Fruit and Veggies Flashcards for Elementary ELLs.

 This resource (Fruit and Vegetables Flashcards for Elementary ELLs) is included in the full pack resource. LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

Print the flashcards to provide strong visual cues to help ELLs connect the fruit and vegetables words with the images. Flashcards make it easy to repeat and reinforce vocabulary, which is essential for language retention in ELLs. The flashcards offer an opportunity for students to practice pronunciation, sentence formation, and simple phrases. Use these for the presentation part of the  english class lesson plan. These are perfect for beginner to early intermediate learners.

What is this? What are these?

Lay out several fruit and vegetables flashcards, some with singular items and others with plural items. Ask questions to help them notice the difference  between singular and plural. Support the pronunciation.

Teacher: "What is it?" Students: It’s an onion.

Teacher: "What are these?"  Students: They are onions.

Show a flashcard and ask about the items: "Is it a tomato?" or "Are they tomatoes?" The students respond appropriately as they position the card under the correct heading. Encourage students to form full sentences.

Talk about the adjectives of colors to describe food items. Integrate speaking, listening, and categorizing activities.

Show a pear flashcard and have students say a full sentence: "The pear is green"

Do the same with the grapes: The grapes are purple.

Proceed to sort the flashcards by colors on the board.

Students can practice grouping by type (fruit vs. vegetable), enhancing their critical thinking and categorization skills. Show some flashcards and ask the students if it’s a fruit or a vegetable and sort it accordingly.

Counting & Sentence Building. How many? Practice both counting and forming correct sentences using singular and plural forms.

Show flashcards with different numbers of fruits or vegetables. Count with your students the number of items in each one.

Ask the students to make sentences using "There is" for one item or "There are" for multiple items.

Teacher: "How many carrots are there?"

Students:  "There are eight carrots."

To talk about favorite fruit and veggie. Ask about preferences.

Ask the students, "What is your favorite fruit?" and "What is your favorite vegetable?"

They choose the flashcard of their preference and say: "My favorite fruit is pear."

What’s your favorite vegetable?

 Ask and answer questions about what you like. Engage students in interactive speaking exercises.

Student 1: Do you like broccoli?

Student 1: No, I don’t.

Introduce to your students that it is "oranges" in plural because it refers to oranges in general, not a specific orange.

Student 1: Do you like oranges?

Student 1: Yes, I do.

Practice sentences using "and" as a coordinating conjunction to connect two items.

Show how to use the conjunction "but" to show contrast between two ideas.

Practice Agreeing with "Too"

Make statements with have to describe possession of fruit and veggies.

Ask the class, "Who has an apple?"
Students: Vilma! Vilma has a big apple.

Talk about things you have and don't have. Understand and use simple present affirmative and negative.
Teacher: What does Lili have?
Students: She has two red apples.
Teacher: Who has a green pencil?
Students: The pineapple.

Offering things to each other. I want--, please.

I have another resource with just 4 fruit and 4 vegetables for more of a beginners level. Here is the link:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetable-beginners-for-Elementary-ELL-2371980

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Birthday Unit Invitations and Cards for Elementary ELLs

  This resource ( Birthday Unit Invitations and Cards for Elementary ELL) is included in The Birthday Unit:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-5279726

These ESL/EFL printable activities 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 fill in invitations with key details: Who: Who is invited?, What: What is the celebration?, When: Date and time, Where: Place of the party

 This helps students practice question words, dates, and simple sentences!

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.

These support writing, creative expression, and social language skills. 

Why This Matters in ELL Classrooms

Invitations and cards give students a purpose for writing — something to make, share, and talk about!

✔ Encourages real-life language use
✔ Practices vocabulary: party, friends, date, time, place
✔ Supports simple sentence writing
✔ Builds confidence with functional writing tasks

These are perfect for writing stations, small groups, or homework practice.

Whether you’re teaching vocabulary review, speaking fluency, or collaborative skills, adding games to your lessons turns learning into a fun classroom experience!  Go to this blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/09/birthday-unit-games-for-elementary-ells.html 

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Birthday Unit Games for Elementary ELLs

 This resource (Birthday Unit Games for Elementary ELLs (ESL/EFL Classroom Printables & Activities)  is included in The Birthday Pack:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-5279726

Help your elementary English Language Learners (ELLs) practice and retain birthday vocabulary through fun, meaningful games! These Birthday Unit games are designed to support your production stage in lesson planning by encouraging students to use new language with play, interaction, and collaboration.

Games introduce vocabulary and phrases in a real-life context, helping language stick while reducing student anxiety. Play builds motivation, boosts communication, and makes practicing vocabulary fun!

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 with Language Prompts

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 with Cut-Out Letters

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.

Whether you’re teaching vocabulary review, speaking fluency, or collaborative skills, adding games to your lessons turns learning into a fun classroom experience! 

These small cards are part of the complete Birthday Unit resource, which includes flashcards, games, worksheets, and more! You can find the full unit on Teachers Pay Teachers for a thematic, joyful lesson plan that supports vocabulary, speaking, reading, and writing.

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Birthday Unit Worksheets for Elementary ELLs

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These printing Birthday Unit worksheets are designed to help elementary English language learners (ELLs) practice vocabulary, reading comprehension, and sentence structure using a theme students love: birthdays! This collection of engaging worksheets supports meaningful language learning and fits perfectly into your 3P lesson plans (Presentation, Practice, Production).

These worksheets practice vocabulary and language structures that are useful both inside and outside the classroom, such as cake, balloons, candles, presents and more. 

Vocabulary Matching

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

Writing & Tracing Worksheets

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

Read & Color Activities

Read and color the cake by birthday words worksheets.

Word Search

A fun search activity where students find birthday-related words to reinforce spelling and visual scanning skills. 

Sentence Completion

Learners complete sentences using key vocabulary to strengthen basic grammar and sentence structure.

Read the sentences and draw the picture as described Worksheets,etc.

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.

How to Use These Worksheets in Your ELL Classroom

✅ Warm-Up: Start with matching cards or the word search for engaging review.
✅ Pair Work: Have students ask and answer “How old are you?” with each other using the worksheets.
✅ Independent Practice: Assign the tracing and coloring pages for reading and writing support.
✅ Assessment: Use complete sentence and “How old are you?” pages as informal comprehension checks.

There are more worksheets to engage your ELL Students with Fun Birthday-Themed Worksheets! These worksheets focus on vocabulary, numbers, reading comprehension, and sentence-building—all within the context of a theme that students love: Birthdays!

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Skills Practiced

✔ Vocabulary recognition (birthday objects)
✔ Reading comprehension with visuals
✔ Writing and tracing for early literacy
✔ Sentence structure with basic grammar
✔ Number and age practice in context 

 

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