Fruit and Veggies Games for Elementary ELLs.

 This resource is included in The Fruit and Vegetables level 1 for Elementary ELLS. Get the full Games Pack at this link:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

 Learning fruit and vegetable vocabulary becomes more engaging when it’s tied to **games that combine movement, speaking, and teamwork**. These **fruit and veggies games** give elementary ESL learners fun, interactive ways to practise food words while increasing confidence in speaking and listening — perfect for centers, pair work, or whole-class activities.

Foster collaborative learning as students work effectively in groups to put together this fruit and vegetable vocabulary puzzle. Use the game to help with reading fluency and word recall. Solving puzzles requires focus and persistence.

Teachers can easily adjust the difficulty of the games to match students’ language proficiency. Students can simply draw what is described in the cards. More advanced students can create more sentences and say more fruit and vegetables to draw. It's a Partner communication and descriptive language activity.

Students practice reading sentences using the grammar point: There is /There are and the comprehension by identifying the correct fruit or vegetable to draw using the B/W version or the colored one. It involves spatial language practice . 

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Most printable games are designed for minimal prep, allowing teachers to implement it quickly and with minimal setup. Writing out the names of fruits and vegetables helps students practice spelling, reinforcing correct letter sequences and word formation.

Students can work in small groups by following the path along the Fruit and vegetable vocabulary game board. Players have opportunities to listen carefully to instructions, answer to questions to the cards out loud, enhancing oral language development. Students will win the coin points if they answer correctly. The student with the most points wins.

Print the Words-and-pictures domino game to boost vocabulary skills while building social and cognitive skills through play!

When to Use These Games

• During fruit/food vocabulary units  

• As warm-ups or ice breakers  

• In small groups or centers  

• For speaking and listening practice  

• In mixed-skill classrooms

Using fruit and veggie games gives your learners multiple, fun opportunities to practise vocabulary in meaningful ways — encouraging communication, collaboration, and language output beyond simple memorization.

Fruit and Veggies prepositions ESL activity — printable hands-on games and worksheets to practice in, on, under, next to with fun fruit and vegetable visuals for young learners, all in the same resource.Go to this blog post: 

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Turkey Family for Thanksgiving Teaching -Elementary ELLs

 This resource is included in The Family Unit for Elementary ELLs. Link To the resource:                             https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Family-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-1804475

This Turkey Family resource is perfect for engaging elementary English language learners with family vocabulary. It introduces students to Thanksgiving themes, building cultural awareness. All to prepare your lesson plan for your english class.

The turkey family can be used to review the family-related words, helping students practice terms like “mother,” “father,” “brother,” and “sister” in a fun, memorable way using the printable flashcards.

Teachers can create interactive activities around the turkeys, like naming family members, describing them, or using simple sentences, boosting speaking confidence by creating small cards on the templates provided.

The Turkey Family worksheets in the resource offer a great way to support both vocabulary building and holiday-themed learning. There are color words and then bind together and create a book.

By engaging with written tasks, students build reading comprehension and writing skills, which are crucial for language development. There are: color by number, complete the family words, answer the yes/no questions.

Games provide a playful way for students to repeatedly use family-related vocabulary in context. As students play, they need to speak and listen to each other, promoting language production as they move along the board: It’s a blue feather. If the students say the correct word, that feather card is available for that player to take.

The goal is that players get as many feathers. They will color the feathers on their worksheet if they have the cards. They will continue playing until they get as many cards possible. The winner is the one with the most feathers to color.

They will complete their turkey on their worksheet, either mother, father, brother, sister or baby, just one. They will make a craft with their turkey member by adding the feathers and the person. Make a display in class.

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Halloween and the School Unit for Elementary ELLs

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By incorporating Halloween activities, teachers provide ELLs with an opportunity to experience and understand a key aspect of the culture. Find it all to prepare a Lesson plan 3p.

Blend essential classroom language with the fun of Halloween using the school things flashcards. Students will associate common school supplies (e.g., pencil,) with the Halloween theme helping retain vocabulary through visual context. Always use pointers for asking questions.

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The Halloween theme reinforces additional seasonal vocabulary, such as "vampire," while teaching necessary school-related terms using the small cards. Ask questions: What character is shown on the scissors?

