Printable Flashcards: Animal Homes. Part 1.

The animal homes and habitats collection consists of 42 printable flashcards. I created them to use along with my animal-related reading comprehension worksheets with the aim of expanding students’ vocabulary on the topic of animals. The entire reading comprehension kit includes more than 280 colorful flashcards that help me introduce vocabulary related to animals sounds, animal actions, animal babies, animal body parts, and animal homes.

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So here are the first 10 out of 42 flashcards designed to introduce the following vocabulary: anthill, aquarium, Arctic, basket, beehive, birdhouse, burrow, cage, cave, coop, den, desert, drey, farm, fish bowl, hole, hollow tree, house, hutch, kennel, lagoon, nest, ocean, pen, pond, river, savanna, sea, shed, soil, stable, sty, web.

Printable Flashcards: Animal Body Parts. Part 1.

I have created more than 280 printable flashcards to be used along with my animal-related reading comprehension worksheets. There are 54 animal body parts flashcards among them. Whenever my elementary school students read those comprehension passages, I show them the flashcards to expand and strengthen their animal vocabulary. I have already started sharing animal sounds flashcards, animal actions flashcards as well as those featuring animals and their young ones. It’s time for animal body parts flashcards.

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The animal body flashcards are included in my reading comprehension kit and help introduce the following vocabulary: antenna, antlers, back, beak, beard, belly, claw, comb, crest, ear, fang, feather, fin, foot, fur, gill, head, hoof, hump, horn, jaw, knee, leg, mane, mouth, neck, nose, nostril, paw, pouch, scales, snout, shell, spines, sting (stinger), spots, stripes, tail, tail tuft, tentacle, toe, tongue, tooth, trunk, tusk, udder, wattle, web, whiskers, wing.

Printable Flashcards: Animal Actions. Part 1.

I have designed 56 printable animal action flashcards to expand the animal-related vocabulary of my elementary school students during English classes for which I use my reading comprehension worksheets. If you follow my blog, you might already know that over 280 colorful flashcards as well as 11 reading passages and related worksheets make up my reading comprehension kit. The 56 animal actions flashcards are among those hundreds of flashcards belonging to the kit.

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The flashcards can help English teachers introduce the following animal actions vocabulary: attack, bathe, bite, brood, carry, catch (a prey), chew, chomp, climb, dig, crawl, drink, eat, feed, flutter, fly, gallop, graze, hang, hatch, hide, lay eggs, jump, hop, leap, lick, lie, nibble, peck, play, poop, prance, prey, run, scratch, scurry, sit, slither, sleep, snarl, soar, spit, spray, stand, sting, stomp, swim, swing, waddle, wag, walk.

Printable Flashcards: Animals and Their Babies. Part 1.

In my previous blog post dedicated to a reading comprehension passage that features a cow and her calf, I mentioned once again that I created 40 printable flashcards to use for teaching kids some English names of young animals. These 40 flashcards make a part of a big set of more than 280 animal-related flashcards that accompany 11 reading comprehension passages. All these flashcards and worksheets constitute a reading comprehension kit.

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So it’s time to start sharing some of my printable flashcards with my fellow EFL and ESL teachers. I hope these colorful resources will be useful when introducing names of baby animals to elementary school students. The whole set of cards features the following animals and their young ones: bat ― pup, bear ― cub, bee ― larva, bird ― nestling, butterfly ― caterpillar, cat ― kitten, chicken ― chick, chimpanzee ― infant, cow ― calf, deer ― fawn, dog ― puppy, donkey ― foal/colt, duck ― duckling, echidna ― puggle, elephant ― calf, fox ― pup/cub/kit, frog ― tadpole, goat ― kit, goose ― gosling, gorilla ― infant/baby, hare ― leveret, hen ― chick, hippo ― calf, horse ― foal, kangaroo ― joey, lion ― cub, monkey ― infant, mouse ― pup/pinky, owl ― owlet, panda ― cub, pig ― piglet, rabbit ― kitten/kit/bunny, rat ― pup, rhino ― calf, sheep ― lamb, snake ― snakelet, swan ― cygnet, tiger ― cub, turtle ― hatchling, zebra ― colt/foal.

Printable Flashcards: Animal Sounds. Part 1.

In my recent blog posts about my reading comprehension kit dedicated to animals I mentioned that I had created more than 280 printable flashcards to help elementary school students expand their English vocabulary for the topic of animals along with developing their reading fluency. And since a few of the reading passages have vocabulary related to sounds of animals, I could not help including some relevant flashcards to the set. So I have designed 39 animal sounds flashcards and I'm starting to share some of them with my fellow ESL and EFL teachers.

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Reading Comprehension Kit. Animal Passages. Grades 1-3

At last, I have completed this massive set of printable reading comprehension worksheets and accompanying flashcards that I designed to improve reading skills of my elementary school students and help them expand their animals vocabulary. I was taught to create large sets of visually attractive printable EFL and ESL materials by the strong competition among English teachers in my city. Being a modest private English tutor, I have to compete with businesses that employ multiple EFL teachers for large groups of students. They have much bigger advertising budgets and opportunities than I do. Therefore offering the best and the brightest teaching materials is my tried and true way to attract students and their parents who eventually hire me to teach English to their kids. The new reading comprehension kit is this special kind of printables I can proudly use for my classes and make kids fall in love with learning English.

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Yes, I use reading comprehension worksheets that I can get on the Internet. They are somewhat good for children who start learning to read in English. But eventually kids get bored with them. Those worksheets seem to be too bland for today’s children who are accustomed to more vibrant content they can freely access online. So I decided to make my own experimental reading comprehension worksheets with more colors and less straightforward tasks. I used more vibrant and funny images along with some questions that require a little bit of thinking beyond what is written in the comprehension passages.

I did my best to make my reading comprehension worksheets visually appealing to kids.

Printable Polar Animals Flashcards

I use flashcards a lot for my English classes. Especially when I introduce new vocabulary to my students. I design my own printable flashcards and try to make them as bright and interesting as I can in order to grab kids’ attention and thus help them better memorize new words. I have created as many as 135 colorful flashcards featuring animals. They help me introduce more than 100 names of animals in English. These flashcards make part of my large animals kit that also includes printable worksheets and games.

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The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

As a rule, I design flashcards with a cut-out part to separate a word from the corresponding picture. This allows me to organize some simple word-to-picture matching exercises from time to time. I will be creating individual blog posts sharing my printable flashcards for each of the following animal types: African animals, Australian animals, farm animals, pets, polar animals, sea animals, birds, insects. I want to start sharing printable animal flashcards with those featuring polar animals. The flashcards are good for introducing the following vocabulary: arctic fox, orca (killer whale), narwhal, penguin, polar bear, seal, snowy owl, walrus.