Colors Unit Paintbrushes for Elementary ESL

 This resource is part of the Colors Unit for Elementary English- Starters. Find it by clicking here:           

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Paintbrushes come in different colors. Frequently review colors through different activities to reinforce retention. As teachers you can enhance the educational experience, making learning colors more effective using this resource.

Listen, Point and say to identify colors. This will have the students use critical thinking for communication as students find the color in the template. The mat has paintbrushes and color names.

Teacher: Point to black!

Students: black!

Information questions with What. Hold up a paintbrush small card and have students say the color aloud. Repeat with each color until students become confident.

Teacher: What color is it?
Students: It’s green.

Asking and answering questions about color.

Teacher: Is it blue?

Students: Yes, it is.

A worksheet to color the items using the correct colors. Say the color name aloud and have the student point to each one.

Color Matching Puzzles. Print on cardstock or heavy paper.

Find someone who has the other part of the puzzle.

Students can put the puzzle together individually or in small groups.  You can also create a memory game in which students must find the matching pairs.

The size of the pieces fit into a folder and there you have a file folder game ready for your wrap part of the lesson plan. Plan interactive and hands-on activities to keep students engaged. Using a file folder keeps all game pieces and materials organized in one place, preventing loss or damage. It also ensures that the classroom remains uncluttered, making it easier for students to focus. File folders are easy to carry, allowing the game to be used in different settings

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Clothes unit Flashcards for Elementary ESL

 This resource is part of Clothes Theme for Elementary ESL or Formadora de Lengua Inglesa. Click here:

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Students will identify and sort the clothes flashcards by color. Review the colors on the board by drawing a color splotch and having the stduents say the name.

Have the students say what they have sorted: a brown hat!

Point to different clothing item and ask: What color is the blouse?
Students: red! It’s red.
Teacher: What color are the shoes?
Students: They are pink and yellow.

More vocabulary practice is to make a chart. Place several people flashcards on the board and make a chart with several clothing items. Have the stduents come and check which clothes the person is wearing and write to the ones the person isn’t wearing.

Let’s review prepositions.
Teacher: Where is the boy?
Stuents: He’s in the boot.

To talk about possession.
Teacher: Who has a pink hat?
Students: Number 8.
Teacher: Number 1 has a green hat.
Students: Number 2 has a brown hat.

Talk about possession in plural and identify the owner of the hats.

Teacher: Who has a purple hat?
Stuents: Number 6 and 12.
Teacher: Number 10 and 11 have green hats.
Stuents: Number 8 and 9 have pink hats!

Possessive adjectives His and her. Describing possession. Place two similar flashcards on the board to contrast what the people are wearing.

Teacher: This is his T-shirt!
Students: This is her T-shirt!

More on asking questions about possession: Are these your boots?

Students: Yes, they are.

Use the flashcards to help the students express likes or dislikes. Ask students about their opinion: Do you like jackets?

Start talking about possessives. Ask questions using the possessive pronouns: Whose shoe is this?

Students: The shoe is hers.

To describe what one is wearing using the present continuous tense. Place several flashcards on the board and ask what they are wearing using descriptive adjectives such as colors.

Students: She is wearing a black dress.

To describe what people are wearing as the same. Place similar clothing items on the flashcards and have them identify which one it is. Students will answer questions with what.

Teacher: What are they wearing?

Students: a green dress!

Play Who am I? I choose several pictures of people all wearing jeans. Teacher: I am wearing blue jeans, blue t-shirt and white sneakers.

Students: You are number 4.

Relate the clothes to a part of the body.

I wear gloves on my hands.

I wear boots on my feet.

I wear a hat on my head.

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Board games for Elementary English Language Learners

 Find a themed game board in each unit for teaching elementary English language learners. This kind of games are very engaging and interactive for your students. You can adapt all the games to suit your players to encourage participation, right here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Board-games-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-11333780

Is this something that you would include in your lesson plan? Maybe not? Would like to? Well, read and see if you are up for it.

Use the board games as a review of the new vocabulary of the unit. It is a fun repetition of the words. The markers are also included with each board game. So, just grab the dice. Each space has a color. Players have to move along the path. When they land on a space, they have to say the name of that color and show an item in that color.

Create a motivated and positive classroom atmosphere, where students know that there will be an enjoyable learning game to wrap up the class. Players will describe the colors of the space they landed on besides the number: It’s an orange twelve.

Games help with memory skills that are crucial for English language retention. That’s another reason for printing and having the games ready to play. The objective of the game is to navigate through the various spaces on the game board, learning and practicing vocabulary related to different facial features.

Board games are a very informal way of assessing your student’s language proficiency in communicating. Are they using the language enough? Are they struggling to move along the board?

Players will navigate through the various spaces on the game board, answering questions related to family members with the cards in the game, light or dark green.

Another House unit activiti with a board game.Players will move their family members game pieces by correctly identifying the rooms of the house. The first player to reach the finish line wins.

Add a twist to the pet unit board game, but it works with any other theme. Players have to describe the pet they landed on in order to take that pet into their pet shop.

Students can do more than just identifying the word but saying a phrase or complete sentence in order to get the food card. The more food cards a player has, he/she is the winner.

Players move their game pieces around the Toyland game board, by completing challenges such as miming how to play with the toys they land on.

All the board games are included in each unit and in the Bundle, right here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elementary-English-Language-learners-teaching-Units-Starters-BUNDLE-11215540

Graphing for Elementary English Language Learners

 Include graphing in your lesson plan as a valuable teaching tool for your students to integrate English and Math.

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It will enhance the understanding of mathematical concepts such as counting.

It will promote language development. Students will express themselves orally to show their opinion. Ask questions about the graphs

It will foster critical thinking skills where the students will compare, contrast and draw conclusions about the results.

It will provide an engaging learning experience. It is an interactive activity. Students will manipulate the data and interpret the results.

Show the visual representation of the results on the board.

Adapt the graph to the different students that you have in class.

The resource is available here:    https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Graphing-Worksheets-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-11309998

Check these ideas:

The favorite toy worksheet can lead to a speaking activity. They will draw their favorite toy and write a short text. When all the worksheets are done, have the children walk around and find another student or group of students with the same favorite toy. Stand together. Then, graph the results.

Teacher: How many trains are the favorite?
Students: two!

Graphing the favorite food. Do this one as a simple survey by placing the options on the board, using the flashcards: pizza, hamburger, chicken, fries, hot dog, salad. Create a bar graph on the board as they will come with their worksheet and place it under their option bar. Tally the results.

Here is another example with the pet unit to make a bar graph on the board, to add variety have the students write sentences about the favorite pet winner, such as: The favorite pet is the dog. I like dogs.

There is a worksheet to do a pet ownership graph. Students will draw the pet they have at home.  Grap showing the number of students who have dogs, cats, etc. And students with no pets at home.

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.

Use the number of rooms of the house worksheet to graph. Discuss with your students that homes have different quantities of rooms. Graph by writing the numbers 1 to 5 for bedrooms basically which will vary in the results

Make a list of the school objects for the favorite items. They have to choose from the list and draw on the 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.

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.

I hope you include any of these graph ideas into your lesson plan. All the worksheets are included in each unit resource. All of them are in the BUNDLE:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elementary-English-Language-learners-teaching-Units-Starters-BUNDLE-11215540

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