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Jobs and Occupations Dominoes and Riddles Activity – for ESL, Kindergarten and Primary Students Free Version
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This is a whole class activity that can be done in groups or pairs. I love doing this as its a real chance for students to engage with their work and for the teacher to target help where it is needed. A self directed learning win!!
- This is a whole class activity that can be done in groups or pairs.
- Students are given a board and the fruit/description and have to match the description to the fruit and glue it to the board
- They go horizontal across the top and the bottom and vertically along the sides.
- When you ( or the students) cut out the dominoes make sure there is a picture AND a description on the domino ( dominoes have two sides)
- Make sure the students know how to glue them as sometimes they will stick them all at the top.
- Once they have finished, they can complete the centre part of the board and describe the jobs they can see and the job they would like to do. ( everyone says YouTuber!)
- I will add a started version at the bottom to give a rubric of sorts. ( the board should be printed on A3 and the dominoes on A4. )
I love doing this activity, it can be totally self directed by the students and they really practice reading and comprehension skills from this. It is a whole class activity that can be done in groups, pairs or individual. I much prefer giving it as an individual task so students have their own work to present and take home.

I have a video guide for you, which as this can be a little confusing i suggest you at least skip through it, but i will put the main details below as well.

How to use Jobs / Occupations Dominoes

we made a YouTube video to check out to help you :)

http://youtu.be/4eRxR1Mc2YU
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Fruit Dominoes and Riddles Activity – for ESL, Kindergarten and Primary Students Free Version
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- This is a whole class activity that can be done in groups or pairs.
- Students are given a board and the fruit/description and have to match the description to the fruit and glue it to the board
- They go horizontal across the top and the bottom and vertically along the sides.
- When you ( or the students) cut out the dominoes make sure there is a picture AND a description on the domino ( dominoes have two sides)
- Make sure the students know how to glue them as sometimes they will stick them all at the top.
- Once they have finished, they can complete the centre part of the board and describe their favourite fruit
- I will add a started version at the bottom to give a rubric of sorts. ( the board should be printed on A3 and the dominoes on A4. )
I love doing this activity, it can be totally self directed by the students and they really practice reading and comprehension skills from this. It is a whole class activity that can be done in groups, pairs or individual. I much prefer giving it as an individual task so students have their own work to present and take home.

I have a video guide for you, which as this can be a little confusing i suggest you at least skip through it, but i will put the main details below as well.

How to use Fruit Dominoes

we made a YouTube video to check out to help you :)

http://youtu.be/4eRxR1Mc2YU
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Action Verbs ”Can you Uno” – Classroom and Card Game for ESL, Kindergarten and Primary Classrooms – Free Version
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Most of resources can be premium downloaded below, they are all editable so you can adapt them for your, classes, students and schools. It also helps me with the costs of running the website!

This is a great little game for ESL, Kindergarten and Primary students. It follows a simplified version of the popular card game UNO, and so students are likely to be familiar with the rules and game-play. I will put the rules below just in case as well.

This is the action verb version of the game, and there are 32 different words and pictures. These can be used as simple flashcards, but i have also put a simple sentence on the front as well.

I have also included a design for the back if you want them to look a little more professional.

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Blockbusters Style game – for ESL, Kindergarten and Primary Classrooms – Fully Editable
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The classic game from the UK, pick a letter and answer the question, the answer will start with the letter you chose.

The players have to answer the questions and work their way either vertically or horizontally across the board. To join the top and bottom or left and right to their colour.

There are 3 games here easy to more difficult, but all editable ( just like i did) so you an make your own. they are really a hit in classes! both mainstream, supported and ESL classrooms.

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Ladybug CVC, Short Vowel and Phonics 5 Game Bundle – Free Version
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This is the non editable version soif you need to change the words to suit your lessons, classrooms and students consider the fully editable version, it goes to help support the website as well.

Not every lesson needs a teacher at the front all the time. If you want to try a little self directed learning then this is a simple but fun and colourful set of board games that helps students sound out and blend CVC and onset and rhyme words and sounds. Easy to print and fully editable so you can change it anyway you like. Just credit and link me if you link it in your website and lead people here :) This game as all the short vowel CVC words in it. SO its great for consolidation and pair work as well.

Can be used as station learning or even whole class activities, and i will be uploading more versions to help with a differentiated learning environment as well.

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Free Version – 30 + Short A, CVC and Phonics Worksheets
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Over 30 worksheets that focus on the Short ‘a’ sound and CVC ( mostly) words that include it, many different styles including cut and paste, draw, match, find, match and writing exercise. All designed to help English learners with segmenting and learning these simple English words.This is the fully editable version in case you need to change it for your students. I have 2 versions of the same worksheet, one with and one with out a background so you can choose which you like. This is the non editable version of the worksheets if you need to edit it please consider buying the editable version as it really helps maintain the website as well :)

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Free Version – 25 + Short Vowel E, Phonics and CVC Worksheets
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Over 20 worksheets that focus on the Short ‘e’ sound and CVC ( mostly) words that include it, many different styles including cut and paste, draw, match, find, match and writing exercise. All designed to help English learners with segmenting and learning these simple English words.This is the non editable version if you need to change it to suit your students, class or school consider the paid editable version which helps maintain the website as well.

