Transportation Unit Flashcards for Kindergarten English Language Learners

 This complete Transportation Unit for kindergarten English language learners includes printable flashcards, worksheets, games, small cards, cutouts, speaking activities, vocabulary practice, sorting tasks, and hands-on ESL resources designed especially for preschool and kindergarten students.LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Transportation-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-23-7677315

Introduce transportation vocabulary in a fun and engaging way with these Transportation Unit Flashcards for preschool and kindergarten English language learners. The flashcards include colorful vehicles such as cars, buses, trains, airplanes, helicopters, trucks, bicycles, ships, and motorcycles to help young ESL and EFL students practice vocabulary recognition, speaking skills, colors, adjectives, and sentence building.

These printable transportation flashcards are perfect for circle time, literacy centers, speaking practice, vocabulary review, sorting activities, and hands-on learning for preschool and kindergarten English learners.

 

Transportation Unit Flashcards to identify and describe vehicles

 Use them for more repetition and get your students to memorize those new words. Play with the printable flashcards as much as you can. There are several activities to do in class. The set includes: car, bus,boat, plane,train, truck,bike, helicopter,ship.

Practice Transportation Vocabulary Questions and Answers

Review the key language: What is this?

Place all the same kind of transportation flashcards on the board. Say a model sentence and have the students repeat.

Teacher: It’s a yellow car!

Students: It’s a blue car!

Then, students can identify the colors of all the cars.

Vehicles Speaking Activities for Kindergarten English Learners

   Ask questions with the motorcycle flashcards.

Teacher: What's this?

Students: It's a motorcycle.

Practice Colors and Vehicles Vocabulary

Use the trucks flashcards for even more speaking!

Teacher: What color is this truck?

Students: white! It's a white truck.

Transportation Colors Vocabulary Activity

     Place all your students in a large circle depending on how many students you have in class. Hand in a flashcard to each student. Name a flashcard. Teacher: car!
That student with the car flashcard must say the word and show his/her flashcard to the circle. Then, he/she says another word from the flashcards within the circle of the students.
Student 1: truck!
Continue with more students.

 What color is it?
Place the flashcards on the board and ask questions.
Teacher: What is this?
Students: a car!
Teacher: What color is it?
Students: yellow!
Teacher: It’s a yellow car!

     Practice Big and Small with Vehicles Vocabulary

Review size concepts while reviewing transportation vocabulary. Students take turns placing the transportation flashcards under the correct heading on the classroom board, deciding whether each vehicle belongs to the big or small category. This hands-on game encourages speaking.

Teacher: It’s a big airplane!
Students: It’s a small airplane.
or
Teacher: This car is big!
Students: This car is small.

 Long and Short Transportation Activities 

Teach comparison concepts while practicing transportation vocabulary. Students take turns placing the transportation flashcards under the correct heading on the classroom board, deciding whether each vehicle is long or short. This hands-on activity encourages children to observe. 

Teacher: It’s a long truck!
Students: It’s a short truck.
Ask questions.
Teacher: Is this train long or short?
Students: It’s short .

Introduce left and right using the flashcards 

Have the students sort the transportation vehicles by how they are facing either left or right.

These flashcards work for introducing new and old.

Teacher: This is a new car. This is an old car.

Sort Transportation by Land, Air, and Water

 The activity uses a classroom sorting board with three categories: land, water, and air. Students take turns choosing a transportation flashcard, naming the vehicle, and placing it in the correct section.  The sorting game can be used for:Vocabulary introduction and review.

How does the vehicle travel?
Teacher: The bus travels on land.
Students: The truck travels on land.
Continue with water and air.
Teacher: Where is the ship?
Students: It's on the water.
Teacher: Where does the bus go?
Student: It goes on land.

   Transportation Action Verbs Activities

 Have the students imitate the actions as you show the flashcard.
Teacher: Fly the plane!!
Drive the train!!

Ride the bicycle!

Students will discuss that people use different means of transportation.

Ask questions with HOW?

Teacher: How are you going to school?

Student: I am going by car.

Transportation Graphing and Speaking Activity

      Ask your students and graph how they come to school.

Counting Activities with Transportation Vocabulary

    Count the doors and windows in each vehicle. Make a graph. Students can also sort by doors, wheels and by color of the vehicles.

Transportation Vocabulary Small Cards for Preschool ESL, go to the blog post: 

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