Birthday Unit Games for Elementary ELLs

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Birthday games introduce vocabulary and phrases related to a real-life context (birthdays), making language learning more meaningful and relatable. The playful nature of games can reduce anxiety in ELLs.

Fun games such as domino can help maintain motivation. This Birthday-themed game allows students to match images with the corresponding word. It is a way to reinforce word recognition.

Birthday Puzzle games offer repeated exposure to the new vocabulary making it easy to retain new words through play. As students put the puzzle together, they can be encouraged to verbalize what they are matching.

Board games involve interaction and collaboration between peers. There are two cards that prompt players to answer the question. The other cards are for moving one space or going back.

Spelling Games can incorporate visual, and kinesthetic elements. Provide students with the printable cut-out letters in the shape of birthday-themed items balloons and candles. Use these for various spelling games where students arrange the letters to spell vocabulary words  based on the small cards, puzzles, etc.

As an extra spelling activity have the students do word shapes. Give the learners math paper with the squares. The letters that are within the lines have to be represented by a square and the other letters that go above the line should be a rectangle to fit them. Prepare an example for the class. A fun way to see how each word represents a shape.

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Present Continuous Games for Elementary English Language Learners

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Use the Printable games to reinforce the present continuous tense in a dynamic way. Students can repeatedly use the present continuous reinforcing their understanding. Many games involve speaking, listening, and interacting with others, which helps ELLs practice the present continuous in a communicative way.

 

This is a classic Bingo game that comes with 15 cards for the students to listen carefully to the sentences describing ongoing actions in the present continuous tense such as "She is jumping,".  They will have to recognize the tense when spoken. To mark their Bingo cards correctly, students need to identify the correct picture. There is a teacher’s mat for you place the calling cards as you say the tense sentence. You can also use this game for other tenses since it is in the base form of the verb.

This Domino game combines pictures and words. This game will game appeals to both visual and linguistic learners. Have your students practice the action-related vocabulary (e.g., "running," "eating," "dancing") as they match the picture with the correct word.

Grab a die and give it the players to play the board game. They roll a dice to determine how many spaces to move forward.  There are four challenge cards (each with a corresponding color on the path) where students have to answer a question "What are you doing?"—The player answers, "I am dancing". Each player chooses a game piece to move along the board.  I used fun foam pieces that I had left behind. The goal is to reach the end of the board first and get the most points. On my example: I landed on a dark blue space, answered correctly and won 4 points and got the corresponding token.

Letter tiles work well for spelling and sentence construction skill.  Use the sets of letter tiles with enough letters to form words and then write sentences later on their notebook. Use any of the cards from any of the games with the base verbs written on them to aid in spelling.

The matching picture and word mat is an activity useful for visual learners and younger students.  they take turns selecting a word and then finding the corresponding picture that matches the action in the picture.  Once they find a match, they can place the word and say a sentence in the present continuous reinforcing their speaking skills. Use this game with any other tense later on.

Solve the puzzle set as you scatter the pieces on a table or the floor. Make sure that the pieces are mixed up so that students need to think carefully about how to match them. This can be done individually or in small groups to match the verb to the picture in the present continuous tense.

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Furniture in the House printable games for Elementary ESL

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Printable games make learning enjoyable. All the games include attractive images that capture students' attention. Tailor the games to different skill levels and learning styles to ensure that all students can participate. Printable games are a cost-effective resource that can be easily distributed and reused.

Printable games provide repeated exposure to the furniture vocabulary in a new context such as a puzzle, helping to reinforce memory. This kind of games can develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Matching games help teachers assess students' understanding and progress.

Development of writing Skill.  This dice game involves writing sentences in affirmative or negative to what is present in the house, which help improve literacy skills. There is a number dice that refers to quantity of items in the house. The others are furniture to consider that you have or not in that quantity in your house.

Students can work on printable games independently or in small groups, allowing teachers to provide individualized support as needed. This is a simple spelling activity to use with the dice, the small cards or any other.

Board games are inherently interactive, encouraging active participation from all students. This helps maintain high levels of engagement. It comes with cards in each color of the board path and the point coin as well. Players will land on a color and say a sentence and get the coin of that color if they say it right: The table isn’t in the bathroom!

Games provide a context for using new vocabulary, helping students understand how words are used.

Dominos require players to work together, take turns, and communicate effectively, promoting teamwork and social interaction.

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Can as an Ability Games

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Students are more likely to participate actively when they are enjoying the activity. Games turn learning into a dynamic and interactive experience, making it more enjoyable and engaging for students, boosting their confidence in using English.

