Clothes unit and the Face Vocabulary for ELLs

 This resource is included in the Clothes Unit. CLICK here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Clothes-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-12-6483533

Combining vocabulary topics is a powerful way to help preschool ESL learners build confidence and deepen their understanding of English. By connecting clothes vocabulary with previously learned face vocabulary, students can make meaningful connections and use language more naturally.

In this Clothes Unit for Preschool ESL, these activities integrate facial features and clothing vocabulary to create engaging and interactive lessons. This approach helps learners review, reinforce, and expand their language skills in a fun and effective way.

These activities are part of a complete teaching unit that includes flashcards, small cards, worksheets, games, and crafts — everything you need for low-prep ESL lessons.

 Clothes with a  Face Flashcards

Clothes with a face Flashcards includes depicting different facial features (e.g., eyes, nose, mouth). These include different items of clothing: jeans, shoe, boot, sock, hat, skirt and shirt in different colors. Flashcards can be used to form simple sentences: It’s a yellow hat!

Interactive Flashcard Activities (TPR + Movement)

Incorporate actions into the flashcard activities. Show a card with a face and have students can touch their own faces and name the parts.

Teacher: What is this?
Students: a shoe!
Teacher: Look at the eyes! Touch your eyes!
Students: eyes!

Creative Drawing with Flashcards

Flashcards are a dynamic and engaging tool that can hold the attention of young learners. What about placing the card inside a clear plastic sheet and having the students color and draw the parts of the face. My example is with a boot, but students can do it with any other flashcard and show their work.

Using flashcards for drawing activities encourages creativity while reinforcing vocabulary, take a look!

Small Cards & Word Building Activities

There are the small cards for printing purpose and for using with small groups. Enhance literacy skills for kindergarten English language learners by building clothing words. Ask students to use the magnetic letters to spell out the word that matches the picture.

Worksheets (Face + Clothes Integration)

Print the Worksheets that integrate facial features and clothing vocabulary. Reinforce vocabulary recognition as you dictate how to color the parts of the body: Color the eyes green!
Teacher: What’s missing?
Students: the ears!
Teacher Draw and color blue ears.

 Worksheets that combine facial features and clothing vocabulary help reinforce learning through structured practice.

Worksheets activities like coloring support comprehension and vocabulary retention.

A pair of dice and a worksheet work for fun. Have the dice ready as they are easy to assemble Students throw the dice and color as the dice land. In this example: a purple boot.

When all the items are colored, have the students describe them to you. They can cut the items and create a small closet. Add chenille behind the items to hang and an opened clip to the items that stand.

Games (Face + Clothes Integration)

The goal of this game is to connect all the dominoes by matching the images with another correct picture.

Print, cut and have the domino tiles ready to play. Mix the tiles and distribute them among the players.  One player starts by placing a domino on the table. The next player must place a domino that matches the image on either end of the first domino. By matching pictures to pictures, students reinforce their understanding of the clothing vocabulary in a playful context.

Using pocket charts is an interactive and visual approach that helps reinforce vocabulary while engaging students in hands-on learning.

Students match the picture cards with the correct word cards. Have students take turns selecting the correct word card and placing it next to the corresponding picture.

Students practice forming phrases.

Students can complete sentences.

I would love to hear about how this resource is working in your classroom. If you’ve had the chance to use it, could you share with me some insights or examples of how you’ve integrated it into your lessons?

Clothes flashcards for preschool ESL students are part of the complete pack, here is the blog post:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/01/link-to-12th-resource-for-your-english.html

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St. Patrick’s Day and the Insects unit for Kindergarten ELL

 This resource is included in the Insects Unit for Kindergarten-Holistic English Series #18. Click here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Insects-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-18-6984205

St. Patrick's Day is a cultural celebration in many countries. Give your students the cultural awareness of this tradition and celebration. I like to include the Holiday into a unit that I am currently teaching or that I just taught and use it as a review.

Language is interactive, so start by showing the Insects in green flashcards in a not real context. They should be able to guess the name of all the insects even in their green coloring body.

