Family unit Worksheets for the ESL

       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

The worksheets can be an assessment tool for you to identify if there is a gap in the learning process of this unit. Use them as an effective supplement for your textbooks.  Take a look at the all the worksheets that you can find on the resource.

Labeling worksheets are for your students to support writing.Students love to move on to worksheets with the cute family members. 

Some students just need a little help to develop writing in English. Here is a simple tracing worksheet. This one is with mother and father, and I included another worksheet with mom and dad. I can write any word that you are using in your teaching.

Playing Picture Bingo improves family members recognition and their facial features. They will have fun and lower their anxiety factor in class. Have the students color the hair in any of the playing colors by using the small cards included in the resource. Those will be your calling cards.

Teacher: Mother has brown hair! If the student has it, he/she will cross it out. The winner is the one to cross all the family members.

Adding adjectives to express the physical characteristics of the family members can be challenging for the newcomers. Practice using young and old and tall short to make more meaningful the way to talk about the people. This is a set of sorting worksheets. Students will cut any of the worksheets and paste where it corresponds. They can draw or bring pictures of their family members and sort accordingly.

Let’s go for a crossword fun to improve independent learning.

Engage students into writing the real names of their family members. Then, Let’s work on sentence construction to develop the linguistic competence. On a paper or notebook students can write sentences about their families as my example.

Promote active learning with this worksheet.

Students will complete the sentence and will be a prompt for extra writing.

Reading simple sentences and matching to the correct picture and write the corresponding name will model proper writing.

Another worksheet to use for reading short sentences as part of the the reading instruction routine.

Adding a little spice to the writing part, there two dice. One with long hair for women and another with short hair for men. Throw the dice, complete the sentences and color accordingly.

Students will draw their family and write a short description.Ask them questions about the drawing: Who's this? What's his/hername?

Use the designed questionnaires, there are three to choose from, such as “How many people are there in your family?" You can prepare a bar graph on the board. Challenge your students to compete in two teams to see who can collect the most survey responses within a given time limit. Give an award and count the answers.

I am including two old worksheets for this unit. 

 

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Day 7 of the 31 days of Halloween 2020 New Resources for ESL or EFL Students

 LINK to the Halloween resource: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/31-days-of-Halloween-for-Kindergarten-and-Elementary-ESL-6087756

                                       

Day 7.  Tracing cards and feed me box!!  

The tracing cards are meant to be used with students that starting to write in their mother tongue and are ready to try to do it in English. There is a colored versión that can be used with a clear plastic sheet or laminated. With a dry erase marker all the words can be traced.

 

There is the black and white versión in which students can color the pictures and trace the words. Then cut into cards.

I made a feed me box, it has been a great activity for the little ones. I used a cereal box.

Students will feed the Jack-O-Lantern with the cards that has the ítem that you name or call.
Teacher: Feed the Jack-O-Lantern the pail.

The magnetic letters can be pulled out again for writing using the cards.

Make puzzles!

I am sure you can think of more games and activities, leave me your idea below. A printable book for the Halloween Unit!

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Seasons Unit FREE Resources for Elementary ESL

          LINK to this FREE Product: 
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Unit-for-ESL-students-5403227     

                              
As you might have seen I created a complete Seasons Unit  Resources. The blog posts included: Seasons and Months, Seasons and Weather, Seasons and Clothes, Seasons and Nature, Seasons and Activities(verbs).
LINK:https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/03/seasons-and-verbs-for-esl.html
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 https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ESL-1744981

                                  Let’s start with Flashcards.

                           Introduce Grammar points.

Tracer book: It helps extend the vocabulary. There is a black and white version for the students to color and create their own book to take home.

When the students finish tracing the sentences on their books, start reading. Assign a color to identify each sight word.

Teacher: Circle the word “it” red.

Teacher: Circle the word “is” blue.

Teacher: Circle the word “a” yellow.

Help the students assemble the book. I made this one by punching a hole on the side and connected using a metal ring. Read again using a straw as a pointer, have them look for specific words.

Teacher: Look for the word “Spring”. Use your pointer. 

                   A set of matching words and pictures cards.

Students in groups can match each picture to each word.

Another game: Have the students place all the cards face up on the table. Say a word and have them find the word and the picture.

Teacher: Find “sun”.

Students: sun!  Student shows the picture and the word.

Paper plates are great for sorting the vocabulary words into seasons. Write each Season word on each paper plate.

I found this game and gave it a try. Let me know if you liked it.

There is a sunscreen lotion clipart to make a card holder. You can use it to play a guessing game by slowly taking a card out and having the children guess what it is.

Spelling BINGO! Spelling is related to the students’ reading and writing abilities. Give students the template and ask them to write 6 of all the words of their choice. You can use the matching cards as calling cards. Students cross out the words called out. The winner is the first one to cross the 6 words.

Some worksheets for extra practice.

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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 party vocabulary Flashcards. They 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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