Greetings and Farewwells Resource

 Greetings and Farewwells Resource

This resource is for teaching starters or Elementary English Language Learners. It comes with flashcards, small cards, worksheets and a flap book with a focus on promoting communicate language.

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This is usually the first class with your Elementary English Language Learners. Prepare your students to use greetings and introductions.Prepare your students for cultural awareness.

Greet your students with your hand as you wave your hand to say Hello! Or hi! Have the class greet each other.

Introduce yourself by writing your name on the board and touching yourself and saying: My name’s _____.

Greetings Unit Flashcards

Use the downloadable Greetings flashcards for the language functions on how to use the greetings: Hi!, Hello! And to introduce oneself.

Impulse communication skills. Put the Greetings flashcards around the classroom. Point to one and say:

Hi, I am Tina.

Encourage your students to point to other flashcards and read the sentence and say a similar one to introduce themselves.

Display any of the flashcards with simple dialogues around the room and say the word or sentence. Have a student go and point to the correct one. Perfect for language practice.

Place the flashcards on the board or a clear plastic sheet and introduce the contraction: I'm. Have the students do the same with each flashcard as a reinforcement.

There is a set small cards for easy printing or small groups teaching. Cut the words out of the card. Place the picture part around the classroom and hand in the written part strip to each student. Have them walk around matching to the picture.

Then, ask questions: What's her name?

Student: Erika

Make craft stick puppets with the small cards. Use them to ask questions:
Is she a girl?
Students: Yes, she is.

This one can be to greet the students and have them answer.

Make a stick puppet by cutting the person on the flashcard or small card and adding a straw. Elicit and ask questions to your students.

Greetings Unit Worksheets

More language to practice with this set of worksheets for guided writing practice. It is for asking and answering questions. It has trace and write the new words.

 How are you? I am fine, thanks. Students can work in pairs and perform the dialogue.

Write the vowels worksheet. Students will do a little spelling here by filling in the blanks with the vowels.

This is a worksheet to give information about oneself. Present student the language for asking people's name. Students should also be able to give their name.

The selfie worksheet. Students can draw themselves in the phone screen template or cut a famous person from a magazine. Then, complete the sentences. Have them produce the language: I’m+name. /My name’s__

Activity idea 1: Put all the selfie worksheets in a bag or box. Pull one out and show it to the class. Ask: Who is it?

Students: It's Rosa Amelia!

Have the class greet with: Hi, How are you?

Conitnue by sleecting another worksheet.

Activity idea 2: Gather all the worksheets, glue and make a poster to use as classroom decoration.

If your students are more into writing texts on their own, these worksheets are great for them. They will write information about themselves. Students can take turns showing their work to small groups or to the class.

 Social interaction can be done as students can walk around with their worksheet asking the question: What’s your name? and writing down the answer.

Questionnaires are interactive and encourage active participation. Students will actively engage in collecting data and practice all language skills

Practice his and her with this worksheet.

A pocket chart is a fun collaborative activity. Keep the pocket chart accessible. Hang it on the wall or a special place where all the students can see it as a visual reference.

Students can make their name card for their desks or print the ones available in this resource. When all the name cards are on the desks, have a group of students stand up and walk around the classroom greeting the students by their name that are sitting down.

Another activity would be: Point to a name card and drill the questions: What is his/her name?
Class: His name is David.

A wrap up activity to make this greetings flap book. This kind of book will focus on cross-cultural learning into how we greet in another language.

 Print both pages for each student. Have them staple on the side and cut along the horizontal lines from the first page to make the flaps.

Students will answer to all to all the phrases or questions on the front flap.

Have your students play with another student reading and answering what is written on the other side of the flap. They can take home the flap book to ask questions to their family members.

There's a video to see the complete activity.

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Lesson Plan Example for English Language Learners

 Lesson Planning is the pillar of your teaching to young learners. I use the 3P's method, which is Presentation, Practice and Production. Adding, Warm up in the beginning and Wrap up at the end, in total 5 steps.

