Are you looking for fun and engaging reading comprehension worksheets for ESL and EFL learners? If so, you’ll love this free printable reading comprehension activity featuring a charming story about Freddie, a mischievous seagull who discovers a better way to win people’s hearts.
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Monday, March 24, 2025
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Educational African Animal Posters for English Teaching
As English teachers, we’re always looking for engaging ways to make language learning fun and memorable for our students. That’s why I’m excited to introduce my latest printable resource — a set of seven infographic posters featuring African animals!
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Simple Reading Comprehension About Cow (Free PDF)
Teaching young learners to read in English can be both fun and effective when using engaging, simple texts with interactive activities. To support fellow ESL and EFL teachers, I’ve created a comprehensive reading comprehension set built around a simple story about a cow, along with a variety of worksheets designed to improve vocabulary, reading fluency, and comprehension skills.
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Simple Reading Comprehension About Bird (Free PDF)
Teaching English to young learners can be both rewarding and challenging. One of the keys to success is providing engaging, level-appropriate materials that not only help children learn to read in English but also make the process enjoyable. Today, I’m excited to share a free bird-themed reading comprehension set that I’ve created specifically for ESL and EFL students. This set is designed for beginners (A1-A2 language proficiency) and is perfect for introducing children to basic vocabulary and sentence structures in a fun and interactive way.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Simple Future Tense Reading Comprehension and Worksheets
In this blog post, I'm excited to share the final part of my reading comprehension project—this time focusing on the simple future tense! This project was designed to help young English learners better understand basic verb tenses through engaging reading passages and worksheets. With these printable resources, learning grammar becomes not only effective but also fun!
Friday, July 12, 2024
Reading Comprehension about Kindness and Friendship
I am excited to present another enriching reading comprehension project for young English learners: a delightful story about kindness and friendship, featuring an adorable hedgehog named Oliver. This engaging project is designed to help children improve their reading skills while exploring important themes such as love, acceptance, and the joy of connecting with others. In the heart of the forest, Oliver the hedgehog embarks on a heartwarming journey to share hugs with his friends, teaching valuable lessons along the way. This project includes multi-level reading texts, fun activities, and creative worksheets to make learning enjoyable and effective.
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"The Hedgehog's Hug" story - reading comprehension text about kindness and friendship - Level 1. |
Monday, June 17, 2024
Present Continuous Tense Reading Comprehension
I'm excited to continue sharing with you my reading comprehension project, designed to make learning English grammar both fun and engaging for our young students. As you may already know, this project features the heartwarming stories of Dr. Ginger Williams, a beloved vet in the cozy Canadian village of Maplewood.
Monday, January 15, 2024
Present Perfect Tense Reading Comprehension
I'm thrilled to share more goodies from my English teaching arsenal. If you've been following along, you know I've been crafting a series of reading comprehension materials designed to make English verb tenses not just understandable but downright enjoyable for kids. Today, let's dive into the latest addition to the collection – the present perfect tense.
Friday, September 15, 2023
Simple Past Tense Reading Comprehension
Hi, fellow teachers! I'm back with more exciting stuff for English classes. I've been working on a set of reading comprehension texts and worksheets to keep my grammar lessons more engaging and enjoyable, and today, I’d like to show you my simple past tense reading comprehension materials.
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Simple Present Tense Reading Comprehension for Young Learners
I'm excited to share with you a set of reading comprehension texts and worksheets that I designed to make English grammar classes more enjoyable for my young students. As a language teacher, I know how learning grammar can be a bit boring for kids, so I created this series of printable resources to keep them engaged and motivated.
Friday, July 14, 2023
ABC Rhymes for Each Letter - Printable Posters
Teaching English to young learners can be a joyful and rewarding experience, and one of the keys to successful language acquisition is creating a stimulating and engaging learning environment. In this blog post, I’d like to introduce my new ABC posters, featuring alphabet rhymes and cartoon illustrations of animals. These printable posters provide a fantastic resource for teachers, offering a delightful way to reinforce alphabet recognition, phonics skills, and vocabulary through engaging ABC rhymes.
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Printable Animal Alphabet
Here is another printable English ABC that I have recently designed to decorate my classroom. I really love this one as it incorporates beautiful pictures of some adorable animals that look like watercolor artworks. I’m sure my elementary students will enjoy seeing the alphabet featuring their favorite creatures and thus they will better memorize letters and improve their letter recognition skills.
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Animals Vocabulary Posters
The eight posters featuring animals belong to my collection of printable posters for 20 topics. The posters are good for displaying in the classroom when learning names of animals in English. There will be World Animal Day on October 4, so it would be a great idea to put these posters on the classroom walls to help EFL/ESL students refresh the animals vocabulary.
Monday, September 12, 2022
Reading for Kindergarten and Elementary Students (Free PDF)
Here is one of my reading comprehension sets for kindergarten and elementary school students that I’d like to share with my fellow EFL and ESL teachers. This is a short and easy-to-read story about an ant who loves apples and friendly bats living in an apple tree. This reading comprehension passage goes with a few worksheets including those that I use to help kids learn demonstrative pronouns this / that, these / those.
Friday, August 20, 2021
ABC Train - Classroom Decoration
At the beginning of the school year EFL teachers like me will be inviting new students to their classrooms for the first time. Many of those kids have never learned a foreign language before. For some of them learning English will be a big challenge. That’s why I believe it is an important teacher’s mission to reassure young learners and make studying English a fun, interesting and exciting experience. I do my best to impress students even before we start our first English lesson. My arsenal of printable classroom decoration items for kindergarten and elementary school helps me grab children’s attention and get them excited about learning English with me.
Monday, December 7, 2020
Reading Comprehension to Learn Numbers and Counting
I’d like to share some of my printable reading comprehension worksheets that I use to teach English numbers to my young students. I try to add more fun to my English classes in elementary school and that’s why I design visually appealing reading comprehension kits that include worksheets and flashcards. My previous blog post dedicated to reading comprehension passages about animals proved to be very popular with my fellow EFL and ESL teachers, so I decided to share some more of such printable resources, this time designed to teach cardinal & ordinal numbers and counting.
The numbers & counting reading comprehension kit includes printable worksheets built around 5 short reading comprehension passages and flashcards featuring numbers and their names in English. The flashcards have a cut-out part that can be used for number-to-word matching activities. Below you can find some of the printables belonging to this kit.
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There are 5 reading comprehension passages in the numbers and counting kit. This one is about a playful puppy. |
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Printable Flashcards: Animal Actions. Part 2.
Here is another bunch of printable flashcards that I have designed to teach animal action verbs to my young students. There is a set of 56 animal actions flashcards that belong to the big animal-related reading comprehension kit. This kit has more than 280 flashcards besides reading comprehension passages and worksheets.
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Monday, December 2, 2019
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.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
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.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
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.
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