Free Resources for the Elementary ELL

 I have several freebies for you! They are part of the permanent collection at the Teachers pay Teachers  store. There are other freebies that I post for only a few days, so take a look once you are there. LINK to the store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Holistic-English-Resources-By-Rosa-Amelia

FREEBIE 1: This is an easy printable book for the early beginners.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Apple-Book-for-Kindergarten-EFL-1237468

Remember to leave a comment after you download the resource to get extra credits at the TPT store for when you want to make any purchase. Also leave comments for any other resource that you have downloaded either free or paid from any other seller in the store and grab your extra credits.

FREEBIE 2: This is a free resource for the Beach Unit. It comes with Beach Numbers 1 to 12 flashcards, and a printable sentence association game.

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Beach-Numbers-for-Elementary-EFL-4079286#show-price-update

It is part of the Beach Resource for Elementary ESL Students.https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2018/09/beach-unit-for-elementary-esl-learners.html

Freebie #3. As EFL Teachers we should have little Birthday Certificates to give away. Just print and fill them out ahead of time and ready to hand in throughout the school year. There is more to this free resource. Check out the blog post and follow the LINK! 

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2013/02/birthday-theme.html

Freebie #4. Community Helpers Flashcards in Spanish. I know that many teachers need flashcards in Spanish, which is my native language. I can make more upon request. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Community-Helpers-Flashcards-in-Spanish-5619518

take a look!

Freebie # 5. There is a group of teachers that need Flashcards in Spanish. I made these available for FREE, but I will accept requests for any other theme of flashcards that you might need. Download your flashcards here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/El-Clima-Flashcards-The-Weather-Flashcards-in-Spanish-5342516

Freebie # 6. Easy to print and put together Family Members Puppets. Here is the link to download the file.   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Family-Unit-Puppets-4824345

Here is a closer look of the puppets.

Freebie # 7. Getting your students ready to write their name on worksheets, handouts or anything else. Here are 3 FREE worksheets to introduce the name. CLICK here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Name-Worksheets-for-the-Kindergarten-EFL-2836216

Here is the link to the blog post: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2016/10/name-worksheets-for-preschool-ela.html

Freebie #8. I made a new resource for the same Seasons unit and just put this one for FREE to use with your Elementary English Language Learners. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-5403227 

It includes: Seasons Flashcards, Spelling Bingo, Tracer Book, Picture and words cards, worksheets,clothes book. Check the blog post: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/04/seasons-unit-free-resources-for.html

Freebie #9. This is a short printable book for the end of the school year that wraps up the units worked on. Download it here for FREE: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/All-About-Me-For-Elementary-EFL-5934773

Here is a video on the book.

Freebie #10. These simple like plates are great to sort the fruit likes or the food items likes. You can even use it for the pets likes or any other. I used paper plates and the cutouts. It is free!!!   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-likes-plates-2357249

Freebie #11.There are many spelling activities that you can do with the bottle caps. The template is for FREE. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Bottle-Caps-2155938

Freebie #12. This is a resource that can go along your Birthday Unit. Just balloons! It includes: Number balloons Flashcards from 1 to 10, a Class Book and a Memory Game. All in black and White and colored versión.

Get it for free:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Balloon-Theme-for-Kindergarten-EFL-854092

Freebie #13. End of the school year props for pictures.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/End-of-the-School-Year-Photo-Booth-for-Teachers-8048685

I will add more freebies to this list so check back often and also on social media. Follow me!!

Greetings and Introductions

This is an old resource but many teachers still download it for free.

 Link to the FREE Greeting Unit resource: 
https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/greetings-resources-for-kinder-and-elementary-esl?variant=36125058105508

Watch the video:

Hello !

                  Make some people puppets. It can be paper bag puppets or finger puppets. Send me an Email requesting the templates for these for free.(ei98srl@gmail.com)
Hold them up and have them greet each other, modeling  the expressions: Hi and Hello.

       Have students come to the front of the class and greet them.

       Teacher: Hello, Gabriel. (shake student´s hand.)  Encourage the student to answer.

        Student: Hello, teacher.

Continue greeting students individually. Have other students greet each other.

Write the Word Hello on the board. Read the word aloud as you point to it.  Ask students to read it aloud individually and then chorally. Continue with more greeting expressions.

Here´s my Hello Hand worksheet. After tracing the words, cut the hands and make Greetings puppets.

   Greeting Chain: say Hello to a student. Then have that student say hello to the student sitting behind. Continue, in a chain, until all the students have greeted  and have been greeted.

What´s your name ?

Teach the name structure Using tpr. TPR is a language teaching technique which means Total Physical Response. It coordinates language and movements by giving instructions and the students performing them. It helps with a higher retention of the vocabulary or structures taught and develops language fluency.

Model using gestures as you to convey meaning:

Shrug your shoulders for WHAT ?

Point to the student  for YOUR

Trace a circle on your body  for  NAME or point to the name tag if you made them.

Make a name badge  for you and for your students. Point to your name badge and say your name.

 Point to a student and have him/her stand up and say My 

name´s ______ pointing to his/her name badge.

Game: Ask students as a class: What´s your name? and have them all shout out their names holding up their name tags.

Use the Greeting puppets.

Puppet: Hello ! What´s your name ?

Puppet: Hi! My name´s Ann. What´s your name ?

 Puppet: My name´s Bill.

Two other students can come to the front and role play using their own names. Have the students greet each other by shaking hands, model for them if necessary.

Explain that the longer  version  is My name is and the shorter one is My name´s. Write it on the board. And repeat the dialogue using the longer version.

                                Introduce the people at school: boy, girl, teacher.

Game 2: write the word.

Hi, Hello, boy, girl, What, ´s, is, your , name, my.

Make as many copies as you need for your class. Make groups and hand the letters. Say a word and have the students find the letters and make the word by standing up with the letters in order. Give a point to the first group to do so. I glued each letter onto a craft stick for easy handling.

Students can make a big version of all the words on a big construction paper or a smaller version on their notebooks. Here are the letters in a black and white version. Use the opportunity to review the alphabet by assigning a color to each letter.
Teacher: letter a is blue.
 Students color all the letter a in blue. Continue with more directions.

Gather pictures of famous people or Tv characters that children can relate to. Put any of these pictures on the board and a speech bubble next to it. Write My name´s ______ in the speech bubble. Have students name the character and write the name in speech bubble. Then have students read the  speech bubble.  Continue with all the pictures that you brought to class.

I glued the pictures onto fun foam and a craft stick. For the speech bubble , I printed it onto colored paper, placed clear contact paper and glued onto fun foam and craft stick as well. The, I wrote with a white board marker and erased it with baby wipes.

Use the pictures to introduce His/ Her name is _____. 
What´s his/her name ?

 I created a Name Graph Worksheet as seen on PINnterest.   You can use the larger worksheet as a group letter counting in a name. The smaller sheets are for individual letters in a name counting.

Another worksheet that can be used as a frame for younger learners.

What if children draw you and write your name.

Teacher: What is my name ?

Students: Your name is ______.

There is another blog post with more for the greeeting and Introductions. https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/06/greetings-and-farewwells-resource-this.html