"Interactive Learning with Small Cards: Engaging Farm Animal Activities for ELLs"

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Print the farm unit small cards to offer even more flexibility for interactive learning. Find in this post engaging activities to help students build farm vocabulary, speaking skills, and sentence structures! Small cards allow students to manipulate and interact with the vocabulary rather than just observing.

Small Card Writing Activity. Have learners select 4 small cards and write a short text on their notebooks. By selecting four cards, students must think critically about how to connect the words into a meaningful sentence or short text.

 Encourage Pair and Group Work as students sort the cards into 2 or 4 legs farm animals. Students can also categorize the animals into Big or Small. Grouping words into meaningful categories helps students remember and recall vocabulary more easily.

Small cards are great for students to work independently or with a partner to sort the animals into mommy and baby. As students discuss their choices, they practice explaining, reasoning, and using key phrases (e.g., "The horse is the mommy." "The foal is the baby.")

Sorting farm animals by products introduces basic classification skills that support early science learning. Review the farm-to-table connections (e.g., cows → milk). Model sentences: "A cow gives us milk." Students will make more sentences as they match the cards.

Use the small cards as a Bingo caller deck. Have students write 6 or 8 words on their notebooks from all the small cards that are displayed on the board or table. They will mark their matching words as they are called.

Students write on the speech bubbles (available on the resource) what Sound the animal makes (Moo, Baa, Cluck). This helps linking phonetic awareness with written words. Students can practice reading their speech bubbles aloud, reinforcing pronunciation and speaking confidence.

A video!!

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Hamburger Prepositions for Primary School English Learner

 This resource is part of the Food Unit for Elementary English Language Starters.  LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Food-unit-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-Starters-11035412

There is a set of flashcards with the hamburger in different positions (e.g., on, in, under, next to, behind, in front of, between the box). It also comes with the small cards that students can use for matching games or sentence-building activities.

Hand in the cutouts of the hamburger and box for the students to, color, cut and glue onto a toilet paper roll. Have them place in the correct position according to sentences (e.g., "Put the hamburger inside the box").   Students can write-the-sentence on their notebooks to reinforce the skills.

Assemble the printable dice with prepositions of the hamburger’s position for a fun "Roll & Place" game than can be played in pairs.

Use the mat with labeled prepositions or the images one, and have the learners place the cutout in the correct spot on the mat. As an option they can write the sentence for extra practice.

There is a preposition puzzle where students match a sentence (e.g., "The hamburger is in the box") with the correct picture.

Print a board game where students move along a path and must say or write a sentence using the preposition shown on the space (e.g., "The hamburger is under the box").

There are several worksheets to use along the theme.

Use your worksheets for speaking!

To wrap it up, create this flap book which is a fantastic interactive tool because it provides a hands-on activity. The pages are glued in the middle. Students will match the picture to the word. They will lift each flap to reveal a hamburger in different positions relative to the box.

They can also include a sentence frame, such as "The hamburger is ___ the box." under each flap.  As an Interactive Quiz you can call out a preposition, and students find the correct flap.

Take a look of the flap book!

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Farm Animals Flashcards

 This resource for Primary School English teacher is included here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Farm-Unit-for-Elementary-EFL-3790548

Flashcards are a powerful tool when introducing the farm animals and farm life. They provide visual support, interactive learning, and repeated exposure, all essential for language acquisition.

Repeat vocabulary through activities that helps students retain new words as a way for speaking with your elementary ELLs.

Favorite farm animal graph. Place the flashcards on the board. Ask: "What is your favorite farm animal?" Have each student pick a flashcard with the animal they like the most,

and says: "My favorite farm animal is the cow."
Then have the students talk about the results.
Teacher: Which is Emily´s favorite animal?
Students: rooster!
Teacher: Who likes the cow?
Students: Will and David!

Possessive nouns. Place the farmer flashcard in the middle of the board and all flashcards that belongs to the farmer as in a mind map. Model a sentence.

Teacher: Who is she?
Students: the farmer.
Teacher: This is the farmer´s tractor.
Teacher: What is this?
Students: It's a barn.
Teacher: Whose barn is this?
Students: It's the farmer's barn.

