Easter for Elementary ELL

Easter small cards: play match the pairs of cards. Students will have to observe the cards  and concentrate.

Easter read and color book: have students construct meaning from the text and pictures. Then have them color only what indicates a color. The rest has to be blank.

Easter Pocket Chart: a wonderful resource to have in the class for those children who are kinesthetic learners. Children can work alone using the pocket chart. Explain to the children how the pocket chart works.

Get the files:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easter-Theme-for-Elementary-ELL-1776009 

Easter Egg book: This book can be easily made just by coloring the picture and tracing the phrases. It can also be made by coloring, cutting out and gluing the pictures onto each egg. The phrases are very easy to read. I punched a hole and placed a butterfly clip.

Easter Letter Tiles: have the students make the Easter words by using the letter tiles. Then, invite them to make new words by using each letter of the word.

Easter worksheets. Use them in a dynamic way having the students interact with each other as they complete them.

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https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easter-Acrivities-for-Elementary-ELL-1776020

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More Easter activities at my other blog:www.eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com

St. Patrick´s Day

Link to the resources: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-for-Preschool-and-Elementary-ESL-1763425
                                            Watch the view with the resources:

Teaching the language will eventually come with teaching the culture. Provide a variety of activities, because the information for St. Patrick´s might be new for most kids. It is important that you understand the context of this Holiday and what you want them to learn.
                                              Flashcards 

Coloring book. I made a bigger version for the teacher and a smaller for the students. Have them read each sentence and color only what it says. Children will learn to focus on details when coloring. It will help recognize colors.

Here is my book with engaging reading text for Elementary English Language Learners.

 Matching number/picture card and words. Games usually capture the student´s attention and encourage speaking .

 Play:

- Memory

-Match the word and picture

- Play Who has it? Hand in a card to each player in the group. Name a word and the student who has it, stands up and says the word.

- Play Find and say. Place all the cards face up on the group´s table. Name a word or number. The first student to find it and say the word wins the card. The winner is the one with the most cards.

Domino Game: 

 A tracer book. 

Fun bracelets.

                                   A hat for the super student.

Worksheets: they will work as a supplement to the activities, helping keep track of learning and understanding of the Holiday. Put students together in groups to finish the task.

Worksheet 1. 

Worksheet 2. 

Worksheet 3. Emotions.

Worksheet 3. counting.

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Valentine´s Day Ideas for Elementary ELL

I created this game for my girls so they could match contractions. Get them for free, for a short period of time, there are more Valentine´s printables, including cards. Link:  

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentines-for-ELL-1693866

I have had this roll the dice game for years, I don´t know the author. Write me an email(ei98srl@gmail.com) and I can send the file. The file comes with the heart template that the students have to trace. Then, they play alone and start drawing as the dice directs  or play in pairs and see who is the first one to complete the Heart Person. 

 A nice book to make to review the structure  I love…..   www.graphicsfromthepond.com.au
          

And for Valentine´s Day vocabulary words, a trace activity:

The Teachers Pay Teachers Store has some great resources for free. Here are some of them. 

 Sight words are almost never included in any textbook.   These commonly used words should be  encouraged to memorize and automatically recognized. 

A fun crown for the structure I love….

  

A worksheet for teaching colors:

A cut and paste activity for verbs:

Never miss a Word Search.

Get more ideas  and free files for younger learners at my other blog: 

http://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2015/02/valentines-day.html

Greetings and Introductions

This is an old resource but many teachers still download it for free.

 Link to the FREE Greeting Unit resource: 
https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/greetings-resources-for-kinder-and-elementary-esl?variant=36125058105508

Watch the video:

Hello !

                  Make some people puppets. It can be paper bag puppets or finger puppets. Send me an Email requesting the templates for these for free.(ei98srl@gmail.com)
Hold them up and have them greet each other, modeling  the expressions: Hi and Hello.

       Have students come to the front of the class and greet them.

       Teacher: Hello, Gabriel. (shake student´s hand.)  Encourage the student to answer.

        Student: Hello, teacher.

Continue greeting students individually. Have other students greet each other.

Write the Word Hello on the board. Read the word aloud as you point to it.  Ask students to read it aloud individually and then chorally. Continue with more greeting expressions.

Here´s my Hello Hand worksheet. After tracing the words, cut the hands and make Greetings puppets.

   Greeting Chain: say Hello to a student. Then have that student say hello to the student sitting behind. Continue, in a chain, until all the students have greeted  and have been greeted.

What´s your name ?

Teach the name structure Using tpr. TPR is a language teaching technique which means Total Physical Response. It coordinates language and movements by giving instructions and the students performing them. It helps with a higher retention of the vocabulary or structures taught and develops language fluency.

Model using gestures as you to convey meaning:

Shrug your shoulders for WHAT ?

Point to the student  for YOUR

Trace a circle on your body  for  NAME or point to the name tag if you made them.

Make a name badge  for you and for your students. Point to your name badge and say your name.

 Point to a student and have him/her stand up and say My 

name´s ______ pointing to his/her name badge.

Game: Ask students as a class: What´s your name? and have them all shout out their names holding up their name tags.

Use the Greeting puppets.

Puppet: Hello ! What´s your name ?

Puppet: Hi! My name´s Ann. What´s your name ?

 Puppet: My name´s Bill.

Two other students can come to the front and role play using their own names. Have the students greet each other by shaking hands, model for them if necessary.

Explain that the longer  version  is My name is and the shorter one is My name´s. Write it on the board. And repeat the dialogue using the longer version.

                                Introduce the people at school: boy, girl, teacher.

Game 2: write the word.

Hi, Hello, boy, girl, What, ´s, is, your , name, my.

Make as many copies as you need for your class. Make groups and hand the letters. Say a word and have the students find the letters and make the word by standing up with the letters in order. Give a point to the first group to do so. I glued each letter onto a craft stick for easy handling.

Students can make a big version of all the words on a big construction paper or a smaller version on their notebooks. Here are the letters in a black and white version. Use the opportunity to review the alphabet by assigning a color to each letter.
Teacher: letter a is blue.
 Students color all the letter a in blue. Continue with more directions.

Gather pictures of famous people or Tv characters that children can relate to. Put any of these pictures on the board and a speech bubble next to it. Write My name´s ______ in the speech bubble. Have students name the character and write the name in speech bubble. Then have students read the  speech bubble.  Continue with all the pictures that you brought to class.

I glued the pictures onto fun foam and a craft stick. For the speech bubble , I printed it onto colored paper, placed clear contact paper and glued onto fun foam and craft stick as well. The, I wrote with a white board marker and erased it with baby wipes.

Use the pictures to introduce His/ Her name is _____. 
What´s his/her name ?

 I created a Name Graph Worksheet as seen on PINnterest.   You can use the larger worksheet as a group letter counting in a name. The smaller sheets are for individual letters in a name counting.

Another worksheet that can be used as a frame for younger learners.

What if children draw you and write your name.

Teacher: What is my name ?

Students: Your name is ______.

There is another blog post with more for the greeeting and Introductions. https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/06/greetings-and-farewwells-resource-this.html