Halloween Resources for Elementary ELL

More resources for Halloween !! Here´s the link: 

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

Label the cards. Review face and body vocabulary besides the clothes of these Halloween children. I made two size labels. Laminate  or place each one into a plastic sheet and they can write all the words instead of gluing.

I see Coloring Book.  Some teachers see coloring as a waste of time but it has many advantages. It improves the student´s handwriting. They can learn how to be patient, to focus on their work, to concentrate. It stimulates creativity and self- expression. 

Candy Corn Color Words. Just a simple worksheet that children color as indicated. 

Then have them cut all the candy corns. 

Say a new way to put a candy corn together.

Teacher: pink, white, orange.

This is a good listening activity. But turn it into speaking as a student says another option and the class builds the candy corn as said. They can do this in small group and paste it onto cardboard for decoration.

A set of Flashcards to introduce and assist in learning the Halloween words. Just print them. I made them small so it is easy to carry from one class to another.

Make a grid on the board, on one side the letter and on the other the number.

Say a letter and number combination:

Teacher: D4

Students: bag ! 

Use the template and make bottle caps letters to write the Halloween words.

I made a Haunted House! I glued it onto a shoe box and all the characters I placed them on the biggest clip I found.

This is the teacher´s version for reviewing prepositions.

Place the characters and say a sentence.

Teacher: The cat is behind the house. Continue with the other Halloween children.

Then ask questions:

Teacher: Where is the ghost ?

Students: He is in front of the house.

Hand in the student´s version. Have them make a poster by putting up their own version of the Haunted House. They will have to write some sentences and present it to the class. It can be done individually or in groups.

The Pocket chart ! They work as visuals for students to make connections in reading. They can associate sentences to pictures by themselves or in small groups.

A nice memory game. But I also made a witch that can be fed with the Halloween words. I glued her onto the tap of the shoe box that I used for the Haunted House.

Play the concentration card game using Halloween flashcards, or the old game Go Fish:  I usually print 4 copies of the cards and paste them onto black construction paper.   In groups of 4, students sit in a circle and take turning asking each other a question. Do you have (a ghost)?  If the answer is YES, the student hands in the card and the students that asked makes a pair and put it away on his/her pile. If the answer is NO, the student doesn´t get a card and the turn is for another student in the circle. The winner is the student that makes more pairs.

 Another book with the Halloween characters on cars.

I added puppets to make a running race with the puppets and assign first, second place to review the ordinal numbers.

The Matching cards are fun to play. 

I got the idea to make colored plates because buying a set of plates in each color is too much money. I got small paper plates and colored the inner circle in each. Then it is just sort the cards in each plate.

  And just pairing all the cards is a good reading activity.

Play Bingo with the cards! Hand in a Spinner to each student and have them write any color and Halloween noun combination and play the Bingo game.

Halloween Candy Corn Friends for Elementary ELL

Just reviewing some old Halloween resources, I found this book I created years ago. I added some more things and here is the product.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Candy-Corn-Friends-3424290

I have two readers for this resource. 

Present the book to the students, tell them that it is about Candy Corn Friends. Many students have not seen a candy corn. They don´t know what it is. Explain that it is a candy used in Halloween.

Read aloud the book for them.  Read using different voices for each Candy Corn. Such as a stronger voice for Frank and a different one for the witch.  After reading discuss the book. Ask them questions about the characters.

Teacher: What color is Frank ?

Students: He is green.

                    The other one can be just for reading or use it as a coloring book.

                                          

                                               Here is how mine turned out.

For introducing the story use the puppets. Show them the characters of the book before reading.  And you can use them after reading for the students to create their own story to present to the class. I made mine by gluing a craft stick but you can use a glove, felt anything to create wonderful puppets.

   

And crowns can work for retelling the story or for role play. Recounting the story is a skill to grow. Retelling using props helps the students comprehend the story. You can read and have the students come to the front one by one as you mention them  with their crown.

Here is an interesting part, an interactive book. A little cutting, gluing and putting together their book. 

I made mine using a book ring.

And then students can play in small groups. The board game has the characters. I made them stand using a clip. This a simple board game that doesn't take a lot of time to play.

And there´s another version where the students have to say a word with each letter of Halloween. Teach the rule that when a player lands on an H, a word starting with letter h must be said in order to stay in that place, if not, the student  has to stay where he/she was before.

