Free Resources for the Elementary ELL

 I have several freebies for you! They are part of the permanent collection at the Teachers pay Teachers  store. There are other freebies that I post for only a few days, so take a look once you are there. LINK to the store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Holistic-English-Resources-By-Rosa-Amelia

FREEBIE 1: This is an easy printable book for the early beginners.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Apple-Book-for-Kindergarten-EFL-1237468

Remember to leave a comment after you download the resource to get extra credits at the TPT store for when you want to make any purchase. Also leave comments for any other resource that you have downloaded either free or paid from any other seller in the store and grab your extra credits.

FREEBIE 2: This is a free resource for the Beach Unit. It comes with Beach Numbers 1 to 12 flashcards, and a printable sentence association game.

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Beach-Numbers-for-Elementary-EFL-4079286#show-price-update

It is part of the Beach Resource for Elementary ESL Students.https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2018/09/beach-unit-for-elementary-esl-learners.html

Freebie #3. As EFL Teachers we should have little Birthday Certificates to give away. Just print and fill them out ahead of time and ready to hand in throughout the school year. There is more to this free resource. Check out the blog post and follow the LINK! 

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2013/02/birthday-theme.html

Freebie #4. Community Helpers Flashcards in Spanish. I know that many teachers need flashcards in Spanish, which is my native language. I can make more upon request. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Community-Helpers-Flashcards-in-Spanish-5619518

take a look!

Freebie # 5. There is a group of teachers that need Flashcards in Spanish. I made these available for FREE, but I will accept requests for any other theme of flashcards that you might need. Download your flashcards here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/El-Clima-Flashcards-The-Weather-Flashcards-in-Spanish-5342516

Freebie # 6. Easy to print and put together Family Members Puppets. Here is the link to download the file.   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Family-Unit-Puppets-4824345

Here is a closer look of the puppets.

Freebie # 7. Getting your students ready to write their name on worksheets, handouts or anything else. Here are 3 FREE worksheets to introduce the name. CLICK here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Name-Worksheets-for-the-Kindergarten-EFL-2836216

Here is the link to the blog post: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2016/10/name-worksheets-for-preschool-ela.html

Freebie #8. I made a new resource for the same Seasons unit and just put this one for FREE to use with your Elementary English Language Learners. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-5403227 

It includes: Seasons Flashcards, Spelling Bingo, Tracer Book, Picture and words cards, worksheets,clothes book. Check the blog post: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/04/seasons-unit-free-resources-for.html

Freebie #9. This is a short printable book for the end of the school year that wraps up the units worked on. Download it here for FREE: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/All-About-Me-For-Elementary-EFL-5934773

Here is a video on the book.

Freebie #10. These simple like plates are great to sort the fruit likes or the food items likes. You can even use it for the pets likes or any other. I used paper plates and the cutouts. It is free!!!   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-likes-plates-2357249

Freebie #11.There are many spelling activities that you can do with the bottle caps. The template is for FREE. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Bottle-Caps-2155938

Freebie #12. This is a resource that can go along your Birthday Unit. Just balloons! It includes: Number balloons Flashcards from 1 to 10, a Class Book and a Memory Game. All in black and White and colored versión.

Get it for free:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Balloon-Theme-for-Kindergarten-EFL-854092

Freebie #13. End of the school year props for pictures.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/End-of-the-School-Year-Photo-Booth-for-Teachers-8048685

I will add more freebies to this list so check back often and also on social media. Follow me!!

SEASONS and Weather

           This is the second part of the Seasons Resource. 

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ESL-1744981
It is also available here:
https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/seasons-unit-for-elementary-esl?variant=37168505684132

 When teaching the Seasons, the Weather vocabulary is up. Here are the flashcards to introduce them.    

                   

I also made them for FREE in Spanish. LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/El-Clima-Flashcards-The-Weather-Flashcards-in-Spaish-5342516

Use the flashcards to sort the Weather into each Season on the board.

                                      Teacher: What season is this ?

Students: Summer !

Teacher: What is the weather ?

Students: It is hot !

Teacher: When is it rainy ?

Students: In the Spring !

Teacher: What is the weather like in the Fall?

