ESL Games for Kindergarten and Elementary

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ESL Alphabet Printable Flashcards worksheets. Create the game find the partner. Cut the flashcards and give a piece to each student in random order. At your signal have the students walk over the classroom looking for their partner to complete the flashcard and stand together.

ESL Alphabet printable flashcards

alphabet

Includes: - Adjective craft stick puppets + pets,- Adjective Flashcards (big and small) - Face Cards, People Cards, Mr Big Nose Book - Card Game,scrabble letters,cutouts,worksheets,graph, flashcards As seen on my blog: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/04/adjectives-and-face-for-esl.html

use the game cards to introduce the new vocabulary, they are small enough to manage through the small screen.

A sentence association game, always a favorite.

adjectives games

When you play this kind of game in class, it will be maybe one of the very few times your students will have the opportunity to play.

A game that I adapted and named it the Shark Game. Print the sharks and cut along the lines. Put the cutouts that you want your students to identify in a recycled kleenex box along the sharks. tell the students that they win a point if they cna name the cutout and if they get teh shark comes they lose the game. The idea is to avoid to get the shark.

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beach unit games

Board Game. Playing with parents at home or with the classmate will teach cooperation as they will have to take turns with the die and wait for the other students to move their character.

Includes: Birthday reward printables, birthday book templates. The cardigan, reader, pointers printables. The party hat and numbers printables. The traceable birthday items. Cutouts for many activities. 101 birthday related flashcards and small cards. 8 commands flashcards. Birthday Games: bingo, game board, half card game, pocket charts, domino. 35 birthday related worksheets. Teaching tips for this resource.

Includes: Birthday reward printables, birthday book templates. The cardigan, reader, pointers printables. The party hat and numbers printables. The traceable birthday items. Cutouts for many activities. 101 birthday related flashcards and small cards. 8 commands flashcards. Birthday Games: bingo, game board, half card game, pocket charts, domino. 35 birthday related worksheets. Teaching tips for this resource.

Birthday unit games

Find the other half game is like a puzzle where students find the other half to complete a card. It comes with a picture and a word. It has a means on the cognitive development giving the student the ability to reason.

Play the games in groups, as students learn to interact with others and cooperate with their peers as they play. They can match the number word, the balloon number card and place a corresponding amount for each number.

Another way to use the pintables is to create a problem-solving sorting game which will encourage critical thinking. Students sort the cards based on their color.

Circus unit games

This is a hands-on activity. Cut a large opening for the “mouth” where students can insert the family cards. Students then need to say the word and "feed" the Gingerbread Person.

The cup game is perfect to encourage collaboration, to build listening and speaking skills as players describe the family members. Tape the words onto cups. Students will place the cup on top of each person.

Create a puzzle by cutting the word from each card. Great activity for the understanding of numbers in English. Students will match the number word to the quantity represented on each cookie tray. This kind of activity will develop a foundation in numeracy in the new language.

Christmas games

Clothes Unit Board Games are fun and engaging. Use them to increase students' motivation to learn. Children are more likely to participate actively with their peers. This board game requires that the players think critically and answer the questions on the card according to the color they land on.

Game boards are great for cooperative play with others, either in the classroom or at home.

Domino is easy to play because the rules are so simple. Students can play with you and other students or play at home with the parents. Pattern is present when playing Domino.

clothes unit games

Play a colors board game. Print as many as you need and set up the board game. Students should be able to understand and use the color vocabulary as they play.

Color Matching Puzzles. Print on cardstock or heavy paper. Find someone who has the other part of the puzzle.

Give each student a bingo grid card and have them color the five splotches in any way they wish. Call out the names of colors randomly, one at a time. As you call out each color, students check their bingo grids to see if they have that color. If they do, they will check corresponding square with a marker. The first student to fill their entire bingo grid shouts "Bingo!" and wins the game.

colors unit games

Calendar Bingo. Students will write the numbers 1 to 31 on the calendar and the month that you assign. Then, call out dates, and students mark them on their calendar template. Teacher: Tuesday, 12th.

Print the cards and use the ones from above to complete the questions on each card.

calendar games

Board games for logical thinking skills. Give simple instructions to go around the board. Just print the game for an easy setup. Moving up the boards depends on your student’s ability to recognize the community helpers. By playing the Board game students will be counting in English and recognizing the vocabulary from the unit.

Puzzles. Students put the pieces together to make a whole community helper with the items that relate to him or her. Concentration is the ability that they will to learn to figure this game out.

The cards can be cut in two parts and play a matching picture and word game.

community helper + town

An easy puzzle to put together for Easter.

Print these Easter and Color eggs two games and the students can play by themselves. First, this is the Easter Eggs board game.

Easter Printable games

Emotions Unit printable Game.

A fun game, just find six transparent cups. Glue the labels and start playing.

Give the students their Bingo template. Have them color all the emotions in the colors on your template or the ones that you chose to play with. Tell the students that they can only color the items in any of the colors of your cards. It would be good to display the teacher’s template for the students to double check the colors that are playing. At your signal start calling the colors.

emotions unit games

Throw a bean bag to the small card. Calling out the color before throwing the bean bag strengthens verbal skills. Students need to listen carefully to instructions about which colored cow to aim for: Throw the bean bag to the purple cow!

Game board is always fun for your students. Print as many game boards that you need for the whole class. Set the rules for the games. Here is an idea, students can say a sentence for the animal on which he/she landed in order to stay on the spot, if not, he/she has to go back. Student: horse! I can see a horse!

