Reading stories with young learners.

Reading is fun!

I choose interesting and easy reading stories for my young learners that do not let learners get bored. We have a classroom library where all books are sorted by genres and the age of my students.  They love reading and doing some fun activities on stories.

Here is a story prepared for grade 4.

Step 1: Read the story and retell it. 

Retelling helps students to memorize the main idea and improves learners speaking skills.

Step 2: 

True/ False activity.

This activity is useful for reading comprehension as checking students' understanding is 

a very important part of reading strategy.

Step 3: 

"Story Map" activity. I usually offer my students to work in groups for story mapping because of time-consuming. It also helps learners to work in a team helping each other.

Step 4: Presentation

The teams present their story map by following a given structure in the story map handout. 

Story mapping is a unique technique that provides a clear picture of the whole story by reviewing and analyzing the story.

Teaching English with Math

Numbers, Addition, plus...

I always try to create a fun learning atmosphere in the classroom where my students can feel happy while learning English. They love fun and creative activities but some activities like math doing puzzles, sums, and counting are just to exercise students’ brains. For this purpose, I created math activities and worksheets for the 1-3 grades.  One of them is the “Penguin addition task”.  Students should do this task in groups, pairs or individually. I prefer to suggest my learners work in pairs. Cut the penguin figures, put them on the backside and ask students to choose them.

Next activity and worksheets designed to write missing numbers: from 10-100. 

“Number wheeler” the game engages learners to be fast and smart. Cut and craft number wheeler to set up the game for individual players. Read instruction in the printable worksheets. 

Download pdf: https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive 

What time is it?

Telling the time activities with worksheets and crafts.

My second-grade students learn time in the third term. So, some handouts are ready to start.

First, we prepared crafted clocks and hand watches recycling material like

empty rolls of the scotch, paper, cardboard, colored ribbons. 

I believe my young learners will love them, especially if they wear these beautiful hand watches. Each learner will have them and they should tell time looking at their watch.

I also created printable worksheets to use in the classroom for teaching time.

 Time activities:

1. Match the time

2. Print, cut the watches and draw the hands, say: What time is it? 

3. Daily activities. Complete the sentences and draw the hands of the clocks.

 4. What time is it? Draw the hands of the clocks and say what do you do at a given time. 

5. Time for Rhyme! Read and learn the rhyme!

Seasons. Weather.

Games and activities.

Here are some worksheets for seasonal games and activities.

1. Do the weather puzzle! 

2. Match the seasons and the words related to them!

3. Unscramble winter words!

4. What's the weather like? Complete the clouds! 

 

Positive and negative adjectives

Negative adjectives: find the positives!

Positive adjectives: find the negatives!

Positive adjectives

These "Positive adjectives"  worksheets created to describe things or people. There are five pages of watermelon shaped words.

There are many activities that we use in our lesson using these adjectives:

Activity 1. Read and make sentences with these adjectives.

Activity 2. Put adjectives in alphabetical order.

Activity 3. Describe things or people around using these adjectives.

Activity 4. Find the synonym adjectives. Example, "smart- clever" 

You are welcome to download: cut and use them in your classroom! 

 

What animal am I?

My first, second and third grades learn domestic and wild animals in different terms. The firsties learn their names, size, and colors. The second grades learn wild animals' abilities: what can they do. The third grades learn kind of wild animals' living habitats and abilities through games, songs, puzzles, and crosswords.

Recently we practiced "Old TV puzzles" about wild animals. 

Step1. 

Print out Old TV puzzles cards and cut them.

Step2.

Put them on the contrary around.

Step 3. 

Ask students to choose the card, read the description and guess the animal. 

This game can be played in pairs or in groups.

For individual work, I prepared diced puzzles. 

My learners enjoyed with a dice game.

Here is the dice version of the game.

you can download pdf versions visiting my drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive