Family unit Books for the Elementary EFL

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Find two classroom readers to help your students support the new vocabulary. Dedicate a space for writing and then reading. This kind of activity helps into building confidence in creating texts.

The focus is the family members key vocabulary and the structures that have been revised through the unit. Invite your learner to explore writing. Print and staple as many pages that you think students might need to write about the family member that they choose. They will draw that family member on the cover or add a photo. Students will read to the class their book.

This is an old book with pictures to complement the sentences. This kind of picture books are very effective as a learning tool.

 

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Family Unit Games for Elementary ELL

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Cognitive and social skills are at play with the board games. Just print the motivating activities as many as you need for 4 students. It comes with golf balls as markers, students will get to chose their favorite color to play. I added an open clip behind each one to make it stand. The board game has a light green and dark green spaces. Depending on where the student lands, he/she will take that color card and answer the question in order to move on the board.

This descriptive sentence activity with cards helps with writing rich, detailed sentences. Students will write their sentences first using the cards and putting in as many words or cards as possible. Then, they will write all the sentences and draw /color the person that they described.

Using adjectives to write sentences is essential for effective communication, either when writing or speaking.

An old family unit domino game that I couldn’t leave behind. Use it as an assessment tool to see how your students can interact and use active vocabulary during gameplay.

A matching words and picture quilt. Students will match the family member word, the adjectives tall and short, young and old to each picture in the quilt. You will check their comprehension as they associate the words to the picture.

A pocket chart set is here to aid the students to write sentences related to the hair color in each family member.  It will promote interaction between peers to complete the sentences.

Spelling is a fundamental aspect of written communication. Do this  spelling activity with this robot family set of cards. Students will write all the words in Capitals for attention and maybe fun!

Place the template with the cards that you want to practice inside a clear plastic sheet and have the students write the words using whiteboard markers in different colors and then erase for future use.

Letters for writing words. Another spelling activity for building confidence. Just print the letters, as many as you need and have students use the small cards as a reference.

Next part will be the Family Unit book.

 

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Family unit Worksheets for the ESL

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The worksheets can be an assessment tool for you to identify if there is a gap in the learning process of this unit. Use them as an effective supplement for your textbooks.  Take a look at the all the worksheets that you can find on the resource.

Labeling worksheets are for your students to support writing.Students love to move on to worksheets with the cute family members. 

Some students just need a little help to develop writing in English. Here is a simple tracing worksheet. This one is with mother and father, and I included another worksheet with mom and dad. I can write any word that you are using in your teaching.

Playing Picture Bingo improves family members recognition and their facial features. They will have fun and lower their anxiety factor in class. Have the students color the hair in any of the playing colors by using the small cards included in the resource. Those will be your calling cards.

Teacher: Mother has brown hair! If the student has it, he/she will cross it out. The winner is the one to cross all the family members.

Adding adjectives to express the physical characteristics of the family members can be challenging for the newcomers. Practice using young and old and tall short to make more meaningful the way to talk about the people. This is a set of sorting worksheets. Students will cut any of the worksheets and paste where it corresponds. They can draw or bring pictures of their family members and sort accordingly.

Let’s go for a crossword fun to improve independent learning.

Engage students into writing the real names of their family members. Then, Let’s work on sentence construction to develop the linguistic competence. On a paper or notebook students can write sentences about their families as my example.

Promote active learning with this worksheet.

Students will complete the sentence and will be a prompt for extra writing.

Reading simple sentences and matching to the correct picture and write the corresponding name will model proper writing.

Another worksheet to use for reading short sentences as part of the the reading instruction routine.

Adding a little spice to the writing part, there two dice. One with long hair for women and another with short hair for men. Throw the dice, complete the sentences and color accordingly.

Students will draw their family and write a short description.Ask them questions about the drawing: Who's this? What's his/hername?

Use the designed questionnaires, there are three to choose from, such as “How many people are there in your family?" You can prepare a bar graph on the board. Challenge your students to compete in two teams to see who can collect the most survey responses within a given time limit. Give an award and count the answers.

I am including two old worksheets for this unit. 

 

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Family unit Small Cards for the ESL

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Develop all the confidence needed to be a successful English Language learner. The small cards are helpful to identify family members and other people.

