Birthday Unit Invitations and Cards for Elementary ELLs

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These ESL/EFL printable activities are for learning how to write birthday invitations and cards. It ties together language learning, writing, and social-emotional skills. Writing birthday invitations and cards encourages empathy and consideration for others. 

Writing birthday invitations is a real-world task. It encourages the use of common phrases such as "You are invited”, which enhances their vocabulary and sentence structure.

Students fill in invitations with key details: Who: Who is invited?, What: What is the celebration?, When: Date and time, Where: Place of the party

 This helps students practice question words, dates, and simple sentences!

Students have the chance to practice writing in a structured yet creative way. They learn how to format an invitation, including addressing the recipient, adding the time and location—skills that build their overall writing abilities.

Writing Birthday cards is common in many cultures. It provides an opportunity to compare and contrast birthday customs from different cultures, fostering cultural understanding. Students can decorate their cards and invitations and hand them in to friends and family.

These support writing, creative expression, and social language skills. 

Why This Matters in ELL Classrooms

Invitations and cards give students a purpose for writing — something to make, share, and talk about!

✔ Encourages real-life language use
✔ Practices vocabulary: party, friends, date, time, place
✔ Supports simple sentence writing
✔ Builds confidence with functional writing tasks

These are perfect for writing stations, small groups, or homework practice.

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Birthday Unit Games for Elementary ELLs

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Help your elementary English Language Learners (ELLs) practice and retain birthday vocabulary through fun, meaningful games! These Birthday Unit games are designed to support your production stage in lesson planning by encouraging students to use new language with play, interaction, and collaboration.

Games introduce vocabulary and phrases in a real-life context, helping language stick while reducing student anxiety. Play builds motivation, boosts communication, and makes practicing vocabulary fun!

Fun games such as domino can help maintain motivation. This Birthday-themed game allows students to match images with the corresponding word. It is a way to reinforce word recognition.

Birthday Puzzle games offer repeated exposure to the new vocabulary making it easy to retain new words through play. As students put the puzzle together, they can be encouraged to verbalize what they are matching.

Board Games with Language Prompts

Board games involve interaction and collaboration between peers. There are two cards that prompt players to answer the question. The other cards are for moving one space or going back.

Spelling Games with Cut-Out Letters

Spelling Games can incorporate visual, and kinesthetic elements. Provide students with the printable cut-out letters in the shape of birthday-themed items balloons and candles. Use these for various spelling games where students arrange the letters to spell vocabulary words  based on the small cards, puzzles, etc.

As an extra spelling activity have the students do word shapes. Give the learners math paper with the squares. The letters that are within the lines have to be represented by a square and the other letters that go above the line should be a rectangle to fit them. Prepare an example for the class. A fun way to see how each word represents a shape.

Whether you’re teaching vocabulary review, speaking fluency, or collaborative skills, adding games to your lessons turns learning into a fun classroom experience! 

These small cards are part of the complete Birthday Unit resource, which includes flashcards, games, worksheets, and more! You can find the full unit on Teachers Pay Teachers for a thematic, joyful lesson plan that supports vocabulary, speaking, reading, and writing.

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Birthday Unit Worksheets for Elementary ELLs

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These printing Birthday Unit worksheets are designed to help elementary English language learners (ELLs) practice vocabulary, reading comprehension, and sentence structure using a theme students love: birthdays! This collection of engaging worksheets supports meaningful language learning and fits perfectly into your 3P lesson plans (Presentation, Practice, Production).

These worksheets practice vocabulary and language structures that are useful both inside and outside the classroom, such as cake, balloons, candles, presents and more. 

Vocabulary Matching

Find a set of Birthday Vocabulary Matching Worksheets where students match the birthday-related words with pictures.

Writing & Tracing Worksheets

Students trace the color words on the cakes to practice writing the birthday vocabulary worksheet. Go further by having the learners cut each cake and glue on their notebooks and write a sentence next to each cake.

Read & Color Activities

Read and color the cake by birthday words worksheets.

Word Search

A fun search activity where students find birthday-related words to reinforce spelling and visual scanning skills. 

Sentence Completion

Learners complete sentences using key vocabulary to strengthen basic grammar and sentence structure.

Read the sentences and draw the picture as described Worksheets,etc.

Complete the Sentences worksheets for your Birthday Unit, designed to help elementary English language learners practice vocabulary and sentence structure.

How Old Are You? – Fill in the Blanks worksheets. Complete the sentences by filling in the correct age.

Read and Color worksheets for a Birthday Unit will help students practice reading comprehension while engaging in a fun coloring activity.

This worksheet can be used as alistening activity. Say the compelte sentene where students have to have the color word and color the balloon accordingly.

Students will write the words to make sense to a text and color the cake.

How to Use These Worksheets in Your ELL Classroom

✅ Warm-Up: Start with matching cards or the word search for engaging review.
✅ Pair Work: Have students ask and answer “How old are you?” with each other using the worksheets.
✅ Independent Practice: Assign the tracing and coloring pages for reading and writing support.
✅ Assessment: Use complete sentence and “How old are you?” pages as informal comprehension checks.