I have 2 versions of the same worksheet, one with and one with out a background so you can choose which you like.

Let me know what you think and if it was useful.

Helps with common core reading standards and with phonic sounds learning for all ages but is aimed at younger learners for the most part.

Can be be used in native and ESL classrooms.

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Free Version – 25+ Short Vowel I, Phonics and CVC Worksheets
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Over 20 worksheets that focus on the Short ‘i’ sound and CVC ( mostly) words that include it, many different styles including cut and paste, draw, match, find, match and writing exercise. All designed to help English learners with segmenting and learning these simple English words.This is the non editable version so if you need change it to suit your students, class or school please consider the editable version which helps the website as well, its only a dollar :P

I have 2 versions of the same worksheet, one with and one with out a background so you can choose which you like.

Let me know what you think and if it was useful.

Helps with common core reading standards and with phonic sounds learning for all ages but is aimed at younger learners for the most part.

Can be be used in native and ESL classrooms.

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Free Version – 25 + Short Vowel U, Phonics and CVC Worksheets
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Over 20 worksheets that focus on the Short ‘U’ sound and CVC ( mostly) words that include it, many different styles including cut and paste, draw, match, find, match and writing exercise. All designed to help English learners with segmenting and learning these simple English words.This is the non editable version so if you need to change it to suit your students, class or school you can check out the paid version which helps support the website.

I have 2 versions of the same worksheet, one with and one with out a background so you can choose which you like.

Let me know what you think and if it was useful.

Helps with common core reading standards and with phonic sounds learning for all ages but is aimed at younger learners for the most part.

Can be be used in native and ESL classrooms.

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Free Version – 25+ Short Vowel O, Phonics and CVC Worksheets
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Over 20 worksheets that focus on the Short ‘o’ sound and CVC ( mostly) words that include it, many different styles including cut and paste, draw, match, find, match and writing exercise. All designed to help English learners with segmenting and learning these simple English words.This is the free not editable version so you if you need to change it to suit your students, class or school please consider the editable version here on the store as well. It support the website!

I have 2 versions of the same worksheet, one with and one with out a background so you can choose which you like.

Let me know what you think and if it was useful.

Helps with common core reading standards and with phonic sounds learning for all ages but is aimed at younger learners for the most part.

Can be be used in native and ESL classrooms.

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Free Version – Four in a Row / Connect Four 6 Game Bundle – Phonics, ABC, CVC and more
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These are the free versions, if you need editable ones then please consider supporting the website. They are here in the store for the price of a coffee!

I have made six of these four in a row games. Each PowerPoint includes the template for the game, the counters and some teachers notes.

They are a real win in classrooms and I love using them with my students! Great for student centred learning, and as they are different levels, great for differentiation in the classroom as well.

The games cover the following phonics

single sounds ( including some outside of the 26 sounds of the alphabet)

Onset and rime ( with different gameplay)

CVC words

SH, WH, TH and CH words which are often CCVC or CVCC.

Blends

Magic E words with the CVC word highlighted as well.

This will also be part of a reading activity pack i am putting together, so if it is useful please look out for this as well!

The games and playing styles are similar but not identical. I have used these in class and they are a great way to demonstrate group work and learning stations approach.

You will needs some dice, or a way for them to roll up to 6 if you play this way otherwise everything you need is there.

Printing it on A3 would be better for them to put on their desks.

All six games included and if any questions please ask!

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Free Version – 4 Syllable Worksheets and Answer Keys – Differentiated learning versions
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This is the free version if you need or want to edit them please consider the editable ones in the store as well. It all goes to help support the website :)

I love teaching these in my classrooms, it really adds understanding and comprehension to even beginning and young learners of English. The ability to cut and put a word together is a really important skills for English learners and i hope these help you achieve this.

I have made a video below that introduces the worksheets to save you time before you download.

I teach it initially by using the clap method, where students clap out the chunks of the word, and also introduce the open mouth method (where your month opens for each syllable.

Once they have a good grasp of that i also introduce how we make a syllable, the vowel sounds of the word for the basis, and ask them to try to find the syllables in words. This requires students knowing what vowel sounds are first, but i have resources on this as well. It is not always the easiest way to teach it which is why i leave it till they have fully understood the idea of what a syllable is. I often find that they will count the vowels, which is definite progress but doesn’t always work ( it doe sometimes which can make it even more confusing for the students) I have tried to include words that have vowel digraphs in them in these worksheets so that you have words to explain how this method works.

I have also tried to include words that incorporate some of the other skills i have written about recently as well, such as diphthongs and the letter Y sounds.

These four worksheets are differentiated for different level of learners. so if you have mixed ability classrooms then these should be of use.

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