"Creative Ways to Use Emotion Small Cards in the ELL Classroom"

 This resource can be found here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Emotions-Unit-for-Elementary-EFL-2023631

The Emotions small cards are especially useful for pair and group work. Using small cards keeps lessons active, gives every learner a chance to participate, and makes vocabulary practice more fun and memorable.

 Students can play matching or memory by cutting the word out of each card. Then, name each emotion.

Find My Match. Give each student a small card (half the class gets words, the other half pictures). Students walk around asking: “Are you happy?” until they find their match. Once matched, pairs sit down together.

Speaking practice. Children can pick any card and make a sentence (“I am shocked”).

Emotion Charades. One student draws a small card without showing it. They mime the emotion. The class guesses: “You are angry!”

Emotion Wheel. Students move the wheel and says a sentence about the person shows (“He is worried”). The partner judge the sentence.

Emotion Bag. Place cards inside a bag. There is a label for your lunch bag. Students draw one and must answer your question:
Teacher: How are you today?
B: I am embarrassed!

Ask questions Yes/No questions with be using the small cards on their notebooks: Is she shocked?

I've gathered interactive games, worksheets, and creative ideas to for this unit!

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Beach Prepositions Activities with Sandcastle and Crab | ESL ELL

 This resource is included in Beach Unit for Elementary at this link:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Beach-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-4075972

This resource gives students a fun and meaningful way to practice prepositions in context to include in your lesson plan. Using a playful sandcastle and a red crab helps young learners visualize spatial relationships. The activities support comprehension, speaking, and sentence-building skills.

Copy Cat Writing and Drawing Flashcard Activity. Use thin paper to place it over the top of the flash card and copy with markers and crayons. They can also copy out the prepositions.

Show your class any preposition flashcard and ask questions: Where is the crab?

Ask questions to your students, but fold the preposition word on the flash card.

Listen & Draw the Crab Worksheet. Students practice understanding prepositions in context. Then, show the flashcard for them to check.

Write a Sentence. Students draw a picture small card and a preposition card, then say or write a sentence (e.g., The crab is under the sandcastle.).

Roll and color the Prepositions Worksheet. A student rolls the preposition die. Depending on the preposition it lands on (e.g., on, under, next to, in front of, behind, in), they find the matching picture on the worksheet. As a speaking practice: After rolling, students say the sentence aloud (The crab is under the sandcastle.) before coloring.

Fill-in-the-blank worksheet with prepositions. Provide a word bank with prepositions (in, on, under, behind, next to, in front of) using the small cards or flashcrads from the resource.

Color-by-instruction worksheet — very effective for ELLs because it combines reading comprehension, vocabulary, and coloring fun.

A Q&A worksheet helps students practice both forming and answering questions with prepositions. Then do a Pair Work Role-Play, where One student asks: “Where is the red crab?”The partner answers: “It is under the sandcastle.”

Read the sentence on the worksheet and draw + color the crab in the correct place on the sandcastle. It encourages careful reading and understanding of simple preposition sentences.

Sandcastle + Crab Cutouts. Teacher says: “Put the crab under the sandcastle.” Students move the crab cutout to the correct position. It builds listening comprehension and preposition vocabulary.

I also added a sentence puzzle set to the resource! Each puzzle piece has part of a sentence with the sandcastle and crab images. Students put the pieces together to form complete sentences, such as “The red crab is next to the sandcastle.” This activity helps learners practice reading, sentence structure, and preposition vocabulary in a hands-on way.

Students move along the path on the board game, read the spaces, and practice prepositions in a playful way. It’s a great way to bring all the activities together and give students extra practice in a fun, cooperative format.

 

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Haunted House Numbers 1–20 | Halloween Math Activities for ELLs

 This resource is included in the House Unit for Elementary-Starters at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

Bring spooky fun into your lessons with this Haunted House Numbers resource! Perfect for Halloween, this set helps students practice numerals, number words, and sequencing from 1–20 through engaging, hands-on activities. Designed for English language learners.

