School Unit for Elementary English Language Learners

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This resource comes with 24 small School Unit flashcards. Use them to have your students identify the school supplies.

Here are some Flashcards Ideas to introduce or review the classroom or school objects vocabulary.

1. Who has it ?  Game : pass out all the school flashcards to some students in the class. Call out a word that is on a card. The student with that card has to stand up, show the card and say the word. Continue with all the playing cards.

2.  YES or NO puppets: Make the puppets by printing the template onto cardboard and gluing a craft stick behind each puppet.

Hold up a school flashcard and ask: Is it a (table) ?

Prompt the students to nod(YES) or shake(NO) their heads and answer YES or NO.  And you can also use the YES and NO puppet.

If the answer is YES, have them repeat: Yes, It´s a pen.(Show the yes puppet)

If the answer is NO, have them repeat NO, it isn´t a table. It's a crayon. (Show the NO puppet)

3. Review or Evaluation:

Place on the board  or table a flashcard. Say a word or sentence. Have the child point to the flashcard. 

Teacher: eraser. It´s an eraser.

Student:( Points) eraser.

Put a different pair of flashcards and repeat.

Teacher: board. It´s a board.

Student:( Points) board.

Teacher: Very Good.

The prize or reward for your students. Print and tape a safety pin behind each prize. As each student masters the flashcards give the prize.

4. Another Game: Display all the flashcards with a number under each one. The teacher or the student names a flashcard in a random order and the class says the number . Then say a number  and the class says the flashcard word or a sentence: The scissors are red.

Bingo Game: 

Distribute the blank bingo grid to each student. Have the students fill in 7 school words. Draw a random card and call it out so that the student can look for the word in their bingo grid and cross it off. When a student  has  crossed out all the words , he or she calls out  BINGO !  

Also make your call out Bingo folder. I made two sets, a black and white one and a colored version. Print the black and white small cards  onto colored  paper and the colored set onto white paper. As you call out the words just place them on the folder where they belong. Using this system children can play  in small groups.

 School theme book:

Give students the chance to read. Read to them or have them read after they know the vocabulary words. This is a decodable book that builds on previously taught words, helping students gain confidence and fluency. You can conduct guided reading so students can follow along, make as many copies as needed, maybe one for 2 students. Have students reread with their partner.  It can be used on electronics as a pdf file.

               

           There is another book.

School unit Task cards: make the  copies need. Laminate for further use. Display a set of cards to each group of 4 or 6 students. 

Students select their task card and write the answer in their notebook in the order of their preference.

This is a school unit memory matching game. It can be used to assess the students by connecting the cards. Print the sets of cards, one with pictures and another with the names of the school objects. Divide the class into groups of no more than 4. Hand each group a set of cards. Have the students spread the cards facing up on the table and take turns connecting the corresponding names and pictures. The student who correctly connects the most pairs of cards wins. 

 school unit Pocket charts: so many uses in the classroom, get one because I´ll be posting many ideas. This is a simple matching the phrase to the picture. After they finish students can write all phrases in their notebooks.

Let’s start by introducing the Prepositions Flashcards.

Here are some examples on how to use the flashcards to introduce the grammar structures: 

 

  I prepared a School unit sentence association game. I did it in a different way this time. I placed the pictures pages in a clear sheet and then cut all the sentences into cards. The aim of the game is to match the sentence card to each picture.

Watch the video on how to use the game. The game can be done placing the sentences in the clear sheets and the cards will be the pictures.

The school unit cutouts! Now when distance learning is on demand, I researched that most teachers use cutouts. I love cutouts. I started using them when teaching with the book Sprinkles. The cutouts can be used for many things.

The cutouts can be used on the board. I made two examples. But the cutouts are great for using them within your lesson plan.

Give the students the cutouts and have them place them where they want and say a sentence. It a nice speaking activity. My children did it for me, I did not make any corrections. Watch the video.

Here is the picture of the end of the activity, I had to trim the video. Have the students draw their own picture inspired on the cutouts activity. Then, write a description.

Sometimes holding the cutouts with your hand might be complicated if you are doing distance learning. I glued a craft stick behind each cutout and made a short VIDEO demonstration on how to teach using the cutouts. Obviously, have the students repeat after you. Then, ask questions as you put up the cutouts.

 Make a school unit book. The students read the sentences and complete the book by gluing the school items where they belong.

Watch the video and see how I put it together. Have the students read the book using a pointer:

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                                  Let’s start with Flashcards.

                           Introduce Grammar points.

Tracer book: It helps extend the vocabulary. There is a black and white version for the students to color and create their own book to take home.

When the students finish tracing the sentences on their books, start reading. Assign a color to identify each sight word.

Teacher: Circle the word “it” red.

Teacher: Circle the word “is” blue.

Teacher: Circle the word “a” yellow.

Help the students assemble the book. I made this one by punching a hole on the side and connected using a metal ring. Read again using a straw as a pointer, have them look for specific words.

Teacher: Look for the word “Spring”. Use your pointer. 

                   A set of matching words and pictures cards.

Students in groups can match each picture to each word.

Another game: Have the students place all the cards face up on the table. Say a word and have them find the word and the picture.

Teacher: Find “sun”.

Students: sun!  Student shows the picture and the word.

Paper plates are great for sorting the vocabulary words into seasons. Write each Season word on each paper plate.

I found this game and gave it a try. Let me know if you liked it.

There is a sunscreen lotion clipart to make a card holder. You can use it to play a guessing game by slowly taking a card out and having the children guess what it is.

Spelling BINGO! Spelling is related to the students’ reading and writing abilities. Give students the template and ask them to write 6 of all the words of their choice. You can use the matching cards as calling cards. Students cross out the words called out. The winner is the first one to cross the 6 words.

Some worksheets for extra practice.

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Seasons and verbs for ESL

In many books it is under the label of Seasonal Activities. This is the last blog post related to the Seasons Unit. I have posted Seasons and Months, Seasons and Weather, Seasons and Clothes, Seasons and Nature. Just continue scrolling the blog posts to check them out! Everything is under one product:
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 There are many verbs related to each Season. First, here are the flashcards.

Sort the Flashcards into Seasons on the blackboard.

Teacher: What season is this?

Students: It is Winter.

Teacher: What is he doing?

Students: He is building a snowman.

Place each Season Flashcard on the blackboard. Have the students look into all the flashcards and find the Activities(Verbs) that can be done in each Season.

Teacher: What season is this?

Students: It is Fall.

Teacher: What do we do in the Fall?

Students: Play with the leaves, sit on the pumpkins, rake the leaves, and walk.

                                    Do the same with the other Seasons.

You can use many Verb Tenses with the flashcards. Start with CAN. Use the flashcards to model questions and sentences on the board.

                                        Or model Present Continuous.

                 Or you can introduce the simple past tense questions.

                                     Maybe you can review the future.

As in all the Seasons Units, there is a Sorting Worksheet.

And just two worksheets.

Students complete the worksheet. Then have them cut each picture and glue next to the sentences on their notebooks.

The other worksheet will be used as a BINGO template as well. Using either the colored flashcards placed on the board or the small cards used for the sorting, students write the activities that can be done and the ones that can’t be done in each Season, completing the worksheet in an allotted amount of time, maybe 5 minutes. Some students will have more verbs than others, but that is the idea. Then, announce the BINGO! Use the colored flashcards to call the Verbs. The students will cross out the verb word if they have it written down. The winner is the first one to cross out all the words.

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