Name Worksheets for Preschool ELA

                    Here are a few more free worksheets.

Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Name-Worksheets-for-the-Preschool-ELA-2836216

 

Students will ask people's name and be able to give their name using the structure: What's your name?

Practice Name recognition and spelling with each child. Most of them come to the EFL Class knowing how to write their name. Use the worksheet as an assessment. You will be able to tell the homeroom teacher if they need extra practice with this.

Names identify children. They can draw themselves, but write their name downward as in the picture. 

Print the numbers and line them up on the board. Have each student count the letters in their name and place it under the corresponding number.

Names can be written with a crayon, a pencil and even a marker. But Names can be written on everything, such as a book, scissors, erasers, glue and more. Use the worksheet as a review for school items.

                        Two props to use on the board for writing the name. At this point of the unit students should be able to introduce oneself.

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Zoo or Jungle Theme for the Preschool ESL

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Zoo-Animals-Unit-for-Kindergarten-EFL-2510744

Go to the next blog post related to the same resource:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2016/04/zoo-animal-theme-for-kindergarten-ell.html

Zoo animal cutouts: use them to introduce these new words in a clear way or for drilling the zoo vocabulary words. I have included word cards, that could be displayed on the wall or board next to the cutouts.  By doing this children will retain the vocabulary words and it can be a Pre-reading activity.

The cutouts can be used to describe animal  body parts . 

This is a giraffe. It´s brown and yellow. It has long legs and a long neck.

Point to the elephant´s ears. They are big.                                 

Point to the monkey´s ears. They are small.

Point to the elephant´s nose. It´s big.

Point to the lion´s nose. It´s small.

Use these words: tail, neck, long , short, big, small, short, tall, plain, spots, stripes, dots.

Cutouts Game 1: Place the animal cutouts on the board or Wall. Give a soft ball to a student, say an animal vocabulary word and have the student throw the ball to that animal and say the word.

Cutouts Game 2: Place all the zoo animals cutouts on the floor. Divide the class into teams. Give team # 1 a bean bag and directions for throwing the bean bag on an animal as you describe it.

Teacher: It has stripes. It´s black and white.

Student: Zebra (throws the bean bag to the animal)

Counting 1 to 10:  have the children look at the cards and ask questions:

Teacher: How many monkeys ?

Students: There are three.

Teacher: What color are the monkeys ?

Students: They are brown.

Zoo Book: I am in favor of teaching EFL students in similar ways as native English speakers.

Make the habit of reading a book every day in class. In this

book I have included more vocabulary. You can also read

with a different voice for each animal, such as a roaring

voice for the lion. Get their attention by pointing out the body

parts for each animal. Read the book as often as you can

and hand in the book to each group so they can look at it at

their own pace.

Cards: Animal Pairs.   Make sure you have 2 cards for each animal. Hand in a card to everyone. Have them walk around the room looking for classmates with the same animal. Then, have the students with the matching animals stand together and show their animal to the class and name it.

 Graph: Ask children to identify all the animals on the graph grid. Graph the favorite animal in the zoo. Graphs gives a time to use math concepts along with language, as you count the animals from the graph, compare or contrast them. Best of all, there´s participation even for the shy students. Plan on how to display the graph. There are many options, depending on your class size.

Pointers:  Use the pointers for reading books or for pointing to the cutouts. I made mine with fun foam zoo animals and wooden dowels.

 Zoo Action cards: Head over to this blog and get her action cards for free.By teaching actions, you will prepare your students for grammar in the elementary school years. Use the cards to play the famous Simon says .

http://mrshomeec.blogspot.com/2011/03/circus-ship.html

Masks:  Have the students mime each animal and the sound each animal makes using them. Here´s my collection.

Zoo Monkey Family for free !! Get all the members with vocabulary cards. Use them to review the family theme. 
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Zoo-Theme-Monkey-Family-1091755

Paper bag Puppets: Here are some that I made last year to sell. Write an email (ei98srl@gmail.com) and I´ll send the templates to your mail as always.

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Storytelling in the ESL class

Fostering a love for reading is an important part of kindergarten teaching. Reading books aloud to your class makes the story accessible to every level of reader and encourages well-written, fluent writing. However, not all story times are created equal. In their 2007 article Repeated Interactive Read-Alouds in Preschool and Kindergarten, published in the journal "The Reading Teacher," Doctors Lea McGee and Judith Schickedanz explained that the type of story, and how you read it, determines the level of enrichment. Several techniques will transform standard kindergarten story time into a stimulating educational experience.

