ESL general ideas

ESL general ideas

1. Lollipop sticks

   • Write nouns, adjectives and verbs on them
     • Each child takes a share and has to put them into the correctly labeled pot
       • They then take one from each and find it in the text of the day
     • Use verbs and nouns: Each child takes one and has to find the item or act the item or verb
     • Each child takes a set and makes a short story with them (verbally or written)
     • Match to pictures for younger children

2. Days of the week

   • Today is, yesterday was, tomorrow will be on the board with stick on days of the week
     • Get one child to fill it in every day

3. Words with dots under them to show stress

   • Put these on the wall
   • Put them on flashcards that the children carry round for sight words
     • When they finish work they can copy them out into their spelling book

4. Shapes and colours

   • Big simple pictures in bold shapes
     • Instructions: colour all squares red, colour all triangles green etc
   • Robot theme
   • Put up sentences: "I am a blue apple" etc, and a bag of apples in different colours to stick in the right places
   • Snakes with toilet rolls in different colours
     • making one like another picture?
       • "My snake is red, yellow, blue, pink, purple" do it together as a group, each child has to come to the front and name all the colours, then add one

5. Letters and writing

   • Salt/sand letter writing for tactile learning
   • Balloon letter style words, colour in the letter we are looking for
   • making words with playdough
   • Find magnetic letters hidden in the classroom, put them on the board under their written versions.
     • Use them to make words
     • Can use all letters of alphabet OR specific letters and use for anograms

6. to have

   • I have... who has? Game
   • Go fish

7. Reading Catepillar

   • Every time we read a book, put a copy of the cover and the key words we took from it. If we have enough room we can also do 'I like it because'.

8. Animals

   • "I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet"
     • lesson after animal descriptions
       • Each child gets a card that describes the animal that they were sent
         • They have to draw it and write about the animal

9. Communication words ring

   • Can I go to the toilet, I would like some water, I feel ill, I don't understand, I need help

10. Numbers

    • Number words:
      • poster with the number words with locks by each number. Keys with keyrings attached with numbers and dots.
        • Children have to try to 'open' the numbers.
          • Reward?

11. Faces/body types

    • ice cookies with instructions on people
    • collages following instructions

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