Birthday Unit Resources for Elementary ELL

  LINK to the Birthday unit resource that can be used with first graders: 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ELL-2101105

There is more for the Birthday unit here:

https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/02/birthday-unit-for-esl.html

Birthday Flashcards. Flashcards are still effective tools for the class. Plan motivating games with the theme for independent learning or for groups.

Place the flashcards on the board. Point to the cake.

Teacher: Cake. It’s a cake.

Birthday has Flashcards. A set of boys and girls going to a party with a gift and party hat or balloons. Place them on the board and write any set of numbers that you want to review. I choose from the 20’s to the 40.Ask as many questions as you can.

Teacher: What does number 21 have?

Students: He has a hat.

Teacher: What color is the hat?

Students: It is red, purple and yellow. 

Birthday Vocabulary Spelling.

Use the cupcake letter tiles to build the theme´s vocabulary words and review the ones from previous units. Each student of group of students can have a set of letters.

·       Children can line up the tiles in alphabetical order. Make it a contest.

·       Place the flashcards in a visible place and have students build the words.

·       Have children build new words in an allotted time. See which group has built the more correct words.

Birthday Cupcake small book.

Creating their own books will develop a positive attitude towards reading. In the doing, it will involve that children will be motivated as they will own a book that they will be able to read at home. It will enhance their narrative skill by telling the story to their parents.

Birthday cutouts for introducing prepositions.

Print and cutout the birthday cutouts to introduce prepositions. Place the table cutout in the middle of the board.

Teacher: What is this?

Students: It’s a cupcake.

Teacher: Where is the cupcake?

Students: It’s on the table.

Continue asking questions using all the prepositions.

Birthday cake and Numbers tracing cards.

For the lower elementary students, these tracing cards are good for reviewing. 

Birthday cake and Numbers tracing cards.

For the lower elementary students, these tracing cards are good for reviewing.

 Birthday Worksheets.

Worksheet 1. Students read and color the balloons. The worksheet can be turned into a notebook activity. Have the students glue the sentence next to each balloon.

Worksheet 2. Students read and color the boys and girls. Then they have to cut out each person and glue them next to the correct paragraph on their notebook.

Worksheet 3. I couldn’t help it when I saw these Party Animals clip art and created this worksheet that can be done in several steps or in different ways.

First, have the students color the animals as you dictate them to practice listening. It also helps to keep the pace as students have to color on the time that you give them such as a minute for each animal.  Teacher: Color the giraffe orange!

There is the cake that students color as in the paragraph that you hand in. It can be done as a diorama. Students read the paragraph and place the animals where it corresponds. I placed an opened clip behind each item. Students can take turns reading each sentence and another student has to place the animal.

It can also be done as a poster . I glued everything as in the paragraph.

or a notebook activity.

Birthday Pocket Charts.5 words and colors to make pocket charts of use them on the desk to make phrases.

There is a BUNDLE resource for the Birthday Unit. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Unit-for-Kindergarten-and-Elementary-ESL-BUNDLE-5652069

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How old are you? Numbers 1 to 10 review

I am reediting the whole Birthday unit from 2015. And let's talk about age.

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/How-old-are-you-Birthday-Unit-5197521

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First, review the numbers 1 to 10 or more numbers depending on the grade level. The big flashcards are easy to play with. I also made a smaller size set of cards for smaller groups of students.

Place all the flashcards on the board. Each flashcard has a different color. Ask questions.

Teacher: What color is number five?

Students: purple!

Teacher: What number is brown?

Students: seven!

Bring 10 students to the front of the class. Hand in the number flashcards in order. Stand behind the student with the number three flashcard.

Teacher: What number is this?

Students: three

Teacher: What number is before 3? (stand behind flashcard number 2)

Students: two!

Teacher: What number is after 3? (stand behind flashcard number 2)

Students: four!

Make spelling fun using the bottle caps. The template is free. Link:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Bottle-Caps-2155938

The numbers worksheet is for extra practice.

 Idea 1. Dictate a color for each number.

Teacher: Color number three purple!

After they are done coloring and cutting all the cards,play show me!

Teacher: Show me Number eight! What color is it?

Students: brown!

Idea 2. Have the students color each number as they wish but using all 10 colors. The students must have colored  the 10 numbers in each one of the 10 colors. Have them cut the numbers as cards before playing. Say a color and a number and the students who have them stand up or make a small group.

Teacher: red number 6! 

                                            Another worksheet!

When the worksheet is done, have the students cut all the questions and the number pictures and glue them on their notebook.

More resources and ideas on how to teach Numbers, check my other blog post: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2018/02/teaching-numbers-1-to-20-to-esl-ellsefl.html

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Halloween Activities for the ESL student

Another Halloween again! I prepared this resource with many things. Hope you like it. 

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Activities-for-ESL-4937335

Let’s start with Halloween Flashcards!

 Picture Dictionary. Hand in the 3 pages for making the picture dictionary. It is a good idea to do this in groups. This is a cut and paste activity.

I love tracing cards. It is a spelling activity that can be done using the clear plastic sheet. Just as some native language students learn to trace words in Preschool some ESL learners benefits from tracing.

I made another set of tracing cards that can work as coloring cards. Practice coloring the body parts and/or the clothes.

I made a smaller version of the tracing cards to create an accordion book.

First, I glued one card onto another.

Then, I folded all the cards into an accordion.

I traced the cover onto cardboard to make the other part of the book. I glued the first page onto the cover and the last one onto the cardboard.

Just a worksheet to place all the words in ABC order.

Spelling Bingo is always a fun game to play. Use the small cards or the Big Flashcards to call the Bingo words. Students just write a playing word in each part of the spinner. They have to cross out the word that is being called if they have it.

If Spelling Bingo is not enough. Try Spelling Scrabble. I added the Scrabble letters. I printed them onto Halloween colored paper, I chose orange and purple. I did my example using the puppets, you can use any of the small cards in the resource.

I also made worksheets with all the Halloween Characters without the face parts and for the students to color the clothes items.

Teacher: This is Dracula. He has green eyes, a small nose and funny mouth. 
Students draw as indicated.

You can also dictate how he is dressed or have them color the clothes and then describe his clothes.

Students: Dracula is wearing a black and red cape, gray pants and brown shoes.

I made all the characters into puppets using toilet paper rolls. Here are just a few and made a haunted house, it comes in two pages which you will have to glue to make a big one. I printed mine onto orange cardboard and colored the door, the windows and roof to review parts of the house.

Teacher: What color is the door?

Students: It’s brown!

Use the puppets to review the words.

Teacher: Who is he?

Students: He is the Mummy!

Teacher: Who is she?

Students: She is the Witch!

I also used the puppets to do prepositions practice.

Teacher: Where is the Devil?

Students: She is in front of the Haunted House!

 Teacher: Where is Frankenstein?

Students: He is behind the Haunted House!

Teacher: Where is the Witch?

Students: She is in the Haunted House!

Or have the students write about where the characters are.

A game board for those minutes of free play!

I taped an opened clip behind each game piece to make it stand as a marker.

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