Read more: Tips on Reading to a Kindergarten Class | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/info_12206386_tips-reading-kindergarten-class.html#ixzz1vkdhrpVl

Years ago I prepared this workshop for a school, I named it Storytelling. Here are the pictures:

1. Three little pigs: The series Sprinkles from richmond Publishing come with this great BIG BOOK, I love it. For this story I made a flannel board with felt and glued velcro to the cut outs. The title is a download from www.sparklebox.com and the cutouts I don´t remember right now. As I used the Cd which read the story I placed the cutouts and followed along. Then I made some stations around the class as House 1, 2, 3. I designated some students to be pig 1,2,3 and made some tags. All this I found at www.makinglearningfun.com.

Teachers should read aloud to young children. Time spent reading aloud is valuable to students. Reading aloud to children helps them develop and improve literacy skills -- reading, writing, speaking, and listening.


2. I tried different things to make each story a special experience for the students, allowing  them to live the story and to become  involved and be a part of it. For this one I made some tags using the cutouts that come with the book. I also made some medals that they won for reacting the story and took home to show their parents.The illustrations that come in the big book often help to explain the new vocabulary.



3.The other story was the Gingerbread Man. I have a blog entry here, if you want to check out more activities. I used once again the cutouts from the book and made some more, but this time I created stick puppets by placing a stick puppet wuth masking tape to each cut out. 

I also gave a gingerbread man as name tags to each student.



Among the many benefits of read aloud, Rog (2001) lists the following:

• building vocabulary
• developing understandings of story structures
• supporting developing connections between print elements
• encouraging high levels of understanding
• teaching the reading process in a meaningful context
• modeling fluency
• motivating students to read

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4. As EFL teachers we always worry about  the speaking vocabulary of the class. The stories that we use should engage students at the edge of their speaking vocabulary, usually a grade or two above their grade-level. The Big Book that comes along is based on this. The other story  was Goldilocks and the 3 bears. This time I used more stick puppets but with 3 sizes of the objects and played some games like getting into groups by objects and by size.

 5.  For the rhyme Humpty Dumpty, I introduced preliminary vocabulary, such All the king´s horses, but  I didn’t spend too much time on this, I used the pictures on the book, so they could follow. I made some finger puppets so they could react the story. I also made some puzzles that could put together. Got the printables at www.makinglearningfun.com. I also made a crown for me to wear while reading the story!!
Try  not allow too much time to lapse between days when you read, maybe after each unit plan a reading session.

6. Read aloud to students is no easy task. I use the CD most of the time because it has special effects and voices, but if you don´t Cds to go along with the book,work on reading expressively and ask for feedback or listen to yourself on tape. This other story came with this prop as a printable to make to go along with the story ,as the CD read the story the students moved the strip of paper.

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Halloween ideas for Kindergarten English Language Learners

1. Another cute idea from www.kidssoup.com, using plastic plates.It comes with a cute poem.

2. Lacing cards: an extra activity for fine motor skill, I made them out of fun foam for extra durability.

3. Door hangers: something cute and easy to make for your classroom door.

4. Roll a dice: kids love to play with dice, it´s a nice way to practice number recognition and body parts. Find it at www.makinglearningfun.com.

5. Draw the face details: www.dltk-kids.com have all the printables for this fun activity, in which the kids have to draw the face details on many Halloween characters, it´s a nice way to review face parts.

6. Books: Love making books, I try to make a new one each year so the collection can start growing. As an EFL teachers, there aren´t many resources around. I found the 5 liitle ghost book at www.kidssoup.com, you do need a suscription, but it´s worth it. 

The counting book can be found at www.prekfun.com.

7. Pointers: I made these pointers using the templates at www.dltk-kids, and glued them onto balloon sticks. They can be used as pointers in class or as flashcards.

8. Name Tags: I always make name tags for Halloween parties. Punch a hole and place a ribbon.

9. Crowns: Making crowns is fun, here´s another one that I made only using bat shapes.

10. Math: Here are some ideas for counting.

11. I love finger puppets, I made a few. I got the printable at www.kizclub.com.

The kids colored them, but I thought it would be better to paste the puppets onto fun foam, so they can last longer.