Pocket charts are also a good way to play in small groups making the sentences. I only have this little red pocket chart. I thought that didn´t have a place in the English language Teaching, but I started doing things and they are quite useful. Besides making sentences, students can sort the Halloween Characters by color. You can use them to create the sequence of the story book. Place all the characters in alphabetical order.

And finally, make a coloring book to take home. By coloring in class, it helps to prepare students more structured lessons in the years to come. Coloring the Candy Corn characters  will motivate the students to appreciate the difference between the characters. They can come with imaginative ways to color their Candy Corn friends.

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Nature or Garden Theme for Elementary ELL

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Use the Flashcards for Speaking activities. 

Place several flashcards on the board and write a number above each one and ask questions.

Teacher: What is number 3 ?

Students: It´s a plant.

Teacher: Is number 4 a cactus ?

Students: No, it isn´t. It´s a tree.

Have students make sentences.

Students: Number 1 is an acorn.

Have students draw the nature items and write sentences on their notebooks.

This is an acorn. This isn´t a stick.

Students can talk about numbers. Write the numbers 1 to 6 on the board. Have  2 students come to the front and place the flowers flashcards under the corresponding number.

Teacher :How many flowers are there ? Pointing to number 1

Students: one. One flower.

Have the students continue counting.

Students: Two flowers, three flowers, four flowers, five flowers, six flowers.

Teacher : What color is flower number 1 ?

Students: red.

Teacher: It´s a red flower.

Students: It´s a red flower.

 Continue with all the other flowers.

I found these great clip art for There is and There are sentences.

Place one or more on the board and model the sentences.

 Place more flashcards on the board for the students to say what they see.
 Then hand out all the other flashcards and have them make sentences on their notebooks and share with the class.

Review prepositions with the flashcards. Write the prepositions on the board and have the students sort the flashcards.

Ask questions:

Point to the first flashcard,

Teacher: Where are the flowers ?

Students: They are on the cactus.

Point to the second flashcard,

 Teacher: Is the butterfly on the flower ?

Students: Yes, it is.

Have students make and write a sentence for each flashcard.

And some Verbs related to the theme. Select the flashcards that you want to students to come up with phrases. Place them on the board and start from the picture.

Teacher: What is he doing ?

Students: He is planting a tree.

Suggest that he can plant any kind of trees. Have them think of other trees and write their answers.

Students: an apple tree, a big tree. They may come up with diverse answers.

 Here are the Verb related flashcards

With the flashcards you can have the students classify them into verbs or nouns.

Place a flower flashcard on the board, review the parts of the plant that the students remember, if not, place the flashcards on one side of the board to remind them.

Draw an arrow with the words for each part of the plant. Ask them which parts are missing, they might have to say the roots and the seed. Draw them under the flower. (LABELING)

Go to this link and download this easy worksheet made by Wendy Gilstrap.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/FreeDownload/The-Parts-of-a-Plant-1823426
As dictating all the color for each part of the plant, which is a good listening exercise. I had each word cut out and each part. Then the students had to line the words in alphabetical order and glue the part next to each word.

If you want to go further with the verb planting. I suggest you do, because you can introduce the words, first, then, next and finally that can be used for writing a text in the future.

Teacher: First, get the flower seeds.( emphasize the word first, use your finger as in number 1)

Then, bake the seeds with a little salt .( emphasize the word then, moving your hand or finger forward)

Next, put the seed in the soil.( emphasize the word next) Ask students, what does the flower need to grow. Show them the flashcards of soil, sun and water.

Finally, watch the plant grow.( emphasize the word finally by showing with your hands the end.)

And the trees change within the seasons. Remember that some countries don´t have all the Seasons. It is good to review the Seasons with the trees and see how they change.

Some games to end the theme.

First, a board game. I made one with the most common words and a blank one for your or the students to fill out with the words that will be playing.I added 8 game pieces. The students can select who or what they want to be at the game. I make the pieces stand by placing them in a binder clip.

And the other game is the traditional Bingo. I added the Bingo grid but you can do the Bingo List on their notebooks. I like this kind of game to practice Spelling.But for a twist I got a flower pot which I turned into a pocket. I used the flower template to make the flower words and glued them onto a craft stick for Bingo calling.

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