There are more worksheets to engage your ELL Students with Fun Birthday-Themed Worksheets! These worksheets focus on vocabulary, numbers, reading comprehension, and sentence-building—all within the context of a theme that students love: Birthdays!

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Skills Practiced

✔ Vocabulary recognition (birthday objects)
✔ Reading comprehension with visuals
✔ Writing and tracing for early literacy
✔ Sentence structure with basic grammar
✔ Number and age practice in context 

 

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Numbers 1 to 20 Halloween Eyeballs for Elementary ESL

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This resource provides a fun way for students to practice recognizing and identifying numbers from 1 to 20 in a Halloween context using eyeballs. Find all to write the english lesson plan  for elementary ELLs.

Display the Halloween eyeballs flashcards randomly, and have students pick a card, identify the number, and say it aloud. This helps with both number recognition and pronunciation. Students will grab a sidewalk chalk and write the numeral and the word.

Print the small card format that offers additional flexibility for classroom activities.

Throw the beanbag.  Spread the small cards (with Halloween eyeballs and numbers 1 to 20) on the floor or tape them to a wall. Students take turns tossing a bean bag onto a card. Wherever the bean bag lands, they must identify and say the number aloud.

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Cut the word out of each small card. Have the students pair the Halloween eyeball number with the word.

Worksheets

The spooky visuals will capture their attention. The worksheets help students practice recognizing numbers from 1 to 20 in a structured and repetitive way. Learners will complete the numeral or the word for each box.

Using eyeballs as a visual aid provides a strong visual cue for number identification. On one worksheet answer the question How many eyeballs? and on the other it’s an unscramble the letters to write the number word.

Worksheets serve as an easy way for teachers to assess students' understanding of numbers 1 to 20. Plan making the dice ahead of time, a set of dice can serve a small group of ELLs. ELLs throw the dice and then color accordingly.

Connect learning with the Holiday! Students cut and paste the numbers and create a 1 to 20 mat.

Game

Ask students to arrange the flashcards in the correct order from 1 to 20. You can make it more interactive by asking them to count the eyeballs as they place each card.

Many teachers struggle to keep number practice meaningful once students can count by rote. Learners may say numbers aloud but still struggle to recognize numerals, match quantities, or use numbers in real communication. The activities below address these challenges by combining counting, movement, visuals, and speaking practice, all in the same numbers pack. Go to this blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/08/numbers-1-to-20-games-and-activities.html 

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Birthday Unit Small Cards for Elementary ELLs

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Birthday unit small cards offer a quick and engaging way to review the new vocabulary related to birthdays. Find these easy to store, prepare, and reuse, which reduces preparation time.Use these to write the presentation part of the lesson plans for english language learners.

Make vocabulary learning active, simple, and fun with Birthday Unit Small Cards designed especially for elementary English language learners (ELLs)! These quick-prep cards are perfect for vocabulary review, speaking practice, and classroom interaction. 

Small cards are easy-to-print, reusable visual vocabulary cards that help young learners recognize and talk about common birthday party items and ideas. They’re ideal for the presentation stage of your lesson, helping students connect words to images quickly and confidently. 

Flashcard Prompt and Response

Enhance both language development and classroom interaction. The Birthday party vocabulary cards can be used for various activities such as Point to.
Teacher: Point to the balloon!

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 Speaking Practice

If you don’t have a pointer in hand, have the students pick up the card as you name it: It’s a blue cake.

Writing Practice

Using the cards in activities like sentence-building activities is engaging and fun for the students. They can write a sentence for each small card on a white board using colorful markers.

Sentence Expansion: Add adjectives or colors.

Learners that are ready can write even more complex sentences.

You can draw a picture of a birthday item and have the class guess what it is: It’s a candle! Students can play the game in pairs or small groups using the cards.

Listen!

Pair & Group Games with prepositions

The cards allow teachers to cater to different levels by adjusting the complexity of the tasks such as pair matching for beginners. Students will match the preposition word to the corresponding picture. Just cut the word out of each card. This kind of activity will help develop students’ cognitive skills, including concentration and recall of the location words.

Speaking opportunity!

Why Use Small Cards in Your ELL Classroom?

✅ Instant Vocabulary Review – Great for quick warm-ups.
✅ Low-Prep & Reusable – Print once and use year after year.
✅ Student Interaction – Students can pick up the card or point to the item when prompted.
✅ Adaptable Levels – Pair with sentences for beginners or more complex writing activities for advanced learners. 

Small cards are a versatile and classroom-friendly way to reinforce birthday vocabulary and build confidence in young English learners. Whether you use them for quick review, speaking prompts, or writing practice, your students will have fun learning and using new language!

Birthday Unit and Face vocabulary ESL resource — printable flashcards, speaking & writing activities to teach face parts and birthday words for elementary learners all in the complete resource pack.  Go to this blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2025/03/this-resource-is-included-in-birthday.html 

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