Colors Unit for Elementary English Language Learners

 Colors Unit for Elementary English Language Learners

This English teacher resource is for teaching starters or Elementary English Language Learners. It comes with flashcards, small cards, worksheets, games and a flap book with a focus on promoting communicate language. This is the unit for the students to identify all the 11 basic colors that would be used along all the book series that you choose.

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Color or colour? Well, that’s up to you. I included grey, just in case. Start introducing the colors vocabulary.Then have the students identify and name colors.

Colors Unit Downloadable Flashcards

Give your students exposure and fun practice with the Monster Colors flashcards.Ask your students if they know any color word in English. Show the flashcards and see how many colors they can name.

Ask Yes/ No questions using the colors flashcards. Have students nod their heads when they answer with yes and shake their heads when they answer with no.  Teacher: Is it blue?

Students: Yes, it is. /No, it isn’t.

Use the worksheet to practice the structures.

Practice asking and answering questions. Attach the color flashcards to the board. Draw a grid around them. Point to each flashcard and have the students say the color word. Say a number and letter combination and have the students guess which color it is.
Teacher: B2
Students: black!

Color Unit Small Cards.

Easy to print and handy to have for multiple games. Here is one. Just cut the word from the picture and have the students match them.

Students can show each other a small card and ask questions to describe the color: What color is it?

Colors Unit Worksheets

Worksheets can be printed for extra practice on any grammar or vocabulary that your students need to work on.

Have the children listen and point to the color word you say. They should repeat the color word.

This is a read and color set of worksheets that cater to the need of your specific students. Have the students read the color listing aloud when they are done.

Use the worksheet as a cut and play kind of worksheet. Students will cut all the strips and place on their desk. Say: Show me orange! They will find that strip of paper and show it to you as they repeat the word.

Write the correct vowel letter worksheet and color. Check the spelling.

Do a listening, color and write the word kind of worksheet. It’s a multiple skill activity.

A worksheet to associate words with colors to help reinforce the connection between the written word and its meaning. Students will write the vowel.

Practice patterns with this simple worksheet that you can do as a listening activity or as a show and tell patterns.

Colors Word Search Worksheet.

Coloring is an engaging activity for young children. Have fun with this coding worksheet.

A nice worksheet to color each word in the corresponding color.

Express preferences using the Favorite color worksheets.

Practice asking and answering questions about the favorite color. Display the color flashcards around the classroom. Have the students to run to their favorite color flashcard and stand next to it. Ask them: What’s your favorite color?

Students: It’s red!

Ask: What’s your favourite colour? and encourage different students to answer. Then, they can complete the worksheet. Use your color flashcards or small cards to name several colors and the students with that color mentioned  in their worksheets should stand up. Write the amount of students that stood up on board, so you can start a graph.

Give a twist to the graph for the favorite color. Place colored balloons at several parts of the classroom. After the students finish their favorite color worksheets. Have them find the balloon of their favorite color and stand right there. Tally the results.

There is the questionnaire worksheet. Use it for the students to walk around the classroom and ask questions and write the response. Place the worksheets into a plastic sheet device so you can use it several times. An activity that will promote peer interaction and communication.

Questionnaires are engaging, students have to walk around and ask the questions in English. After completing the survey, students can share their favorite colors with the class.

Here is a video with all the worksheets in this resource:

Colors Unit Games

Play a colors board game. Print as many as you need and set up the board game. Students should be able to understand and use the color vocabulary as they play.

Color Word Bingo

 Bingo is a vocabulary game with a focus on memorization and listening comprehension.

Use any of the color word worksheets to create 2 Bingo grids to use any time during any of your lesson. Students will cut and paste the colors splash and words randomly. As they play, they have to recognize the color words being called. You can be the caller or have any other students be it, using the color flashcards or small cards.

Unscramble the color words and match game. Just print, cut and have your students start putting together the color words.

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Word Asssociation game. Use this set of cards for many games that you have your students play on their own with very little supervision.

-       Match the words to the color splotches

-       Memory

-     -  Match it up: hand in one card to each student in the class. At your signal, students walk around looking for their match. If they find someone with the matching card, they stand together and say: Match up!

 

                         

Color Unit Books

A flap book to wrap up this unit. Include this simple book in your lesson plan to build confidencein reading skills,

Print both pages for a student or a group of students.

Students will assemble the flap book by stapling the vertical side of the two pages and cutting the strips of the flap book. They have to read and color the splotches.

And a more classic Color Monster printable book.

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Greetings and Farewwells Resource

 Greetings and Farewwells Resource

This ELementary English teacher resource is for teaching starters or Elementary English Language Learners. It comes with flashcards, small cards, worksheets and a flap book with a focus on promoting communicate language.

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This is usually the first class with your Elementary English Language Learners. Prepare your students to use greetings and introductions.Prepare your students for cultural awareness.

Greet your students with your hand as you wave your hand to say Hello! Or hi! Have the class greet each other.

Introduce yourself by writing your name on the board and touching yourself and saying: My name’s _____.

Greetings Unit Flashcards

Use the downloadable Greetings flashcards for the language functions on how to use the greetings: Hi!, Hello! And to introduce oneself.