Students: It is cloudy and stormy ! 

There is a sorting worksheet to put this into practice. Have the students glue the weather words to each Season box.

This is how it looks like. As I told you before, dictate a color for each season and for each weather word.

Teacher: Winter is pink.

I took the templates provided with the months and had the students match month and weather to each season on their notebooks.

There is also a flap book to put together Seasons, Months and Weather.

There is a set of Seasons, Months and Weather Cards to sort.

It can be sorted out on a desk as group work.

It can be sorted out using recycled Mc Donald’s Fries containers.

Teachers love board games or game boards! Here is another one. Notice that it is a closed game board. Have one of the students throw the dice and depending the number it lands it will be the starting point. For example, if it lands in three or five, the students will start on the rain spot on the board.

The cards can be used or not. The cards are dark yellow and light yellow as the board. If the student lands on light yellow, well, read the light yellow card and answer the question in order to continue playing.

Each student will use a marker picture. I taped an opened clip in the back to make them stand.

Here is the printed the game.

A Seasons and Weather book. I made two versions, a reading book. It is a two in one page format, 7 pages to print.

A coloring and tracing book.

I put the book together using yarn. 

And, watch the video on how the  book looks like.

A pocket chart for extra practice. Students can work alone or in pairs.

I made these cards for writing sentences. It’s like having prompts. Students select words from the cards and write sentences on their notebooks.

 Worksheet one. It is a writing the vocabulary words practice.

Then, have the students cut all the vocabulary word boxes and write sentences.

Worksheet two. Have the students read and color each box. Then, cut each box and place a book ring to read as a book.

Next blog post is Seasons and Clothes. Follow me!

The Weather was –Simple past of verb to be

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-in-the-past-tense-4976066

Watch the video of the complete resource:

The Weather in simple past of the verb to be. There are several flashcards included in the resource to review: How was the weather?.

Here is an example on using them on the board. 

Teacher: What’s the weather?

Students: windy!

Teacher: Today is windy. (write in down and write each word in a different color.)

Teacher: What’s the weather?

Students: sunny!

Teacher: Yesterday was sunny. (write in down and write each word in a different color.)

Have the students contrast each weather using the worksheet.

Ask more questions using the flashcards.

                            Yes/ No questions using the flashcards.

        Have the students write more sentences using the flashcards.

Days of the week strips to create the Forecast on the board along with weather cards.

Have the students talk about the weather yesterday. I used the days of the week to make a small calendar on the board.

Teacher: What day was yesterday?

Students: Tuesday!

Teacher: How was the weather on Tuesday?

Students: It was humid! (Underline was in each sentence)

I made weather strips to make a forecast on the board.

Write a Weather Forecast. Use all the small cards.

Have the students write sentences on their notebooks following the structure: On Wednesday it was wet. It wasn’t hot. Or It was a cloudy day on Wednesday. Use any structure that you are working on. Give out the small worksheet to create the forecast.

The weather goes on in other cities.

Teacher: What was the weather like in Mexico City?

Students: It was cold!

Or use the flashcards for other countries.

Teacher: What was the weather like in Venezuela?

Students: It was rainy!

I am including the country flashcards as I used in my other blog post about the weather and countries in Simple present. Check the blog post for more things that you can do with the resources. LINK: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2018/02/weather-around-world-for-esl.html

Do the same sorting on a desk or on the floor. Students can check on the internet the weather yesterday and sort all the countries, I just did a small example.

Use the small cards for writing sentences on the notebooks.

I am trying to create game boards for every product. Students love an extra time for playing on their own. I tape a bended clip behind each game marker to make it stand. The game board has 4 colors: red, yellow, blue and green. I wrote 2 specific questions depending on where they land: How was the weather? and How is the weather? In order to have students contrast between both tenses.

This is how my Printable game board turned out.

In this era of recycling I see lots of last year books going to the trash or the teachers not knowing what to do with them. I have posted some ways on how to recycle them. Here is another example. Cut out the pictures and have the students do spelling using plastic plates and dry erase markers, where you can easily erase the words.

Or use a fly swatter with a rectangle cut in the middle to read the words.

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