Students can use the small cards for self-paced learning. They can practice the insects words in English with this simple activity. Place all the small cards on a table and a sticker or fun foam piece on each one. As the student reads or says each word they can lift and keep the sticker. Then, they will know which words they were able to say or read.

These two worksheets are for reviewing the insects and for you to identify any gap in the understanding of this topic. Students will color, cut and paste on the jar or on the clover. Then, they will show their work: This is my clover. It has a bee, a ladybug and a dragonfly.

Find several strips of picture and a word to trace. Students will follow the lines of each letter to complete the word as they will develop fine motor skills much needed at this age. This is an idea that you can implement. Gather old CDs case and place the strip under the plastic and use dry erase markers for tracing.

Print the St. Patrick's Day and Insects domino game and practice the listening skills as the students will listen to your instructions for playing the game and engage in small conversation between them.

Insects unit printable book ESL kindergarten and reward is here at this blog post:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/07/insects-unit-printable-book-and-rewards.html

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Valentine’s Day and the School Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners

 This resource is part of the School Unit for Kindergarten-Holistic English Series #3. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/School-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-3-5977653

Start by promoting cultural awareness to your young students. This is a widely celebrated in many English-speaking countries, your qwill see many decorations at the stores, malls, and houses. Give your students the chance to become familiar with this Holiday, talk about the traditions such as the card exchange and any other customs that you want to include.

Show the Valentine’s Day flashcards using the school unit words that they already know. Play a short guessing game. Place all the cards facing backwards on the board or table. I wrote a number on each, but it is not necessary.  Have the students guess the flashcard when their turn comes up: Number 2 is an eraser! Teacher: Yes! You are right. Here you are.

Continue with the rest of the players.

Valentine’s Day small cards are for repetition and review of the school unit vocabulary. Use them to help students reinforce what they have learned in the unit.

Glue two heart dollies and leave a space to insert the cards. Place the small cards in the heart and have the students guess the card that is coming: eraser!!!

Two Valentine’s Day Worksheets for extra practice and a fun craft.

Have the students color the school objects as you dictate as a listening activity. Then, they will cut the items and the words and glue them onto heart dollies and make a banner for the classroom as a decoration. I have the banner folded in order to show it off on the picture.

Valentine’s Day Printable Games.

A heart puzzle. Use it for cognitive development. Students will have to through all the words and pictures to analyze and make the match, manipulating and fitting the puzzle pieces together, while enhancing their problem-solving ability.

Valentine’s day Picture Domino with the school items will provide visual support to remember the vocabulary more efficiently.

Valentine’s Day board games call for team building if you want to play the game in pairs and perfect for the Holiday.  They will work to get to the goal faster.

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Valentine’s Day and the Colors Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners

 This resource is included in The Colors Unit for Kindergarten-Holistic English Series #2. Find it at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Colors-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-2-5956256

Drill the color words with the heart flashcards. Encourage students to say the color words aloud.

Play lip reading. Saw this game and think it’s quite cute. Show a flashcard at a time and silently mouth the color of the heart. Have the students say it as loud as possible!

Games will help reinforce grammar points if you feel it necessary for the group. You can play the color bingo as a grammar bingo. When you call the bingo say a complete sentence like: It’s a red heart!

Students will color the hearts any way they want in the playing colors. That will be their game card.

Print and play Color DOMINO! Little colored hearts to engage your preschoolers to analyze them and make connections to place them correctly enhancing their critical thinking skills.

Board games are so much fun for the students to use the language they know in the Valentine’s Day context. They will use the language to play in order to advance in the board circuit.

This is a color word mat for your students to recognize all the colors words from the unit. Students will name the color as they place the word strip on each heart.

And just three more esl colors worksheets to complete the unit. Kindergarteners learn best through hands-on activities, and interactive experiences. They will complete the worksheet and then create a garland to take home for decoration.

The pockets charts can be used in a group, they are big enough to be placed on the device or on a table. They can all participate, making it a collaborative learning activity.

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