Halloween Flashcard bingo. Use the 20 flashcards for this activity. Stick them on the blackboard.  Handout the Bingo grid with and have the students write the name of any number in each square (encourage them to check spelling to do this as necessary).  When children are ready, remove the flashcards one by one and say the names.  Children listen and write a cross on the word if it is in their grid. The first child to write a cross on all six words in their grid calls Bingo! and is the winner.

Haunted House Number Line. Place the flashcards 1–20 on the board in order. Remove 2–3 numbers. Students guess which “ghost numbers” are missing.

Tracing Activity. Place a clear plastic sheet over the number word worksheet. Students use a dry-erase marker to trace the number words. This activity can be repeated multiple times, helping students practice writing skills and reinforcing number word recognition in a fun, reusable way.

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Knock-knock the small cards. Place cards face down on the desk like “doors” in a haunted house. Students “knock” on a door (flip a card) and must read/say the number word. If correct, they “enter the haunted room” (keep the card).

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Magic Number Sentence. Students draw a number card and make a short sentence with it.  “There are nineteen ghosts in the Haunted House”. Hand the Halloween token if it is correct.

Speaking opportunity!

I am / You are Sentences. A student picks a small card and says: I am number fifteen. You are number twenty. (Identify what the other partner has)

Students match a numeral to its word worksheet. Then write the word on their notebooks.

Students color each numeral on the worksheet they find a specific color, then write the word with that color on their notebooks.

Cut-and-Paste Matching worksheets.  Students cut out the numeral cards and paste them onto the haunted houses with the correct number of ghosts.

  Students read the number word sequence in the worksheet, then, they fill in the missing number words in the blanks.  This activity builds reading fluency, spelling, and understanding of number order.

 Students are given a grid worksheet with numerals and haunted house images.   They complete the grid by writing the next number words in the empty spaces.   This activity helps with number recognition, spelling, and strengthens the numeral–word connection.

Game-Printable board like Snakes & Ladders but students can only climb/slide if they read the number correctly.

Matching Mats (Haunted House Theme). Students receive mats with haunted houses and sets of numerals and number words cards. They match the numeral to the correct haunted house and then place the number word. Great for independent work.

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Emotions adjectives Flashcards to describe people

 This resource can be found here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Emotions-Unit-for-Elementary-EFL-2023631

Emotions are the feelings we have inside. It is important that English students learn to use these expressions.

Students can see a clear picture of the emotion on the flashcard and connect it with the word. They also allow for interactive activities such as matching, role-playing, games, and question-and-answer practice, which helps children remember the vocabulary and use it in real situations.

This activity helps students connect the visual image, body language, and spoken sentence. Hold an emotion flashcard and ask: How does he feel?

Student: (Miming) He is worried.

Shows more cards for the students to act it out.

Ask more questions to check comprehension and use of the new language. Students can also be the ones to ask the questions: Is she shy?

Student: Yes, she is.

Ask the students for any emotion: Who is sad? Any student that has the emotion will raise the hand and say: I am sad.

Activity: How Are You Today?

Ask a student to pick any emotion flashcard. Then ask, “How are you today?”
The student holds the card and answer, “I am confused.”

This activity gives students practice in first-person sentences

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Activity: Match the Word and Picture

Cut the word off each flashcard. Place the picture cards on one side of the board and the word cards on the other.

Ask students to come to the board and match each picture card with the correct word card.

This activity helps students connect written words with visual images,

Activity: Or Questions

Teacher: Hold up a flashcard and ask, “Is she happy or sad?”
Student: Answer, “She is happy or sad”

This activity helps students listen carefully,

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Communication Practice

Question & Answer – Teacher holds up a card: “Are you angry?” Student answers: “Yes, I am / No, I’m not.” They make the corresponding face.

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