Here is an example using one of my resources.

STEP 1-Warm up. This is a short step. Use a simple game to either review something that you taught last lesson or an easy concept that might be fun to check. I chose the numbers 1 to 10, within an insect theme.

I have this set of number cards. I would give each student a random card and have them show me the card as I name it.
Teacher: Show me number six!
Students: six! (all students with number six , either in numeral or words should show the card)

Then, call all groups. Teacher: All the beehives, stand here. All the butterflies go to the door. All the number words sit down. All the numbers go to the window.

And that will be it! Short and easy and getting the students into the mood for starting the class.

Step 2. Presentation. Focus on the main grammar and the vocabulary items for the unit. Maybe this is your second class with the insects unit. Review the vocabulary with the flashcards. Place them on the board and ask the students: What can you see?

Students: a butterfly!!

Introduce the parts of the body of the insects using the flashcards.

Teacher: This is the antennae. (Point and write the word)

Continue with the rest of the body of any insect.

 Then have the students find all the insects with wings and show the wings in each one.

There is a magnifying glass that you can create for another activity. Have the students use the device to look for the body parts in each flashcards as they name one.

Student: antennae! Wings!!

Step 3. Practice. This part can be done using the worksheets or your workbook.There a different level of worksheets for reviewing the body parts.

Step 4. Production. Use a set of games available, easy to print. Students can play in small groups. Platying games give the stduents the opportunity to listen and speak with their peers.

There's Domino, Bingo, file folder games, game board and a puzzle.

Step 5. Wrap up your class in those last 5 or 10 minutes left. I would use the fly swatter game with the small cards that I can set up in the classroom meanwhile the students are playing the games.

Have the students come up one at a time to swat a fly or any other insect that you lined up. When the student swats a card he/she can pick up their school supplies and leave the classroom or make a line.

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Teaching Writing to your Kindergarten English Language Learner

 Reading and researching a little on the topic, I noticed that I do include almost all that the kids needs to develop the pre-writing skill much needed in the future school years. Consider that each student have different needs that you might have to address.

I will go directly to the things that you can include in your lesson plan to reinforce the fine motor skills in your students.

1. Crafts! I know many teachers think it's a waste of time and a mess. I would do lots of crafts for the Holidays mainly. Students love it and cutting, pasting and manipulating the supplies is so good for them.

2. Cutouts. I include cutouts in all the resources. Here is an example of a sorting the cutouts into big and small. Students will use their fingers to manipulate the cutouts and put them in the corresponding bag.

3.Drawing. Students can draw on a blank paper the family, their pet, their favorite toys, anything that you are teaching. I have an example here of a worksheet that the students have to draw the hat of the community helper that they would like to be in the future.

4. Clothespin. Use the clothespin to play several games in class. The use of the fingers to grasp them is a great exercise.

5. Scissors and glue. Any worksheet or activity that includes cutting and gluing, that involves the scissors and sqeezing the glue.

6.Copying. Some students are at the copying words phase. Give them fun foam letters, dollar tree letters or magnetic letters so they can write words that you are teaching. I use the small cards from all the resources that I create.

7. Tracing. It is easy and fun for students to achieve it. After the tracing I love making puppets for other games in class.

8.Make books. The books that I have for each unit comes with a tracing sentences if your students are up for it, if not, it doesn't make a difference. But just making their own book, either a group book or an individual book, gives them a sense of value of writing.

9. Throw the bean bag game. If you make a bean bag, use as often as you can to enhance the hand-eye coordination. Use it with flashcards,small cards, cutouts, anything.

10.Follow the lines. It can be a worksheet or lines on the floor made with chalk, masking tape.

11. Puzzles. Students will have to use their hands to move the pieces. I include one or two on each unit. It is a game that students can play in small groups.

12. REWARD. Above all, reward your students. They are making an effort. There is a reward for each unit as well.

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Reading for Kindergarten EFL

 So much to read on this topic that can be useful to our particular English Language Learner that is in Kindergarten and learning to read their own mother tongue language and attempting to read another new language. I just gathered a few statements and tips to get you started. 

