Fruit and Veggies Booklet for Elementary ELLs.

 This resource is included in The Fruit and Vegetables level 1 for Elementary ELLS.LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

This mini book creation encourages creativity, writing, and personal expression. Students will be writing their own text to practice language skills, sentence structure, and vocabulary in a meaningful context. It is a way of integrating reading, writing, and art, making it a fun and educational tool for young learners.

Print the templates.

The basket on the cover adds an artistic element, asking them to draw and color the fruit and vegetable of their preferences.

Guide your students prompts into the creative part of writing the text. Staples the pages together. In pairs, they can exchange the book and read.

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Fruit and Veggies Games for Elementary ELLs.

 This resource is included in The Fruit and Vegetables level 1 for Elementary ELLS.LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

 Playing games gives students plenty of opportunities to speak, listen, and understand food-related vocabulary in context, which reinforces language skills.

Foster collaborative learning as students work effectively in groups to put together this puzzle. Use the game to help with reading fluency and word recall. Solving puzzles requires focus and persistence.

Teachers can easily adjust the difficulty of the games to match students’ language proficiency. Students can simply draw what is described in the cards. More advanced students can create more sentences and say more fruit and vegetables to draw.

Students practice reading sentences using the grammar point: There is /There are and the comprehension by identifying the correct fruit or vegetable to draw using the B/W version or the colored one.

Most games are designed for minimal prep, allowing teachers to implement it quickly and with minimal setup. Writing out the names of fruits and vegetables helps students practice spelling, reinforcing correct letter sequences and word formation.

Students can work in small groups by following the path along the board. Players have opportunities to listen carefully to instructions, answer to questions to the cards out loud, enhancing oral language development. Students will win the coin points if they answer correctly. The student with the most points wins.

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Fruit and Veggies Worksheets for Elementary ELLs.

 This resource is included in The Fruit and Vegetables level 1 for Elementary ELLS.LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

The worksheets focus on—fruits and vegetables—that students will encounter in real-life situations, helping them communicate more effectively in English. These worksheets use engaging activities that cater to visual learners. By including activities like matching, sorting, and labeling, the worksheets offer a hands-on, multisensory approach.

Whether students are just starting or need more challenging tasks, these worksheets can be adapted for different levels. Choose the ones you need for your students.

Teachers can provide additional vocabulary using any of the worksheets.

Teachers can create cross-curricular lessons that connect language learning with math topics.

Print these worksheets for use in class or send them as homework.

Revisit the face and body vocabulary in the context of the fruit and vegetable unit, giving students the chance to reinforce their understanding of previously learned words.

Use your Fruit and Vegetables worksheets to integrate grammar instruction with vocabulary practice, helping ELLs develop both their vocabulary and grammatical competence in a fun, meaningful context.

Teachers can use the worksheets to spark conversations as listening exercises about food, promoting interaction and oral language development. This is a questionnaire worksheet. There is a set of even more, check them out: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Questionnaire-Worksheets-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-11315049

Build confidence and autonomy in their language learning as they can work on their own.

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Fruit and Veggies Small Cards for Elementary ELLs.

  This resource is included in The Fruit and Vegetables level 1 for Elementary ELLS.LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

The fruit and vegetable small cards are easy to carry and store, making them convenient on-the-go teaching. You might have seen on the blog that these cards can be used for a wide range of activities such as, group work, pair work, individual practice.

Small cards encourage interactive learning. Play Guess the Card:

One student picks a card without pointing at it, and describes the fruit or vegetable for the players to guess.

Players: Is it yellow?

Student: NO!

Players: Is it a fruit or vegetable?

Student: a vegetable.

Players: Is it green?

Student: No!

Players: Is it a carrot?

Student: Yes, it is!

Small cards can be used for different skill levels by adjusting the activities. Students can just write the word for beginners or write more complex sentence building for advanced students). 

Small cards allow students to practice independently by writing the words on a small board.

Play Circle the other words within a fruit and vegetable word. There are several. Students write the word on the card and then find the other word such as this example: pear, there is the word ear.

Give each student a "bingo" board with spaces to write any of the fruit and vegetables. The teacher calls out the fruit and vegetables using the small cards, and students crosses out the words they hear.

Matching Pairs with Flashcards. Use the small cards and larger flashcards together. Students match the small cards to the corresponding large flashcards as quickly as possible.

 Students categorize the small cards into "fruits" and "vegetables". This can be done in pairs or groups as a race.

Use the small cards in sentence-building activities. For example, "I like bananas,". Here is the video:

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Fruit and Veggies Flashcards for Elementary ELLs.

 This resource is included in The Fruit and Vegetables level 1 for Elementary ELLS.LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

Print the flashcards to provide strong visual cues to help ELLs connect the fruit and vegetables words with the images. Flashcards make it easy to repeat and reinforce vocabulary, which is essential for language retention in ELLs. The flashcards offer an opportunity for students to practice pronunciation, sentence formation, and simple phrases.

What is this? What are these?

Lay out several fruit and vegetables flashcards, some with singular items and others with plural items. Ask questions to help them notice the difference  between singular and plural.

Teacher: "What is it?" Students: It’s an onion.

Teacher: "What are these?"  Students: They are onions.

Show a flashcard and ask about the items: "Is it a tomato?" or "Are they tomatoes?" The students respond appropriately as they position the card under the correct heading.

Talk about colors to describe food items. Show a pear flashcard and have students say a full sentence: "The pear is green"

Do the same with the grapes: The grapes are purple.

Proceed to sort the flashcards by colors on the board.

Students can practice grouping by type (fruit vs. vegetable), enhancing their critical thinking and categorization skills. Show some flashcards and ask the students if it’s a fruit or a vegetable and sort it accordingly.

How many? Practice both counting and forming correct sentences using singular and plural forms.

Show flashcards with different numbers of fruits or vegetables. Count with your students the number of items in each one.

Ask the students to make sentences using "There is" for one item or "There are" for multiple items.

Teacher: "How many carrots are there?"

Students:  "There are eight carrots."

To talk about favorite fruit and veggie.

Ask the students, "What is your favorite fruit?" and "What is your favorite vegetable?"

They choose the flashcard of their preference and say: "My favorite fruit is pear."

What’s your favorite vegetable?

 Ask and answer questions about what you like. Engage students in interactive speaking exercises.

Student 1: Do you like broccoli?

Student 1: No, I don’t.

Introduce to your students that it is "oranges" in plural because it refers to oranges in general, not a specific orange.

Student 1: Do you like oranges?

Student 1: Yes, I do.

Practice sentences using "and" as a coordinating conjunction to connect two items.

Show how to use the conjunction "but" to show contrast between two ideas.

Practice Agreeing with "Too"

Make statements with have to describe possession of fruit and veggies.

Ask the class, "Who has an apple?"
Students: Vilma! Vilma has a big apple.

Talk about things you have and don't have. Understand and use simple present affirmative and negative.
Teacher: What does Lili have?
Students: She has two red apples.
Teacher: Who has a green pencil?
Students: The pineapple.

Offering things to each other. I want--, please.

I have another resource with just 4 fruit and 4 vegetables for more of a beginners level. Here is the link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetable-beginners-for-Elementary-ELL-2371980

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