Toys Unit Worksheets for the Elementary English Language Learners-Starters

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Worksheets can be used for differentiationand provide extra practice. Tailor to meet the needs of each student in class with this variety of worksheets. The worksheets can challenge and support all your learners during your practice part of the lesson plan. Here is a video with the worksheets included in the resource to give you a variety of exercise types to practice the skills that your students need the most.

There is a set of toys unit vocabulary words that will allow your students to practice and reinforce the new content. Here is one with words for the students to draw around them to give meaning. Drawing help to deepen the understanding of the new words. It requires critical thinking as to how to represent it visually.

More repetition as students write all the words into the letter shapes that the words start with. This process enhances comprehension and reinforcement of vocabulary retention. Send it for homework.

Read and match worksheet. Basically, a reading comprehension worksheet to exercise critical thinking to analyze the incomplete words and make a connection.

Another reading comprehension worksheet set that will promote higher thinking skills in your learners. Here is an example for the students to identify the colors of the objects.

Expand the worksheet to other themes. Have the students cut the teddy bear and glue onto their notebooks or paper and label the parts of the face.

Review the numbers 1 to 10 and the teen numbers with the robots.

There are several worksheets for answering questions using grammar knowledge.

The favorite toy worksheet can lead to a speaking activity. When all the worksheets are done, have the children walk around and find another student or group of students with the same favorite toy. Then, graph the results.

Teacher: How many trains are the favorite ?

Students: five!

The favorite toy worksheet can lead to a speaking activity. They will draw their favorite toy and write a short text. When all the worksheets are done, have the children walk around and find another student or group of students with the same favorite toy. Stand together. Then, graph the results.

Teacher: How many trains are the favorite?

Students: two!

Questionnaires are a very effective instructional tools to have your students communicate. Encourage them to survey classmates even the shy ones.

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Reading for Kindergarten EFL

 So much to read on this topic that can be useful to our particular English Language Learner that is in Kindergarten and learning to read their own mother tongue language and attempting to read another new language. I just gathered a few statements and tips to get you started. 

That's a picture of me during a read aloud activity at a local school many years ago. The editorial had these big books which are wonderful for big classes.

Teaching to read in English to these very young learners start with learning the sounds. Do you have the instruction for reading the sounds? Then, just fine. If you don't, then read a little about it to gain the knowledge to help your students as much as you can.

As I create the lesson plan, I put a big emphasis on listening and speaking activities, new vocabulary and using it along old vocabulary.  I also plan a reading activity for each unit as a book that students put together. It can be read in class and sent them home for the students to read with their parents. You won't have to worry about the book getting lost or damaged. Read the book that you made in class or any other that you have from your library. Here is an example of one of the books, you can reread the books over and over again.

                         This is how the big book looks inside.

It is important to show the students the pictures and ask questions, such as What is this? and show the print as you read, point to the words.  Many students are able to memorize parts of the story and encourage them to read with you. There is always a prediction part in each story, just point it out and have your students predict what will happen next.

                 Hope these tips will help you out in your class to understand and use the language. 

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School Unit for Elementary English Language Learners

 LINK to the FREE School Unit resource for Elementary English Language Learners: 

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This resource comes with 24 small School Unit flashcards. Use them to have your students identify the school supplies.

Here are some Flashcards Ideas to introduce or review the classroom or school objects vocabulary.

1. Who has it ?  Game : pass out all the school flashcards to some students in the class. Call out a word that is on a card. The student with that card has to stand up, show the card and say the word. Continue with all the playing cards.

2.  YES or NO puppets: Make the puppets by printing the template onto cardboard and gluing a craft stick behind each puppet.

Hold up a school flashcard and ask: Is it a (table) ?

Prompt the students to nod(YES) or shake(NO) their heads and answer YES or NO.  And you can also use the YES and NO puppet.

If the answer is YES, have them repeat: Yes, It´s a pen.(Show the yes puppet)

If the answer is NO, have them repeat NO, it isn´t a table. It's a crayon. (Show the NO puppet)

3. Review or Evaluation:

Place on the board  or table a flashcard. Say a word or sentence. Have the child point to the flashcard. 

Teacher: eraser. It´s an eraser.

Student:( Points) eraser.

Put a different pair of flashcards and repeat.

Teacher: board. It´s a board.

Student:( Points) board.

Teacher: Very Good.

The prize or reward for your students. Print and tape a safety pin behind each prize. As each student masters the flashcards give the prize.

4. Another Game: Display all the flashcards with a number under each one. The teacher or the student names a flashcard in a random order and the class says the number . Then say a number  and the class says the flashcard word or a sentence: The scissors are red.

Bingo Game: 

Distribute the blank bingo grid to each student. Have the students fill in 7 school words. Draw a random card and call it out so that the student can look for the word in their bingo grid and cross it off. When a student  has  crossed out all the words , he or she calls out  BINGO !  

Also make your call out Bingo folder. I made two sets, a black and white one and a colored version. Print the black and white small cards  onto colored  paper and the colored set onto white paper. As you call out the words just place them on the folder where they belong. Using this system children can play  in small groups.

 School theme book:

Give students the chance to read. Read to them or have them read after they know the vocabulary words. This is a decodable book that builds on previously taught words, helping students gain confidence and fluency. You can conduct guided reading so students can follow along, make as many copies as needed, maybe one for 2 students. Have students reread with their partner.  It can be used on electronics as a pdf file.

               

           There is another book.

School unit Task cards: make the  copies need. Laminate for further use. Display a set of cards to each group of 4 or 6 students. 

Students select their task card and write the answer in their notebook in the order of their preference.

This is a school unit memory matching game. It can be used to assess the students by connecting the cards. Print the sets of cards, one with pictures and another with the names of the school objects. Divide the class into groups of no more than 4. Hand each group a set of cards. Have the students spread the cards facing up on the table and take turns connecting the corresponding names and pictures. The student who correctly connects the most pairs of cards wins. 

 school unit Pocket charts: so many uses in the classroom, get one because I´ll be posting many ideas. This is a simple matching the phrase to the picture. After they finish students can write all phrases in their notebooks.

Let’s start by introducing the Prepositions Flashcards.

Here are some examples on how to use the flashcards to introduce the grammar structures: 

 

  I prepared a School unit sentence association game. I did it in a different way this time. I placed the pictures pages in a clear sheet and then cut all the sentences into cards. The aim of the game is to match the sentence card to each picture.

Watch the video on how to use the game. The game can be done placing the sentences in the clear sheets and the cards will be the pictures.

The school unit cutouts! Now when distance learning is on demand, I researched that most teachers use cutouts. I love cutouts. I started using them when teaching with the book Sprinkles. The cutouts can be used for many things.

The cutouts can be used on the board. I made two examples. But the cutouts are great for using them within your lesson plan.

Give the students the cutouts and have them place them where they want and say a sentence. It a nice speaking activity. My children did it for me, I did not make any corrections. Watch the video.

Here is the picture of the end of the activity, I had to trim the video. Have the students draw their own picture inspired on the cutouts activity. Then, write a description.

Sometimes holding the cutouts with your hand might be complicated if you are doing distance learning. I glued a craft stick behind each cutout and made a short VIDEO demonstration on how to teach using the cutouts. Obviously, have the students repeat after you. Then, ask questions as you put up the cutouts.

 Make a school unit book. The students read the sentences and complete the book by gluing the school items where they belong.

Watch the video and see how I put it together. Have the students read the book using a pointer:

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