That's a picture of me during a read aloud activity at a local school many years ago. The editorial had these big books which are wonderful for big classes.

Teaching to read in English to these very young learners start with learning the sounds. Do you have the instruction for reading the sounds? Then, just fine. If you don't, then read a little about it to gain the knowledge to help your students as much as you can.

As I create the lesson plan, I put a big emphasis on listening and speaking activities, new vocabulary and using it along old vocabulary.  I also plan a reading activity for each unit as a book that students put together. It can be read in class and sent them home for the students to read with their parents. You won't have to worry about the book getting lost or damaged. Read the book that you made in class or any other that you have from your library. Here is an example of one of the books, you can reread the books over and over again.

                         This is how the big book looks inside.

It is important to show the students the pictures and ask questions, such as What is this? and show the print as you read, point to the words.  Many students are able to memorize parts of the story and encourage them to read with you. There is always a prediction part in each story, just point it out and have your students predict what will happen next.

                 Hope these tips will help you out in your class to understand and use the language. 

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Speaking Skill for the Kindergarten English Language Learner.

 There is a lot of information, research and more for adults on the speaking skill but for our young learners it is hard to find. I have been reading and I guess that by my experience is what I will write about a few ideas.

Children will start speaking English at their own pace, just like the way they speak their mother tongue, some do it so fast that it is amazing, others take more time. I have twins, both would understand and speak Spanish which is our Mother tongue and English came easily for one twin and not for the other. Today, both are fluent in both languages. As for my students I have had the opportunity to see them older and be amazed at how well  they can speak English.Even some students that didn't speak a thing in class were very fluent in English.

 My advice, keep doing all you can in class for the speaking skill, it will be different for each of your students. They will speak at their own time, be patient. Here are some things that you can do!

1. Use the responsive speaking as your students give short replies to questions. 

Teacher: What color is this?

Students: Yellow!!

2. Engage students in speaking activities. Have them name patterns, such as boy, girl, boy, girl.

3. Use short and simple drills. It can be anything. My example: look, a pencil. Look, a book. Look, a chair. Look, a table. 

4. Use extensive speaking and prepare show and tell activities. I always include a draw something about the unit worksheet which are perfect for the show and tell. Let me add one here.

5. Use props to aid students into speaking. It can be I like bananas as in the picture. Puppets are useful, too.

6. Promote interaction through pair and group work. I can't say it enough, games are a must for the younger stduents. It makes them speak without knowing! Here is one of the games taht I include in each unit.

7. Use short and simple sentences that you can model for them to repeat at their own pace.

I am sure that you have more ideas to comment below!

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Listening in the kindergarten EFL class

 Listening is a much debated topic for the teaching community. Do you do a lot of listening with your kindergarten students? Do put a lot of viseos to keep them busy? Do you use the CD that comes with the book series that you are using ? Or, are your speaking all the time and your students just listening?

It is said that usually students do more listening in class that speaking. And, yes, it is important that students do a lot of listening before they start speaking. Open with model sentences that they can recreate with other vocabulary.

There some types of classroom listening performance that we should include in our lesson planning.

Reactive listening in which or students will listen to any word, stucture and repeat it.Great for choral drills.

Responsive listening where you want a response from your students. 
When you greet them at the door, you say Hi! and they inmediately answer: Hi! 

When you give them commands such as: stand up,sit down, come here, color, cut, show me, draw!

When you check comprehension as you dictate something for a worksheet or activity book: Color the square yellow!

Play games where students have to point to a picture or flashcard as they listen to what is said.

Have students draw, or color to what you say.

Model sentences, phrases for your students to repeat as you show flashcards.

Ask questions about any drawing, something on the student book or flashcards.

As you write your lesson plan, make sure to include listening activities. Plan any listening resources that will be of interest of your young learners.There are many games that make them speak and have others listen.

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