Toys Unit Games for the Elementary English Language Learners-Starters

 This resource is included in the Toys Unit for Elementary school 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.

 

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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.

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More resources for the toy’s unit

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Rooms of the house Printable Games

  This TESOL and ELL resource is included in the House Unit available here: 

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These printables games will provide the house scenarios for the context that students need for language use. It is a fun and easy way to practice what they learned in a more meaningful situation, enhancing their comprehension and retention of the new language in this unit.

House Unit Sentence association game. Students will associate each picture card to the corresponding sentence. The learners will develop a better understanding of the context of the people in the house.This game can be played in small groups to promote interpersonal and collaborative skills.

Students will display the picture cards and the sentences on both sides of a desk or floor. Then, they start connecting all the cards to their corresponding sentence as they will develop a better understanding of the people in the rooms of the house. The result comes with a better comprehension and improvement of the overall language skills.

Visual Writing. Give the students the cards and have them write sentences for each one. They will write about what they see. Ask them questions about the picture to stimulate writing and their imagination. The colorful pictures are age -appropriate and relevant to the vocabulary plus grammar for the house unit. There is a clear representation of the family members and children in different rooms of the house.

Students can play matching the text that the classmates wrote to the pictures. And check  all 40 cards available: 

Descriptive sentences cards. These cards are great to practice writing clear and effective sentences that will enhance their communication skill. Display all the cards to aid students into writing a sentence. There are also blank cards to write any other word. Then, students will write their sentences and draw.

Rooms of the house Domino. The game will expose the students to the vocabulary as they match the pictures of a room scene, helping to expand the language learned.

Board games involve the use of spaces with pictures. Students will say a sentence or phrase in order to move in the board to make it even more meaningful: Brother is in the bathroom.

Pocket charts for the house unit. This works well for your visual learners. They are useful for organizing the sentences in a clear and structured manner. Students can then write the sentences on their notebooks.

Adding a game, a Bingo to review the parts of the house: chimney, roof, door and window. Students choose one house, 1,2 or 3. Display the colors that are playing the game meaning that they can only color each part in those colors. Have the calling cards available.

 Start reading any house card and have the students mark if they it in their house: This house is number 1. It is a yellow house.  It has a green chimney, a blue roof, a pink window and an orange door.

In this case the student can mark the blue roof. They keep on marking their house. The student that marks all the parts or most of the them first, wins the game.

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Family Unit Games for Elementary ELL

         This resource is included in the Family Unit for Elementary English Language Learners-Starters.   Click here:     https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Family-Activities-for-Elementary-ELL-1804475

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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Face unit Games for Elementary ELL

             This resource is included in the face unit for Elementary English Language Learners-Starters.Click here:    https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Face-Unit-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-10106986

              Games promote effective communication between peers by playing with meaningful and engaging materials.

This is a 5-minute gap-filler for your lesson plan to develop linguistic competence.  It is a Listening wrap up activity Let’s call it Hair Dictation. Hand in a copy of the people cards for the students to color as you dictate to them.

Teacher: Look at Anna, she has short curly red hair. (Continue with the other people, students can also help out saying how people look for the classmates to color)

Print a number template that can be used over and over again. Students will cut the people that they just colored. Describe which person will be in which number.

Teacher: Number 6 is a person with short straight brown hair.

Students will complete placing each person on each number.

Here is a video to clear it up:

This activity can be used to supplement the content of your course book. It is focused on the reinforcement of the vocabulary to describe eye and hair. Print the descriptive sentences cards for a group of students and a worksheet for each student. Have them prepare specific detail sentences to write on the worksheets and draw on the person template. Let your students be creative and then share their work with peers. Stuents will develop strog grammar skills.

This game is wonderful to see if your students are understanding the adjectives to write the sentences. 

Take a look at the video on how to use the game:

Playing constitutes the heart of children’s learning, and it prepares them for life.

Playing with cards is also considered a teaching tool to improve concentration and develop fluency. These can be used as a memory game to match a facial feature to a word or a matching game to play on a table or the floor.

I used this font from Creativa Fabrica. Here is the link. I am an affliate.

https://www.creativefabrica.com/product/spring-is-in-the-air-25/ref/2670802/

A board game to review the new vocabulary in a fun way to increase socialization at the same time. Print one template for every 3 or 4 students. I made the markers by opening a clip and adding a sticker. There are 4 sets of colored cards. When a student lands on a colored space, he/she grabs that colored card and answers that question in order to move. For example. I landed on a blue space, I grab a blue card and read the question: What color is his hair? I answer: blond.

Games promote a sense of achievement.

Writing with these colorful letters. Use the pictures from the game below as a guide for writing the words. Children will work alone doing this to gain self-develpment.

Or use a worksheet as a guide on how to write the words,

Use this printable as a file folder game. Students will match the phrase to the picture.

You can also do it as a cup game. Check the blog post where I have a similar game for Kindergarten. I glued the label to plastic cups and started the matching activity in a different fun way.

LINK: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2020/09/face-theme-for-kindergarten-holistic_25.html

Here is the video:

Wrap it up with a Pocket Chart Activity. Buy or make this versatile tool to enhance the learning experience of the new language as students make sentences interacting with their peers.  Students will make sentence to review the adjective word order.

Sentence Association card game for the hair and eyes on a person.

It comes with prompt cards for the students to find the corresponding picture. This will reinforce vocabulary for both hair and eye descriptions, while also practicing sentence structure.

Emphasize descriptive words by categorizing cards based on hair adjectives (e.g., curly, straight, long, short, blond, brown, black, red) Have the students do the sort under each category.

There is also a category for eye color: black, blue, green, brown.

Have students create their own sentences describing the characters, focusing on proper grammar and sentence structure.

Students take turns describing a card without showing it, while others guess which card is being described.

My example:

I'd like to say something about the spelling concept for blond or blonde. I checked the dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/blond-and-blonde-is-there-a-difference   I suggest that you use how it is on your text book. If there is a spelling that you like me to fix to suit your needs, just let me know. 

Check my other blog for Kindergarten English Language Learners.

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/