Prepositions and the School Unit for Elementary ELL

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This resource uses a crayon and a crayon box. It aligns with the  school supplies, or classroom objects, making it a versatile tool for reinforcing learning throughout the school year.

Introduce prepositions using the flashcards and writing the sentences on the board: The crayon is on the crayon box.

Use the opportunity to write questions on the board and have the students ask more questions for the class to answer: Where is the crayon?

Flashcards offer clear visual cues, which helps students grasp the meaning of prepositions more easily. Cut the word out of each flashcard and have the students match to the image.

Small cards give students flexibility to create a variety of sentences, encouraging creativity. They will write a text that you give a prompt or they show their creativity.

Students must carefully listen and follow instructions: Put the blue crayon on the crayon box. I suggest that you have the cutouts ready. I glued the crayon box onto a toilet paper roll.

Visual and kinesthetic learners can see and manipulate the crayons in various positions relative to the box, reinforcing spatial concepts through movement and observation. Students can also make their sentences for the classmates to recreate.

Teacher: The crayon is under the crayon box.

As students work with the resource, they’ll also reinforce color vocabulary, by printing the worksheets.

Rolling the die adds a game-like element to color the preposition images on the worksheet, motivating students to actively participate. The die and worksheet can be used for solo practice or in pairs.

More worksheets to complete the practice section of your lesson plan.

The matching mat allows students to link visual cues with written prepositions, reinforcing vocabulary.

Have the puzzle ready to give students a hands-on way to construct sentences, helping them understand prepositions. 

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Birthday Unit Small Cards for Elementary ELLs

  This resource is included in The Birthday Unit:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-5279726

Birthday unit small cards offer a quick and engaging way to review the new vocabulary related to birthdays. Find these easy to store, prepare, and reuse, which reduces preparation time.

Enhance both language development and classroom interaction. The cards can be used for various activities such as Point to.

Teacher: Point to the balloon!

Just like this:

If you don’t have a pointer in hand, have the students pick up the card as you name it: It’s a blue cake.

Using the cards in activities like sentence-building activities is engaging and fun for the students. They can write a sentence for each small card on a white board using colorful markers.

Learners that are ready can write even more complex sentences.

You can draw a picture of a birthday item and have the class guess what it is: It’s a candle! Students can play the game in pairs or small groups using the cards.

Listen!

The cards allow teachers to cater to different levels by adjusting the complexity of the tasks such as pair matching for beginners. Students will match the preposition word to the corresponding picture. Just cut the word out of each card. This kind of activity will help develop students’ cognitive skills, including concentration and recall of the location words.

 

Speaking opportunity!

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Birthday Unit Flashcards for Elementary ELLs

 This resource is included in The Birthday Unit: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-5279726

The birthday unit is important to introduce students to essential vocabulary related to birthdays. This vocabulary is used in everyday conversations.

Print the flashcards to help your students associate the vocabulary with visual images, making it easier for them to remember new vocabulary.

Have the students identify the party objects using the flashcards: hat, balloon, cake, presents, card, candle.

Ask students: What can you see?

Students: I see a present.

Reviewing colors helps reinforce color vocabulary. Place two flashcards and ask: What color is this balloon?

Students: It’s orange!

Focus on colors to encourage the students to observe and describe objects in greater detail: What color are the candles?
Students: blue, purple, green!

Show a single flashcard with one present and say, “This is a present. It is yellow.” Then, show a flashcard with several presents and say, “They are presents. They are green and blue.”

Sorting the birthday objects.

Create two columns on the board labeled “It is” and “They are”. Show a flashcard and ask students to decide if it goes under “It is” or “They are.” Place the card in the correct column and have students say the corresponding sentence: It’s a card.

Reinforce that "there is" is used with singular nouns (one object), while "there are" is used with plural nouns (more than one object).

Teacher: "There is one cake". "There are five balloons."

Incorporate the numbers 1 to 10 using the flashcards. Birthdays often involve talking about age, and students need to be comfortable with numbers to express how old they are or how old someone else is.

Birthdays often involve counting items like candles on a cake, balloons, or gifts. Have the students accurately count and talk about these items using the flashcards.

Teachers: How cupcakes are there?

Students: One, two, three, for, five! Five cupcakes.

Ask and answer about age.

Start by teaching the basic question structure: “How old are you?

Show a birthday flashcard with a picture of a boy or girl with a number corresponding to the age and ask students: How old is he?

Students: He’s eight!

Introduce new structures: Today is Anna’s Birthday. She’s nine years old.

Have the students say more sentences using the rest of the flashcards.

To express likes and dislikes.
Teacher: I like cake! I don’t like balloons!
Make an emphasis on the final s.
Ask your students about their preferences and place that flashcard on the board and you can even graph the party objects.

People do different actions in a party. Use any tense that you want.

Teacher: What is he doing?
Students: He is opening a present.

Teach the phrase “Whose birthday is it?” by modeling it several times. Place several flashcards on the board and ask, "Whose birthday is it?"

Students: "It's Ann's birthday."

Explain the ‘s to indicate possession. Make stick puppets ‘s to make it easier for the students to grasp the rule.

Talk about the location of objects.
Use the flashcards to demonstrate prepositions like "in front of," "behind," "next to," "on," and "under":
Prepare the cutouts to place the candle flashcard in different positions relative to the cupcake flashcard. Show each position flashcard and then the students will repeat the location using the cutouts.
Teacher: "The candle is on the cupcake."
Invite students to prepare their own cutouts using the template provided and move the cutouts themselves, using the correct prepositions in sentences.

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Toys Unit Robots for the Elementary English Language Learners-Starters

Teachers Aide can use the materials to prepare the 3ps lesson plan. This resource is sold separately at this link:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Robots-and-Prepositions-for-the-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-11646042

Teaching prepositions to your learners is crucial for constructing basic sentences. Students will learn to describe locations between the robot and a box.

Show a flashcard with a preposition (in, on, under, behind, in front of, next to, between) and pronounce it clearly. Have the students repeat after you as you show the relation between the robot and the box. All the images are relatable to the unit. Show a flashcard and ask students to identify the preposition. Encourage them to make sentences using the illustrated scene after you model one: The robot is in front of the box.

Reinforce with the Robot Prepositions Worksheets: have the students learn the correct use of prepositions for writing grammatically correct sentences.

Print several dice and have them ready for the stduents to color the word and robot according to the picture that shows up.

This is a matching worksheet that provides a list of sentences with all the prepositions and a set of robot pictures. Students will have to draw a line from each sentence to the correct robot.

Find Fill-in-the-Blanks with a preposition worksheet. There is also a review of the parts of the face worksheet.

Play a memory game where students find the matching pairs.

Use the cutouts to prepare this fun activity to help improve listening and speaking. Plan your Interactive Demonstration by gluing the colored cutouts to a box or any other item and a robot to a craft stick. Students should do the same with their cutouts after coloring them.  Ask the students to describe the position of the objects using the prepositions: The robot is in the box.

a video to check!

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