Domino game. Matching pictures to words requires critical thinking and problem-solving, which aids cognitive development. Each card has two halves—one half with a picture of an action (e.g., swimming) and the other half with a corresponding verb (e.g., " ride"). Print and cut out the domino cards. Shuffle them and distribute an equal number of cards to each student. The first student looks for a card in their hand that matches either the picture or the verb on the starting piece. If a student cannot make a match, they pass their turn. The game continues until all dominoes have been placed or no more matches can be made. The student with the fewest remaining cards wins.

This board Game involves repeated use of "can" for expressing ability. Students roll the dice and move their marker pieces around the board as they answer the questions written on the circle cards of the color they land on. Prepare the markers by folding the items. Players have the opportunity to practice speaking and listening in a natural context.

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The puzzle game will have students work in pairs or groups, promoting collaboration and teamwork. Pictures provide context, aiding in comprehension and retention. It can be played in pairs or small groups, promoting teamwork. Players can practise talking about the abilities as they put the puzzles together.

The dice and writing game will help reinforce this skill in the context of using "can." Students will throw two dice that you will previously have ready. There are 5 dice to choose from. The players will write sentence using and/but to write about their abilities. Example: I can sing, but I can’t play football. This kind of game helps students practice sentence structure, conjunctions and creative thinking.

Matching Mat Games can be easily adapted to suit different learning styles and proficiency levels, ensuring that all students can participate and benefit. This is a verb and picture matching mat. Students can also say a correct sentence when matching the cards. This can be played as a memory matching game if you cut the cards from the mat.

I love to include letters to make crosswords or spelling activities.

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Clothes unit Games for Elementary ESL

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 Integrate games into the learning process for your elementary English language learners (ELLs), especially when teaching vocabulary related to clothing.

Clothes Unit Board Games are fun and engaging. Use them to increase students' motivation to learn. Children are more likely to participate actively with their peers. This board game requires that the players think critically and answer the questions on the card according to the color they land on.

Repetition is crucial for vocabulary acquisition. Playing clothes domino will provide an opportunity to repeat and practice the clothes words in a natural and enjoyable context. Students will practice speaking and listening as they place their domino tile in the corresponding place.

The combination of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic elements in games can enhance memory retention. Interactive activities such as the clothes puzzle printable will help students remember vocabulary better than traditional rote learning. Players have to solve the puzzle as they navigate the game.

Many games require teamwork, collaboration, and communication, which helps ELLs develop their social skills and practice language use in social interactions. This is an old game. People name it the snapdragon or cootie catcher. Print the template if it useful or have the students do it from scratch.  I will add a video for how to assemble the snapdragon.

Spelling Games create a low-stress environment.  Print this Hands-On Interaction letter tiles. This game can be particularly beneficial for young learners.

Games can be adapted to cater to different learning styles and proficiency levels, such as this matching word to the clothes pictures. This allows teachers to provide differentiated instruction for the students present in class. Associating words with images helps students remember vocabulary more effectively.

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Food unit Games for Elementary English Language Starters

 This resource is part of the Food Unit for Elementary English Language Starters to prepare your bank of games and activities for your lesson plan. Perfect for any English Classroom Teacher.

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Games are a valuable and flexible teaching tool in the English Language class. Adapt the games to suit the language proficiency of your students, to their specific needs and abilities. Promote social competence between your learners.

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This Linguistic competence game in which the students will match the word to a picture of a food or drink item accommodates to the different learning styles present in our classrooms. This game caters to visual learners effectively to build meaning.

Help your students with memorization and you know the perfect game for that: MEMORY!

Using the same cards to play the grammar bags. Find two lunch bags and glue the words countable and uncountable nouns. Students will sort the cards and justify why based on how you taught them. An easy game to promote pair or group interaction.

A similar game is with this food quilt to associate the word to the picture.

Board games can be used to reinforce grammar rules. You can use it to review the countable and uncountable nouns, for example. Besides the board and the game pieces there is a set of cards that students will collect once they get to say if the noun is countable or uncountable. Communication systems will activate with a speaker and listener interaction.

This descriptive sentence game is fun as the students will draw what they managed to write using the cards and then transcribing on the worksheet. They can add more sentences to develop writing skills. This kind of activity encourages the use of more varied vocabulary. They can explore writing more sentences.

Print the food unit domino tiles to promote language acquisition by engaging the students to play. They will be speaking and interacting as the tiles come with words and pictures.

Food Unit Sentence association cards are great as a visual aid for many learners. They will associate a sentence to any picture on the cards. Students will use the visual context to relate to the sentences on the cards. This is an enjoyable and motivating extra activity.

Further practice as a spelling activity using the cheese letter tiles to write the food words. Students will touch the cards enhancing retention of the new vocabulary.

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