Town Unit Games for elementary ESL

 This resource for any ESL Instructor is included in Town Flashcards at this Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Town-Flashcards-and-more-for-Elementary-ESL-3713783

Print the Town Unit games to create excitement and curiosity, making students more eager to learn and participate. Students repeatedly hear, see, and use town-related words, improving retention.

Town-Themed Card Game (Picture & Word). Students will connect written words with visual representations, improving retention and perfect for visual learners.

Match Pairs by spreading the picture cards and word cards face up. Players match a picture with its corresponding word. The player with the most matches wins!

Using letter tiles in your town unit gives students a hands-on way to practice spelling, phonics, and vocabulary. Students form town-related words by arranging tiles. Play Word Building Challenge: Provide students with a set of letter tiles. Say and show a town-related word ("PARK"), and students race to spell it with their tiles. Another option is to make crosswords in teams.

"Town Map Placement" Game. It builds listening & comprehension skills. It helps students process and respond to spoken instructions.
Students must think logically to place cards correctly. Students practice placing locations on a realistic town layout.

There are three printable streets as a hands-on, interactive way for students to learn prepositions, directions, and sentence structure. One student gives verbal instructions while another listens and places the buildings accordingly.

 Encourages Writing Practice when your students write sentences describing their town map. One student reads or creates a sentence using a location card (e.g., “The bank is next to the supermarket”). Students take turns being the dictator and the map builder. Students take turns being the dictator and the map builder.

Encourage Speaking & Listening using a board game. The players ask and answer questions (e.g., “Where is your car?” → “My car is at the supermarket.”).

Players roll a die and move their car marker along the town-themed board. The player must say the name of the place before ending their turn.

A variation is a Question & Answer Challenge. When landing on a space, players must answer a question: “Where is your car?” → “It is at the restaurant.”

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Transportation Games for Elementary ELL

 This resource for any Literacy Teacher, is included in the Transportation unit for Elementary ESL at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Transportation-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-4049752

The Transportation games turn learning into an enjoyable experience, keeping students interested and eager to participate. Bring in games that are not done on a flat screen!

Board games support visual learners who benefits from a road colorful path, tokens, and cards. The kinesthetic learners will love to move car pieces along the road.

Domino style game aims to match transportation adjective phrases with the images. It can be played alone or with a partner.

The pocket chart cards are great to review key grammar points, such as the adjectives. It can be as easy as matching the picture to the word as in my example below. Move on to adding an adjective card to describe a vehicle.

Place a vehicle card in the pocket chart. Challenge the students to add as many adjectives as possible to describe that transportation object.

Students remember grammar structures through engaging gameplay. Have the students use the cards to mark the adjectives in their comparative and superlative form. They can also write sentences on their notebooks.

Key matching game. This kind of game will encourage students to communicate naturally in English.
Print and have ready a set of cards for every 2 or 4 students. They will shuffle the cards and hand out 6 or 8 cards depending on the size of the group. Let them know that the card with the keys is a card to match any other card.
They will hold the cards without letting their partners see them. They can make pairs (pictures and words) if they are lucky to have them and display on the table.
The game starts as a student 1ask another: Do you have a plane?
Student 2: Yes, I do! (hands in the card)
Student 1 displays the card match.
Students can play without direct teacher involvement. One student writes several transportation words backwards using the cards and another will write them correctly.
The set of cards can also be used as a Memory matching games to spark excitement as students try to find pairs with a word and a picture.

Give students just a few minutes to make as many words related to the transportation unit using the letters provided. The student with the most words wins!

Have one student write the transportation words backwards using the cards and the other will write them on paper in the correct way.

Write sentences. Hand in a template of the worksheets for the students to make complete sentences. They will cut up the words and put the words into the boxes to form the sentences. If you just want to cut printing cost, have the students write the words on the spaces on the worksheet, using the words cutout as a guide.

In pairs, students can check each other work and see if they have similar sentences and if they are correct.

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Playground Games for Elementary ESL

  This resource is included at the Playground, Park, Recess Theme for Elementary ELL at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Playground-Park-Recess-Theme-for-Elementary-ELL-2073587

The games ensure a well-rounded approach to teaching the playground vocabulary. Use these to keep students actively involved in learning.

Students must analyze and match the correct domino pieces. This game appeals to visual learners (pictures) and kinesthetic learners (handling and placing dominoes).

Add fun by setting a timer and challenge small groups to complete the domino chain as quickly as possible. This adds excitement and focus!

Print the puzzle for the students to repeatedly see and connect written playground words with visuals, strengthening their ability to recognize and read new words.

A simple spelling activity to play in pairs or small groups. Use the game to promote teamwork, communication, and turn-taking, building social and conversational skills.

A dice and the game board pieces to start. Students will answer questions about the pictures on the cards of the color they landed on. This improves their ability to describe, name, or use vocabulary in sentences.

Students practice constructing sentences, reinforcing proper word order and grammar using playground-related vocabulary.

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Fruit and Veggies Games for Elementary ELLs.

 This resource is included in The Fruit and Vegetables level 1 for Elementary ELLS.LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

 Playing games gives students plenty of opportunities to speak, listen, and understand food-related vocabulary in context, which reinforces language skills. Use these for the productuve parts of the lesson plan for your english class.

Foster collaborative learning as students work effectively in groups to put together this puzzle. Use the game to help with reading fluency and word recall. Solving puzzles requires focus and persistence.

Teachers can easily adjust the difficulty of the games to match students’ language proficiency. Students can simply draw what is described in the cards. More advanced students can create more sentences and say more fruit and vegetables to draw.

Students practice reading sentences using the grammar point: There is /There are and the comprehension by identifying the correct fruit or vegetable to draw using the B/W version or the colored one.

Most games are designed for minimal prep, allowing teachers to implement it quickly and with minimal setup. Writing out the names of fruits and vegetables helps students practice spelling, reinforcing correct letter sequences and word formation.

Students can work in small groups by following the path along the board. Players have opportunities to listen carefully to instructions, answer to questions to the cards out loud, enhancing oral language development. Students will win the coin points if they answer correctly. The student with the most points wins.

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Birthday Unit Games for Elementary ELLs

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

Birthday games introduce vocabulary and phrases related to a real-life context (birthdays), making language learning more meaningful and relatable. The playful nature of games can reduce anxiety in ELLs.Use thses for the production part of lesson planning for english language learners.

Fun games such as domino can help maintain motivation. This Birthday-themed game allows students to match images with the corresponding word. It is a way to reinforce word recognition.

Birthday Puzzle games offer repeated exposure to the new vocabulary making it easy to retain new words through play. As students put the puzzle together, they can be encouraged to verbalize what they are matching.

Board games involve interaction and collaboration between peers. There are two cards that prompt players to answer the question. The other cards are for moving one space or going back.

Spelling Games can incorporate visual, and kinesthetic elements. Provide students with the printable cut-out letters in the shape of birthday-themed items balloons and candles. Use these for various spelling games where students arrange the letters to spell vocabulary words  based on the small cards, puzzles, etc.

As an extra spelling activity have the students do word shapes. Give the learners math paper with the squares. The letters that are within the lines have to be represented by a square and the other letters that go above the line should be a rectangle to fit them. Prepare an example for the class. A fun way to see how each word represents a shape.

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