And with worksheets, there is always something else that we do with them, what about a board game. I grabbed a file folder. Cut all the animals into squares, glued them into a path. And that´s a worksheet that has another use after it is done. I included the farmers and the all the game board pieces.

farm animals unit games

I made a game board and I made a game board and then placed the game pieces inside the case. Anything can be stored inside.

Game Board come for entertainment and lots of laughs while exercising the mind. Send it home and it will be good for family time.

ESL Food unit recycle CD case board game.Students can choose the character and count in English, besides learning the phrases: miss 1 turn, go back, go ahead and roll again. Board games are fun. Use them as a reward system or after a test with those 5 minutes left.

food unit games

Have students create their own sentences describing the characters, focusing on proper grammar and sentence structure.

Players communicate with each other during gameplay with the printable board, practicing speaking and listening skills in a relaxed environment. I used mini erasers as markers.

Print the board game layout with spaces that players move around. There are cards with questions corresponding to the color the player xan land on. Assemble the tokens beforehand. The players take turns rolling the dice and moving around third colored token on the game board according to the number rolled. The student will answer the question on the card of the color landed in order to have another turn to play.

face and body unit games

Fruit and Vegetables Unit Games. Playing games create memories. english lessons.

Foster collaborative learning as students work effectively in groups to put together this puzzle. Use the game to help with reading fluency and word recall. Solving puzzles requires focus and persistence.

Most games are designed for minimal prep, allowing teachers to implement it quickly and with minimal setup. Writing out the names of fruits and vegetables helps students practice spelling, reinforcing correct letter sequences and word formation.

Fruit and Veggie unit games

Cognitive and social skills are at play with the board games. Just print as many as you need for 4 students. It comes with golf balls as markers, students will get to chose their favorite color to play. I added an open clip behind each one to make it stand. The board game has a light green and dark green spaces. Depending on where the student lands, he/she will take that color card and answer the question in order to move on the board.

Simply have fun with a Robot Family game board. Another idea that I saw today was to tape the game marker to a Lego block.

Family unit games

ESL Greetings memory game. I got some plastic plates and added the printables boy, girl and teachers saying hello. I made a memory game for that first class with so many minutes and we don´t know what else to do.

greetings unit games

Another file folder game with a worksheet. Just a little twist. Students get to color the leaves and place them over the ones on the file folder as they say the phrase: a red leaf.

Bingo! Give each students the template. Place all the calling cards at the board. Explain that these are the colors playing, that the trees can only be colored, brown and yellow, brown and red, brown and green or brown and orange. Place all the calling cards in a bag and start calling!

Number Matching Game. These kind of games help learning to count in English at the same time as EFL students can identify the numbers and recognize quantities.

Garden unit games

Halloween-themed school supplies games provide a dynamic way to teach vocabulary to English language learners (ELLs). Students love BINGO! Play this game by having the students color the school items in any of the four colors playing: green, orange, purple, black, and glue only 6 of them onto their board. Use your calling cards to start the game: an orange book! The student that color the book orange can cross out the block. Keep in mind that you can play this game at any other time using the same board that they have created. It is useful for those final 5 or 10 minutes to wrap up a class.

Students must solve the puzzle by identifying the correct number of cats as they match numbers on the tombstone. Encourage your students to work together, practice speaking, and reinforce language skills through social interaction.

Halloween shapes puzzle

Halloween games

There are several houses in different colors. Students will name the house they land on. Example: a blue house!

Improve the students’ creativeness and social interaction by playing board games along extra practice with the vocabulary.

Adding a game, a Bingo to review the parts of the house: chimney, roof, door and window. Students choose one house, 1,2 or 3. Display the colors that are playing the game meaning that they can only color each part in those colors. Have the calling cards available.

house unit games

Puzzles. Increase vocabulary as the students play with the easy puzzles, ask them about the shape of the puzzle. Teacher: Look! What shape is it ? Students: a circle! As students finish their puzzle they name the insect. Students: It’s a ladybug!

Place a ball of play dough next to the next to cup, behind the behind cup and in front of the in front of cup. This will enable the craft stick to stand and perform the preposition definition.

Use the jar with the all the other insect cutouts in the complete resource. Check it out: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/07/insects-cutouts-for-teaching.html

insects and bugs unit games

Here is a printable board game to use with small groups of students. There is a colored version and a black and white that the students can color as they wish. The game can help consolidate the new number words.

Print all the numbers 1 to 10 (calling cards)in each color that you would like to play with. You can choose the colors that you want to review. I recycled a gift bag and placed all the cards into the bag for calling the numbers. Give your students the numbers template. Students will color the numbers anyway they want and that will be their Bingo board.

numbers games

Print the quilt mats, it comes with the pictures only and the words only, use it either way. This is my example. I used the picture quilt and cut all the words to do the match. Students will place the preposition word on each picture and say the sentence: The dog is between the dohouse and the ball. english activity for kindergarten

Include spelling activities for vocabulary development. This kind of activities helps into learning and remembering the new words.

The pet unit board game can be adapted for the different levels of English that you have in class. Make your own rules for the game or even better have the students make new ones to make it more challenging for the more proficient students. Print the board, cut and glue to assemble one bigger game. Glue the tips of the game board markers. There are four, so this is a game for mainly 4 students. The pet shop template is for students to place the cards they get when playing.

Pets unit games

A dice and the game board pieces to start. Students will answer questions about the pictures on the cards of the color they landed on. This improves their ability to describe, name, or use vocabulary in sentences.

Students practice constructing sentences, reinforcing proper word order and grammar using playground-related vocabulary.

Print the puzzle for the students to repeatedly see and connect written playground words with visuals, strengthening their ability to recognize and read new words.

Playground unit games

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