Impulse communication skills. Put the Greetings flashcards around the classroom. Point to one and say:

Hi, I am Tina.

Encourage your students to point to other flashcards and read the sentence and say a similar one to introduce themselves.

Display any of the flashcards with simple dialogues around the room and say the word or sentence. Have a student go and point to the correct one. Perfect for language practice.

Place the flashcards on the board or a clear plastic sheet and introduce the contraction: I'm. Have the students do the same with each flashcard as a reinforcement.

There is a set small cards for easy printing or small groups teaching. Cut the words out of the card. Place the picture part around the classroom and hand in the written part strip to each student. Have them walk around matching to the picture.

Then, ask questions: What's her name?

Student: Erika

Make craft stick puppets with the small cards. Use them to ask questions:
Is she a girl?
Students: Yes, she is.

This one can be to greet the students and have them answer.

Make a stick puppet by cutting the person on the flashcard or small card and adding a straw. Elicit and ask questions to your students.

Greetings Unit Worksheets

More language to practice with this set of worksheets for guided writing practice. It is for asking and answering questions. It has trace and write the new words.

 How are you? I am fine, thanks. Students can work in pairs and perform the dialogue.

Write the vowels worksheet. Students will do a little spelling here by filling in the blanks with the vowels.

This is a worksheet to give information about oneself. Present student the language for asking people's name. Students should also be able to give their name.

The selfie worksheet. Students can draw themselves in the phone screen template or cut a famous person from a magazine. Then, complete the sentences. Have them produce the language: I’m+name. /My name’s__

Activity idea 1: Put all the selfie worksheets in a bag or box. Pull one out and show it to the class. Ask: Who is it?

Students: It's Rosa Amelia!

Have the class greet with: Hi, How are you?

Conitnue by sleecting another worksheet.

Activity idea 2: Gather all the worksheets, glue and make a poster to use as classroom decoration.

If your students are more into writing texts on their own, these worksheets are great for them. They will write information about themselves. Students can take turns showing their work to small groups or to the class.

 Social interaction can be done as students can walk around with their worksheet asking the question: What’s your name? and writing down the answer.

Questionnaires are interactive and encourage active participation. Students will actively engage in collecting data and practice all language skills

Practice his and her with this worksheet.

A pocket chart is a fun collaborative activity. Keep the pocket chart accessible. Hang it on the wall or a special place where all the students can see it as a visual reference.

Students can make their name card for their desks or print the ones available in this resource. When all the name cards are on the desks, have a group of students stand up and walk around the classroom greeting the students by their name that are sitting down.

Another activity would be: Point to a name card and drill the questions: What is his/her name?
Class: His name is David.

A wrap up activity to make this greetings flap book. This kind of book will focus on cross-cultural learning into how we greet in another language.

 Print both pages for each student. Have them staple on the side and cut along the horizontal lines from the first page to make the flaps.

Students will answer to all to all the phrases or questions on the front flap.

Have your students play with another student reading and answering what is written on the other side of the flap. They can take home the flap book to ask questions to their family members.

There's a video to see the complete activity.

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Lesson Plan Example for English Language Learners

 Lesson Planning is the pillar of your teaching to young learners. I use the 3P's method, which is Presentation, Practice and Production. Adding, Warm up in the beginning and Wrap up at the end, in total 5 steps.

Here is an example using one of my resources.

STEP 1-Warm up. This is a short step. Use a simple game to either review something that you taught last lesson or an easy concept that might be fun to check. I chose the numbers 1 to 10, within an insect theme.

I have this set of number cards. I would give each student a random card and have them show me the card as I name it.
Teacher: Show me number six!
Students: six! (all students with number six , either in numeral or words should show the card)

Then, call all groups. Teacher: All the beehives, stand here. All the butterflies go to the door. All the number words sit down. All the numbers go to the window.

And that will be it! Short and easy and getting the students into the mood for starting the class.

Step 2. Presentation. Focus on the main grammar and the vocabulary items for the unit. Maybe this is your second class with the insects unit. Review the vocabulary with the flashcards. Place them on the board and ask the students: What can you see?

Students: a butterfly!!

Introduce the parts of the body of the insects using the flashcards.

Teacher: This is the antennae. (Point and write the word)

Continue with the rest of the body of any insect.

 Then have the students find all the insects with wings and show the wings in each one.

There is a magnifying glass that you can create for another activity. Have the students use the device to look for the body parts in each flashcards as they name one.

Student: antennae! Wings!!

Step 3. Practice. This part can be done using the worksheets or your workbook.There a different level of worksheets for reviewing the body parts.

Step 4. Production. Use a set of games available, easy to print. Students can play in small groups. Platying games give the stduents the opportunity to listen and speak with their peers.

There's Domino, Bingo, file folder games, game board and a puzzle.

Step 5. Wrap up your class in those last 5 or 10 minutes left. I would use the fly swatter game with the small cards that I can set up in the classroom meanwhile the students are playing the games.

Have the students come up one at a time to swat a fly or any other insect that you lined up. When the student swats a card he/she can pick up their school supplies and leave the classroom or make a line.

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