Fruit and Veggies Booklet for Elementary ELLs.

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This mini book creation encourages creativity, writing, and personal expression. Students will be writing their own text to practice language skills, sentence structure, and vocabulary in a meaningful context. It is a way of integrating reading, writing, and art, making it a fun and educational tool for young learners.

Print the templates as the wrap up part of the 3p lesson plan.

The basket on the cover adds an artistic element, asking them to draw and color the fruit and vegetable of their preferences.

Guide your students prompts into the creative part of writing the text. Staples the pages together. In pairs, they can exchange the book and read.

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Fruit and Veggies Worksheets for Elementary ELLs.

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The worksheets focus on—fruits and vegetables—that students will encounter in real-life situations, helping them communicate more effectively in English. These worksheets use engaging activities that cater to visual learners. By including activities like matching, sorting, and labeling, the worksheets offer a hands-on, multisensory approach. Use these for the practice part of the lesson plan for your english class.

This worksheet helps students practice fruits and vegetables vocabulary. Learners read simple phrases, look at the pictures, and write the correct number, and coloring accordingly.

 

Students identify fruits and vegetables by matching pictures to numbers. As an extension, learners can color the items and write simple sentences describing each one.

Students complete missing vowels in fruit and vegetable words and then match each word to its picture.

 As an extension, learners can create a class poster by connecting the words and images, reinforcing spelling, vocabulary, and visual recognition.

This Read and Draw worksheet helps students practice reading simple sentences while drawing and coloring fruits based on color clues.

These Complete and Draw worksheets combine, color recognition, and vocabulary practice in one engaging activity.

Students review fruit and vegetable vocabulary by finding and highlighting familiar words in the word search. It supports spelling and visual scanning.

This worksheet helps students practice counting, number words, and simple sentences using familiar fruit and vegetable vocabulary.

This match and read worksheet helps students connect simple sentences with pictures while practicing numbers, vocabulary, and basic sentence structure.

This Is or Are worksheet helps students choose the correct verb and then color the matching fruits and vegetables. It reinforces basic grammar.

This cut-and-paste worksheet helps students match simple sentences with the correct fruit and vegetable pictures on their notebooks.

This What are you? / What do you have? worksheet encourages students to write simple sentences using fruit and vegetable vocabulary and colors inside speech bubbles. It supports early writing.

Revisit the face and body vocabulary in the context of the fruit and vegetable unit, giving students the chance to reinforce their understanding of previously learned words.

This worksheet helps students practice plural spelling rules for fruits and vegetables by sorting words into -s, -es, and -ies. It reinforces  spelling patterns.

In this simple writing activity, students practice forming sentences with “I want…” while identifying fruits and vegetables.

Students practice using there is and there are to describe fruits and vegetables.

Students use I like and I don’t like to express food preferences.

Students practice identifying, counting, and talking about fruits and vegetables using clear sentence models and visual support. These worksheets build confidence with simple questions and answers through repetition and meaningful context.

Interview Activity – Favorite Fruits & Vegetables

Students walk around the classroom asking classmates, “What’s your favorite fruit or vegetable?” and record the answers on their worksheets using clipboards. This speaking-and-listening activity builds confidence, encourages interaction, and practices real-life questioning skills in a fun, meaningful way.

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Fun fruit and veggies games for elementary ESL learners — engaging printable activities to practise food vocabulary, speaking  are also included in the full pack of fruit and vegetables. Go to the blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/11/fruit-and-veggies-games-for-elementary.html

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Fruit and Veggies Small Cards for Elementary ELLs.

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The fruit and vegetable small cards are easy to carry and store, making them convenient on-the-go teaching. Use the small cards for the presentaction and practice parts of the lesson plan in english.These small cards are perfect for interactive ESL activities that boost vocabulary, speaking, grammar, and language confidence. They’re ideal for centers, games, sentence building, and partner work.

The Printable Small cards encourage interactive learning. Play Guess the Card:

One student picks a card without pointing at it, and describes the fruit or vegetable for the players to guess.

Players: Is it yellow?

Student: NO!

Players: Is it a fruit or vegetable?

Student: a vegetable.

Players: Is it green?

Student: No!

Players: Is it a carrot?

Student: Yes, it is!

Small cards can be used for different skill levels by adjusting the activities. Practice grammar (singular/plural). Students can just write the word for beginners or write more complex sentence building for advanced students). 

