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

Categories Card Games for Elementary English Language Learners

 Playing categories is beneficial for your students into their vocabulary expansion o4r review. It promotes critical thinking to select the correct category. It is great for word association. Useful for learners that are staring English at the age of six, seven and maybe even older.   Find it here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Categories-Card-Games-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-11296159

Print this fun and educational game. The cards have different and relevant categories: school, numbers, toys, pets, rooms of the house, pets, family, face, food.

Shuffle all the cards and place them on a table.

Players can take turns drawing a card and placing it under the category that it belongs.

The game ends when all the cards are under each category. You can have several groups work at the same time by printing several sets.

Adjust the game to your students in class to have the most fun and interaction possible.

You can also make a poster using the cards and bring it in to the class. Have the students play using their notebooks. name a category and have the students write all the words form the units they can recall in a set time. Players can share their set of words and see who could write the most words on that category. Do you have any other idea? Well, please share in the comments box.

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Tic Tac Toe Game for Elementary English Language Learners

 Love this simple and interactive game.  Use it to help reinforce the new vocabulary, as in my example, the school unit words. A game that total beginners or students with English form pre-school can play with no problem.

Print all the small cards from the unit and the templates for the tic tac toe, all X and O for playing noughts and crosses as some know it.

Cut all the small cards.

Create your own grid. Draw a grid on a piece of cardboard of 9 spaces arranged in 3x3.

All the units from the Bundle to teach Elementary English Language Learners have the same small cards to implement the game. So, it is just preparing it once and play it throughout the teaching of any unit.

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 Once students know how to play, they can do it alone in groups of two or more.

Place the small cards that you have used for the unit with the vocabulary, in this case the school unit.

Explain that one student (or two) will be team X and the other team O. They will place their mark on the grid by correctly naming the school item small card or using it in a sentence, etc. that is in chosen space. If the answer is correct that student or team will place the marker on that space covering the word.

Play continues until one student or team gets three marks in a row wither horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

Students can play multiple rounds by changing the small cards with the school items to new words.

Here is the same game with the numbers 1 to 20 small cards. Find more here: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/08/numbers-1-to-20-small-cards-for.html

 

The family unit tic tac toe. Check the blog post: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/09/family-unit-teaching-tips-for-small.html

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Toys Unit Games for the Elementary English Language Learners-Starters

 This resource is included in the Toys Unit for Elementary English Language Learners. Find more optional teachinmg material here: 

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Printable Toys unit games are a fun addition to your resource library. They are engaging and motivating for your students. Students are usually interested to actively participate in the different games available.

The board games are just print and assemble the markers. This kind of games involve strategic thinking. Students will have to describe where they land in order to move on the board.

 Print a worksheet for each student and a set of cards for each group for the descriptive sentence game. Students will have to create as many sentences as they can and draw a representation on the space provided. Award points to longer sentences. This activity contributes to language fluency as they practice constructing sentences. This is an opportunity for the students to gain confidence in using the new language.

The letter tiles are an interactive learning activity. Students can actively form words or crosswords. Print one or two templates for each group. They will learn to cooperate while putting the letters in words in order.

This toys unit quilt con contextual understanding for the students to match the pictures to the corresponding words. It is a good practice for the retention of the new vocabulary.

Sentence and picture association game is fun to use as a grammar reinforcement practice. It is a cognitive skill builder when children match descriptions with visual representation. 

There are grammar sentences available, but students can write their own. A

Many ways to play this toys unit word association game. It can be simple matching the word to the picture, memory and any other to practice turn-taking.

What about having the players construct sentences using the word or picture that are in a pile as they come up.

Pocket charts can be used for almost anything that your students need. Have the practice sentence construction and reading as the match the sentence to the picture.

More resources for the toy’s unit

https://www.pinterest.com/ei98srl/esl-toys-unit/teaching-esl-toys-unit-materials/

Toys Unit small cards for the Elementary English Language Learners-Starters

 This resource is included in Toys Unit for Elementary English language Starters located in this LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Toys-unit-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-Starters-1865563

Use the toys unit small cards for interactive learning for small group activities. Use these to encourage conversation, games and collaborative learning.    It is a great way to present vocabulary using visuals.

Found this activity for spelling practice to help memorize the key vocabulary. Print the template for each student. Have them throw the dice and count the letters in each word. Then, they write it under the corresponding dice. Students can even look up for more toys words and complete the columns.

Another die idea. Make two dice using the cards. I found a shoe box and managed to make the dice cutting up the cards.

Take a look at my die!

The idea is to throw the die and complete the spelling bingo printable. Then, start playing as you call on the words and the students tick them all to shout BINGO! It is a fun and easy way to have the students write the new words and memorize them.

Another easy idea for the students to work individually or in pairs, is to cut the word out of each card and have them match to the picture.

Guess! Place all the small cards in a stack in the middle of a group of students. They will take turns to guess which is the top card before turning it. If he/she could guess, then keeps the card. If not, the card goes to the bottom of the pack. The winner is the one with the most cards.

Use the templates for the tic tac toe and create your game:

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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.

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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.

Take a look of the ones included in this resource.

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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