Use the family unit small cards to create an opportunity for your students to extend the vocabulary learned as they organized the cards alphabetically. You might have taught the letter names by now. If not, show them how to put the family words into alphabetical order and say them as they make a line with the cards.

Use the family unit small cards for personalisation of the new vocabulary. Have your students express their own opinion on the text as they describe their mother or any other significant people for them that you assign.

Teach your students to use adjectives to describe the family member when they write texts.

Do this color code spelling activity. Students will choose a color for the vowels and another one for the consonants. Have them write the words accordingly. Have them notice that there is a pattern in the ending of these words: father, mother, brother, grandmother and grandfather.

Students will have to start their thinking and categorizing skills to sort the family members cards by hair color.

Create families. Students will use their reasoning and their problem- solving skills as they classify and organize the people into families. Have them explain their grouping.

Use this tic tac toe game to review grammar points. This kind of games foster communication. Prepare your board game with the printables provided in the resource. It can also be played on the board. One team can be x or o. Place the family members small cards on the spaces on the game. The first team will choose a person on a square and make a correct sentence using the chosen family member. It can be This is Mother/ Mother has blonde hair/

If the sentence is correct, the team will place the X or O on that square and take away that family member. If the sentence is incorrect, the family member will still play on the board.

The first team to make three X or O in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row will be the winner team. 

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Family unit Flashcards for the Elementary English Language Learner

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Find easy-to-implement strategies for a rich learning environment with these family unit visuals.The focus is on teaching English EFL (as a Foreign Language) it can also be used for ESL/ELL/ELA.

Use the flashcards to introduce structures and the new vocabulary.Create speaking lessons to develop fluency based on any activity proposed here. Introduce the question word:WHO? to ask about people.

Introduce the family members vocabulary.
Teacher: This is father.
This is my mother.
Students can identify family members: Who’s this?
Students: He is the brother.

Develop speaking skills with this activity. Have the students understand and use this/that to introduce a family member. Hand in family members flashcards to several students to adopt that person. Assign a student to introduce them to the class: 

This is my brother. His name is Tomas.
That is my sister. Her name is Rose.

Give information about the family members as communication goes first. Divide the board in two and create a small family and a big family on each side of the board.
Teacher: This is a small family. It’s mother, father, brother and sister.

Teacher: This family is big. Let’s count.

Students can count the members of their family and write it down on piece of paper.
Ask questions: How many people are there in your family?
Student: five.
Ask questions: How many brothers do you have?
Student: two.

You can also assign a last name to each family. For example: This is the Blonde Family. This is the Red Family.

Assign the sister or any other family member flashcard in the middle of the board.  Give her a name, I chose Carol. Make kind of a mind map. Talk about possession: This is Carol’s mother. Continue introducing the family member.

Ask questions: Who’s this?
Students: This is Carol’s father.
Ask questions: Who’s that?
Students: That is Carol’s brother.
Teacher: Is this Carol’s grandpa?
Students: No, it’s Carol’s father.
Understand the names of the people of the family. Students can also give names to people in Carol’s family.
 What’s Carol’s mother name?
Students: Luisa! (write down the name on the board)

Talk about the physical appearance of the family members. Select several flashcards of family members with different hair color.
Teacher: Look at father. What color is his hair?
Students: blond! He has blond hair.
Teacher: Who has brown hair?
Students: Mother!
Teacher: Does the sister have black or red hair?
Student: red hair!

Show the words big and little to introduce the brothers and sisters using the focus vocabulary.

Call out a name of someone in your class. They must stand up and tell everyone a fact about their family. For example: My mother’s name is Anna.’

 Jumbled names Activity. Write the word for each family member with the letters jumbled on the board. For example: emtorh (Mother) Hand in the individual flashcards to the students. Make sure that you include all students as you have a flashcard for each one. At your signal the students have to come up to the board and place their family member under the jumbled word.

Introduce the adjectives such as young or old to describe the family members. Discuss with your students why they are sorting the people into these adjectives.
Teacher: Grandmother is old.
Students: The baby is young.

Using adjectives when speaking will help studentsdescribe people using words.

Also do the adjectives tall and short to describe family members.

Next part will be the Family Unit small cards.

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