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Transportation Theme

Game: Find a partner.Have a group of students stand up in the front of the class. Give them a card in ramdom order. Tell them to find a partner and stand together to complete the picture. Have the rest of the class say if the pictures are correct and name the means of transportation.

As a group, some students can play memory pairs. Place all the cards face down on a table. A member of the group turns over any two cards, If the pictures match, the student keeps the cards. If the cards do not match, turn the cards over and another student from the group take the turn. Continue, the students with the most pairs wins.

Game : What´s in the bag ? Place the vehicles cutouts in a bag. Take a cutout out from the bag and show it to a student. Have the student name and describe the object.
T: What´s this ?
S: Helicopter.
T: What color is it ?
Ss: brown.

Repeat the procedure until all the students have participated.

Activity: Sort by transportation.Divide the board in quarters. Attach one cutout of a different transportation in each section. Ask students to identify what the cutouts are.
Shuffle the remaining cutouts and place them face down on the table. Have an individual student come up, take a cutout and place it in the corresponding section on the board. Repeat the procedure until all the cutouts have been sorted.

Activity: Sorting by land, air, sea.

I used the cutouts from the book I can 2, Richmond Publishing. 

Activity: Sorting by color. 

Place the sheets of colored paper on the floor in a line.
Have students come up, get a cutout, name it and place it on the corresponding sheet of colored paper.

Wheels on the bus Song: I found this song in the Cd that comes with the book Jellybeans 3, Richmond Publishing. I made props to go along with the song and a video with my kids using them. 

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http://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2016/03/transportation-review-unit-for-ell.html


Activity: Race cars.

I found these race cars at, once again, http://www.makinglearningfun.com/.

They are good for lining up the car and review number order.

Using the pointer.
Place the vehicles cutouts on the board (bike, car, boat, airplane, helicopter, bus). Use the car pointer to name each each cutout. Have students repeat the names.
T: car. Repeat.
Ss: car.
Then have a student come up to the board and get a cutout, say its name and place it in any place around the room and sit down. Give students commands for pointing to different cutouts.
T: Point to the black bike.

I´m starting to make more pointers for each theme.

Patterns:Make a pattern with the book´s cutouts.
Give a student a cutout (bus) and ask him/her to stand up at the front of the class. Then give another student another cutout (car) and do the same. Then ask the class what comes next, they should say (bus) and give the cutout (bus )to another student, and do the same with the car. Continue until you have used all the cars and buses.

Book: Red car,red car , What do you see ?

I got the book at http://www.childcareland.com/, one of my favorite sites. I made some adjustment to suit my class.The template is here:

http://es.scribd.com/doc/55149223/red-car-red-car-book

Tags: I made these tags for writing the children´s name. But you can make tags for writing "Superstar Student", "Great Work" and give them to the students as a motivational prize at the end of the class.

Get the template:  http://es.scribd.com/doc/55147248/Transportation-name-tags

Graphing: Lovely idea and can be done with any theme. Here´s the template for making your own. I did mine on cardboard and took it to the class. I also brought the small pieces of paper. I asked the children to draw their favorite means of transportation and then had them bring in their picture once I started calling for car, boat and so on. I put tape behind each picture to put them up. I counted with the students how many cars, boats,etc.

Here ´s the link for making the graph:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Transportation-theme-for-ELL-1241245

Driving activity: Give each student a transportation picture and have them decorate their picture. Have students make groups according to their picture: cars, tucks, buses. Place the big numbers 1 to 6 in different parts of the room.
Give students directions for driving to different numbers.
T: Cars , go to number 6.
Buses, go to number 3.
Trucks, go to number 1.
Give as many directions as necessary.

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Highway number tracks:

I found the templates at http://www.makinglearningfun.com/, but I made them out of fun foam for durability. I bought toy cars and buses.

Beanbags: You know that I always make a beanbag for my themes. This time I made an airplane. Download your template:

Toss the beanbag Game:
Hold the cutouts and have students name them all.
Place the cutouts on the floor face up. Have students in a circle around the cutouts. Throw the beanbag at the car and have the students identify it.
Give students the chance to throw the beanbag and have the class identify the object it falls on chorally.

Coloring student´s book: Sometimes just using crayons in class is boring for the kids. So, here are some ideas for completing the activities.

Just print the letter arts and crafts, grab some crayons, scissors, and glue, and you’re set for a fun-filled alphabet session. The resource is here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Letter-arts-and-crafts-collection-3378536

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