding by drawing, coloring, and completing the pictures, which lowers anxiety and builds confidence.

This worksheet helps beginners practice spelling by completing simple animal words and matching them to pictures.

These worksheets help beginners practice pet vocabulary and simple grammar through clear visuals, repetition, and hands-on writing, making language learning easy, engaging, and confidence-building.

Perfect for early learners, these worksheets combine writing, vocabulary, and visual support to develop confidence in describing pets.

Practice the Numbers 1 to 20 within the Pets Unit. Go to the blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/08/pets-unit-numbers-1-to-20-for.html

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Pets Unit Small cards for Elementary ELL

These pet small cards are part of the pets unit for Elementary English Languge learners-Starters pack.  Newcomer Teacher can find the material great for planning, ready to download at the store.     LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-10780015

 These **Pets Unit Small Cards** give teachers compact, ready-to-use visuals that make it easy for students to practise pet vocabulary actively — in games, matching, speaking drills, and stations. This is ideal for beginner ESL/ELL learners who need multiple exposures and repetition to master English vocabulary confidently.

Use these to introduce and develop animal vocabulary.

Introduce the verb to have in interrogative, affirmative and negative answers.

Hand in all the printable pets unit vocabulary small cards to the students and ask questions: What do you have?
Student: I have a dog.

Teacher: Do you have a cat?

Student: Yes, I do.

Do you have a fish?
Student: No, I don’t.

Speaking fluency. Students can describe the pet on the small cards.
Look, I have a mouse!

 Listening comprehension. Have your students develop their self-expression through movement using their body and/or mime as you show the small cards. Check how the students will reproduce animal movements maybe even using the sounds the pets make.
Teacher: Move like a fish!

Picture-to-word matching skills. Display the pet unit small cards and the word strips all mixed up on the board, a volunteer matches the picture to the written word.

Show all the flashcards, both pictures and word cards. Give nine children the words and bring them to the front of the class. Then, hand out the pictures around the class. The children with the pictures do not let the children with the words see their flashcard. The children with the words then have to find which children have the picture that corresponds to it by asking: Do you have a mouse?

Students can do sorting of the small cards on their own. Use the cards to review vocabulary related to the parts of the body of the pets.

Hand in several white boards with the sorting phrases written on each. It can be the size of the ears: big ears and small ears.

Use for Simple sentence building: The rabbit has big ears, but the cat has small ears.

 Sort the pets with 2 legs and 4 legs!

Sort the size of the tails: big or small/long or short.

Create your own grid for the tic tac toe game. Draw a grid on a piece of cardboard of 9 spaces arranged in 3x3.

When to Use These Small Cards

• Vocabulary introduction or review  

• Pair and small group activities  

• ESL centers / stations  

• Warm-ups / quick recall drills  

• Early finisher tasks

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