Baby animals. Display the adult animal flashcards on one side of the board and the baby animals on the other side.
Play the game Guess Who? with the flashcards.
Teacher: It´s pink. It´s small. oink!
Students: the pig !
Teacher: NO!
Students: The piglet!
Teacher: YES! 

Farmyard Mystery for animal products – Place several flashcards on the board. Create a mind map by placing each animal's produce under each arrow.
Teacher:   COW!
Students: milk.
What do farm animals give. Here´s my list:

Farm animals eat!

Flashcard Sound Hunt – Hide flashcards around the room. When students find one, they must say the sound the animal makes and name it before giving it to you to place on the board with the sound word.

"Guess the Farm Animal" Grid Game. This grid-based guessing game turns learning farm animal vocabulary into an exciting challenge. Prepare a grid with farm animals in different squares on the board.
Teacher: They are yellow! They are green and brown. There are nine.
Students: B1!! The ducks.

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Cat Family for Elementary ELL

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This is an engaging way to teach family vocabulary within the pet unit!

Introduce the Cat Family. Students take turns picking a cat family member flashcard and describing them using simple sentences. (e.g., This is the father. He is big and gray.) If students already know the clothes vocabulary, expand on that: He is wearing a purple tie, a white shirt, blue pants and purple shoes.

Use the speech bubble for the students to introduce their character.

Instead of one-word answers, students learn to communicate using complete thoughts to introduce family members.

Help students talk about family members and possessions clearly (e.g., This is Jane’s grandmother).

Give students the small cards and a whiteboard with colored markers to write the names of the family members.

Worksheets incorporate reading, writing, speaking, and listening, making them effective for different learning styles.

Students write the correct family member word under each cat picture.

This is a reading comprehension worksheet where students will write the name of each cat. Then, they color the family members and on their notebooks write simple sentences (e.g., The mother cat is pink.).

More worksheets to expand the lesson plan.

Help students listen, read, and comprehend simple instructions in English by coloring within a path ending on a yarn. Teachers can give extra listening practice by asking questions: Who has the orange yarn?

Students: The baby sister cat.

A puzzle for labeling the Cats – Give several students the word part and have them match to the correct family member that other students are holding.

Cat Family Finger Puppets help students create simple dialogues and stories.
Students use the puppets to act out a conversation between family members. (Hello, I am the father cat!)
Students introduce each puppet in simple sentences. (This is the baby brother cat.)

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Town Unit Games for elementary ESL

 This resource for any ESL Instructor is included in Town Flashcards at this Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Town-Flashcards-and-more-for-Elementary-ESL-3713783

Print the Town Unit games to create excitement and curiosity, making students more eager to learn and participate. Students repeatedly hear, see, and use town-related words, improving retention.

Town-Themed Card Game (Picture & Word). Students will connect written words with visual representations, improving retention and perfect for visual learners.

Match Pairs by spreading the picture cards and word cards face up. Players match a picture with its corresponding word. The player with the most matches wins!

Using letter tiles in your town unit gives students a hands-on way to practice spelling, phonics, and vocabulary. Students form town-related words by arranging tiles. Play Word Building Challenge: Provide students with a set of letter tiles. Say and show a town-related word ("PARK"), and students race to spell it with their tiles. Another option is to make crosswords in teams.

"Town Map Placement" Game. It builds listening & comprehension skills. It helps students process and respond to spoken instructions.
Students must think logically to place cards correctly. Students practice placing locations on a realistic town layout.

There are three printable streets as a hands-on, interactive way for students to learn prepositions, directions, and sentence structure. One student gives verbal instructions while another listens and places the buildings accordingly.

 Encourages Writing Practice when your students write sentences describing their town map. One student reads or creates a sentence using a location card (e.g., “The bank is next to the supermarket”). Students take turns being the dictator and the map builder. Students take turns being the dictator and the map builder.

Encourage Speaking & Listening using a board game. The players ask and answer questions (e.g., “Where is your car?” → “My car is at the supermarket.”).

Players roll a die and move their car marker along the town-themed board. The player must say the name of the place before ending their turn.

A variation is a Question & Answer Challenge. When landing on a space, players must answer a question: “Where is your car?” → “It is at the restaurant.”

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