Students: Vampire!

I made this pointer to read words. I bought this cutout at Dollar tree years ago, but grab the idea to make your own.

The worksheets with a Halloween theme add excitement to the lessons. Have the students complete the worksheets while learning school supplies vocabulary in a festive context.

Engaging ELLs in games around Halloween helps to maintain their interest and participation in language learning. This domino game involves all the school supplies words and images to match.

Halloween-themed school supplies games provide a dynamic way to teach vocabulary to English language learners (ELLs). Students love BINGO! Play this game by having the students color the school items in any of the four colors playing: green, orange, purple, black, and glue only 6 of them onto their board.

Use your calling cards to start the game: an orange book! The student that color the book orange can cross out the block. Keep in mind that you can play this game at any other time using the same board that they have created. It is useful for those final 5 or 10 minutes to wrap up a class.

Leaving for last this flap book printable. This is a creative writing activity. Students will color the Frankenstein on each flap and write a text.

This printable worksheet pack helps students practice vocabulary connected to school life and classroom items. It supports multiple skills for young learners and ELL beginners, all in the same Schol Unit resource. Go to this blog post: 

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Fruit and Veggies Worksheets for Elementary ELLs.

 This resource is included in The Fruit and Vegetables level 1 for Elementary ELLS.LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

The worksheets focus on—fruits and vegetables—that students will encounter in real-life situations, helping them communicate more effectively in English. These worksheets use engaging activities that cater to visual learners. By including activities like matching, sorting, and labeling, the worksheets offer a hands-on, multisensory approach. Use these for the practice part of the lesson plan for your english class.

This worksheet helps students practice fruits and vegetables vocabulary. Learners read simple phrases, look at the pictures, and write the correct number, and coloring accordingly.

 

Students identify fruits and vegetables by matching pictures to numbers. As an extension, learners can color the items and write simple sentences describing each one.

Students complete missing vowels in fruit and vegetable words and then match each word to its picture.

 As an extension, learners can create a class poster by connecting the words and images, reinforcing spelling, vocabulary, and visual recognition.

This Read and Draw worksheet helps students practice reading simple sentences while drawing and coloring fruits based on color clues.

These Complete and Draw worksheets combine, color recognition, and vocabulary practice in one engaging activity.

Students review fruit and vegetable vocabulary by finding and highlighting familiar words in the word search. It supports spelling and visual scanning.

This worksheet helps students practice counting, number words, and simple sentences using familiar fruit and vegetable vocabulary.

This match and read worksheet helps students connect simple sentences with pictures while practicing numbers, vocabulary, and basic sentence structure.

This Is or Are worksheet helps students choose the correct verb and then color the matching fruits and vegetables. It reinforces basic grammar.

This cut-and-paste worksheet helps students match simple sentences with the correct fruit and vegetable pictures on their notebooks.

This What are you? / What do you have? worksheet encourages students to write simple sentences using fruit and vegetable vocabulary and colors inside speech bubbles. It supports early writing.

Revisit the face and body vocabulary in the context of the fruit and vegetable unit, giving students the chance to reinforce their understanding of previously learned words.

This worksheet helps students practice plural spelling rules for fruits and vegetables by sorting words into -s, -es, and -ies. It reinforces  spelling patterns.

In this simple writing activity, students practice forming sentences with “I want…” while identifying fruits and vegetables.

Students practice using there is and there are to describe fruits and vegetables.

Students use I like and I don’t like to express food preferences.

Students practice identifying, counting, and talking about fruits and vegetables using clear sentence models and visual support. These worksheets build confidence with simple questions and answers through repetition and meaningful context.

Interview Activity – Favorite Fruits & Vegetables

Students walk around the classroom asking classmates, “What’s your favorite fruit or vegetable?” and record the answers on their worksheets using clipboards. This speaking-and-listening activity builds confidence, encourages interaction, and practices real-life questioning skills in a fun, meaningful way.

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Fun fruit and veggies games for elementary ESL learners — engaging printable activities to practise food vocabulary, speaking  are also included in the full pack of fruit and vegetables. Go to the blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/11/fruit-and-veggies-games-for-elementary.html

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