Birthday Unit Invitations and Cards for Elementary ELLs

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These printables 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 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.

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Birthday Unit Games for Elementary ELLs

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Birthday games introduce vocabulary and phrases related to a real-life context (birthdays), making language learning more meaningful and relatable. The playful nature of games can reduce anxiety in ELLs.

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 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 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.

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Birthday Unit Worksheets for Elementary ELLs

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Printing Birthday Unit worksheets will help review the common, real-world vocabulary (e.g., cake, balloons, candles, presents) that children are likely to encounter outside the classroom, making language learning more relevant and practical.

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

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

Read and color the cake by birthday words worksheets.

Find the birthday-related words in a word search.

Complete sentences using vocabulary words.

Read the sentences and draw the picture as described.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

Enhance both language development and classroom interaction. The cards can be used for various activities such as Point to.

Teacher: Point to the balloon!

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

 

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