Farm Unit Chicken for ELL

 This resource is part of the Farm Unit. You can check it out here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Farm-Animals-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-25-7973567

Make it easy for your students to understand and use the new vocabulary with the focus on chicken for kindergarten or preschoolers.

There is a chicken Flashcard in every color.

Ask questions about the farm animals:

What color is this chicken?

Students: red!!

You can also review the parts of the face and the body of the chicken.

Place the chicken flashcards on the floor in two straight rows with enough space for the students to stand or sit next to it. Call on a student to find and do the action as you say: Carlos, stand next to the white chicken! Belen, sit next to the red chicken!

Students can also stand next to each flashcard and say what it is: a brown chicken!

 This matching activity is a basic mental skill to develop in your students. They will work on the concept of the same color. Place the chicken flashcards on one side of the board and the farm on the other. Have them match with a line each one, model an example sentence: the gray chicken in a gray farm.

More matching can be done using the small cards. The idea is to improve your students’ visual memory and to recognize that there is a pattern to follow. Use these to present or reinforce the new vocabulary. 

Provide extra practice with 3 comprehension worksheets in which your students will read the descriptive sentence (I see a (color) chicken) and they have to color each chicken in accordance with the sentence they have read or that you have read for them. Have children underline each color word.

Turn the worksheets in a book Just have children cut the strips of each picture and sentence and fit them into a book with a staple. Students can share their book at home and read with their parents.

Do even more and have the students circle the word a, color the word see and trace the word I.

There is a set of finger puppets with a chicken in every color. They are wonderful to encourage interaction between the students and you and themselves.
Try to establish a dialogue asking questions: What color are you?
Student: I am red!
Teacher: Are you a red chicken?
Students: yes!

Let’s wrap it up with a puzzle that students can work on their own. This is a visual problem- solving kind of two piece puzzle with a color word and a chicken. Have the students say basic phrases as they match the color to the chicken: a purple-chicken.

Find more that is included in this farm unit resource starting at this blog post. 

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2023/09/farm-unit-chicken-for-ell.html

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