Small cards allow students to practice independently by writing the words on a small board.

Play Circle the other words within a fruit and vegetable word. There are several. Students write the word on the card and then find the other word such as this example: pear, there is the word ear.

Give each student a "bingo" board with spaces to write any of the fruit and vegetables. The teacher calls out the fruit and vegetables using the small cards, and students crosses out the words they hear.

Matching Pairs with Flashcards. Use the small cards and larger flashcards together. Students match the small cards to the corresponding large flashcards as quickly as possible.

 Students categorize the small cards into "fruits" and "vegetables". This can be done in pairs or groups as a race.

Use the small cards in sentence-building activities. For example, "I like bananas,". Here is the video:

Why Teachers Love These Small Cards

✅ Perfect for centers & hands-on learning
✅ Supports speaking, listening, and grammar practice
✅ Works with mixed-level ESL groups
✅ Great for pair and group activities

These cards help transform vocabulary memorization into meaningful language use, encouraging students to talk and interact!

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Fruit and Veggies Flashcards for Elementary ELLs.

 This resource (Fruit and Vegetables Flashcards for Elementary ELLs) is included in the full pack resource. LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

Print the flashcards to provide strong visual cues to help ELLs connect the fruit and vegetables words with the images. Flashcards make it easy to repeat and reinforce vocabulary, which is essential for language retention in ELLs. The flashcards offer an opportunity for students to practice pronunciation, sentence formation, and simple phrases. Use these for the presentation part of the  english class lesson plan. These are perfect for beginner to early intermediate learners.

What is this? What are these?

Lay out several fruit and vegetables flashcards, some with singular items and others with plural items. Ask questions to help them notice the difference  between singular and plural. Support the pronunciation.

Teacher: "What is it?" Students: It’s an onion.

Teacher: "What are these?"  Students: They are onions.

Show a flashcard and ask about the items: "Is it a tomato?" or "Are they tomatoes?" The students respond appropriately as they position the card under the correct heading. Encourage students to form full sentences.

Talk about the adjectives of colors to describe food items. Integrate speaking, listening, and categorizing activities.

Show a pear flashcard and have students say a full sentence: "The pear is green"

Do the same with the grapes: The grapes are purple.

Proceed to sort the flashcards by colors on the board.

Students can practice grouping by type (fruit vs. vegetable), enhancing their critical thinking and categorization skills. Show some flashcards and ask the students if it’s a fruit or a vegetable and sort it accordingly.

Counting & Sentence Building. How many? Practice both counting and forming correct sentences using singular and plural forms.

Show flashcards with different numbers of fruits or vegetables. Count with your students the number of items in each one.

Ask the students to make sentences using "There is" for one item or "There are" for multiple items.

Teacher: "How many carrots are there?"

Students:  "There are eight carrots."

To talk about favorite fruit and veggie. Ask about preferences.

Ask the students, "What is your favorite fruit?" and "What is your favorite vegetable?"

They choose the flashcard of their preference and say: "My favorite fruit is pear."

What’s your favorite vegetable?

 Ask and answer questions about what you like. Engage students in interactive speaking exercises.

Student 1: Do you like broccoli?

Student 1: No, I don’t.

Introduce to your students that it is "oranges" in plural because it refers to oranges in general, not a specific orange.

Student 1: Do you like oranges?

Student 1: Yes, I do.

Practice sentences using "and" as a coordinating conjunction to connect two items.

Show how to use the conjunction "but" to show contrast between two ideas.

Practice Agreeing with "Too"

Make statements with have to describe possession of fruit and veggies.

Ask the class, "Who has an apple?"
Students: Vilma! Vilma has a big apple.

Talk about things you have and don't have. Understand and use simple present affirmative and negative.
Teacher: What does Lili have?
Students: She has two red apples.
Teacher: Who has a green pencil?
Students: The pineapple.

Offering things to each other. I want--, please.

I have another resource with just 4 fruit and 4 vegetables for more of a beginners level. Here is the link:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetable-beginners-for-Elementary-ELL-2371980

If you loved the Fruit and Veggies Flashcards, you’ll enjoy the Small Cards version too! These small cards are perfect for interactive ESL activities that boost vocabulary, speaking, grammar, and language confidence. They’re ideal for centers, games, sentence building, and partner work. All in the same pack, go to the blog post:

https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/10/fruit-and-veggies-small-cards-for.html

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