How Printable Scavenger Hunts Turn English Practice Into an Adventure Kids Beg For

We've been teaching English to kids long enough to know the truth about flashcards: they work, but only when the child is willing. The minute the child senses they're being drilled, the door slams shut.

The most powerful English-learning sessions we've ever run weren't sit-down sessions. They were scavenger hunts.

Consonant Phonics Kit: Worksheets, Flashcards, Reading Comprehension

I am delighted to present a comprehensive kit of English consonant phonics that I have created for my classes. This kit is designed to help me teach young learners to match sounds and letter combinations in English, read with fluency and accuracy as well as enrich their vocabulary.

Feelings & Emotions Posters and Flashcards

I have designed 3 printable posters and a bunch of flashcards to integrate them into my English classes dedicated to feelings, emotions, and mood. The posters and flashcards depict 48 feelings, emotions and states of mind using images of kids that look like Pixar cartoon characters. It’s probably the biggest feelings and emotions chart you can find on printables designed to help EFL and ESL students develop a richer emotional vocabulary.

My three printable posters visualize 48 feelings and emotions for young English learners.

Labor Day Worksheets and Reading Comprehension

My classroom calendar shows that the American Labor Day is on the horizon, so the first half of September would be a great time to talk about this holiday as well as learn new vocabulary related to professions and tools with my middle school and high school students. For this purpose I have designed the printable Labor Day kit for my English classes. The kit includes reading comprehension passages, worksheets, flashcards and vocabulary posters that help students learn more about Labor Day as well as memorize English words related to jobs and tools.

Printable Labor Day worksheets help students memorize vocabulary related to jobs and occupations.

Letter U Worksheets, Flash Cards, Coloring Pages

Here is another portion of printables that I designed for my classes dedicated to the English alphabet. In today’s post I’d like to share some of my worksheets, flashcards, coloring pages, and posters I use to help my young students memorize letter U. My fellow EFL and ESL teachers are welcome to use these resources for their lessons too.

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Word Families - 154 Printable Flashcards

I have designed 154 printable flashcards featuring word families. Originally I created a small bunch of such cards with most common word families to teach my little son to read in English. My son has been learning English as a foreign language since childhood so, when he was a toddler, I started to design printable reading cards incorporating lists of words with a common ending (up to 12 words on each flashcard) and up to 9 pictures representing some of the words. The rhyming words made it easier for my son to start reading in English while observing and getting used to the spelling patterns of English words. The bright pictures helped me draw his attention to the cards and let him memorize some useful words thus expanding his vocabulary.

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Preview flashcards

Later I decided to use the word family flashcards for my English classes with young students. The kids seemed to love the picture cards, and over time I made even more flashcards for my EFL teaching practice. At the moment my printable word family set counts 154 cards. There are more than 870 words illustrated with child-appealing pictures incorporated on the flashcards.

ab word family flashcard

Long E Sound Worksheets, Flashcards, Posters, Reading Comprehension

If you teach English to young learners and you are looking for printable materials to help kids learn English sounds, namely the long E sound, I’d like to suggest some of the printables that I created for my EFL classes. I have designed hundreds of printable worksheets, flashcards, charts, posters, and reading comprehension task sheets dedicated to English phonics. Below you can find those that could help you introduce the long E sound to your students.

Long E Sound Flashcards

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Phonics Game

Being an EFL teacher, I pay special attention to teaching phonics to my students. Unlike native speakers, the kids who study English as a foreign language are not fully emerged into the language so they have a hard time figuring out how to pronounce many English words correctly. And we all know how crazy the English phonetics can be. When I show my students how the letter o can make as many as 9 sounds in different words or introduce the letter combination ou in such words as soup, mouse, shoulder, couple, four, flour, journalist, carousel with 8 different pronunciations, they get a little bit puzzled. No wonder English phonics are often a major challenge for EFL and ESL students. That’s why I design all sorts of printable phonics worksheets, charts, flash cards, posters, and games to help my young students learn phonics in a fun and memorable manner.

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I have recently designed a printable board game for my English classes dedicated to phonics. The purpose of the game is to help young English learners memorize basic phonics rules, exceptions and some tricky words as well as to correctly identify sounds and tell the difference between them. I designed 15 different game boards to play with more than 550 word cards.

CVC Words Flashcards

CVC words are perfect for my elementary school students who started learning English just a few months ago. These short words are easy to memorize, so they are the instant passive vocabulary for non-native speaking kids I teach English to. That is why, when teaching basic English reading rules with CVC words, I do my best to help children memorize those words. I design my printable teaching materials accordingly: with a lot of pictures and word-to-picture matching tasks. I have recently designed a set of printable CVC words flashcards to make learning CVC words even more fun for my young students.

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The kit includes 116 flashcards, 5 charts and 15 matching worksheets

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There are 116 printable flashcards designed to visualize CVC words for elementary ESL and EFL students and thus stimulate their memory in order to expand their English vocabulary from the very outset. Each card has a picture and a word part. The word part can be cut out to be used for word-to-picture matching activities.

Printable CVC flashcards featuring short a sound words.

Letter O Worksheets, Flash Cards, Coloring Pages

Many people who visit my blog come here to find printable resources designed to help EFL and ESL teachers teach English alphabet to kids. Therefore I create blog posts that combine previously published printables dedicated to each individual letter in order to help educators better find necessary teaching materials and navigate through my blog to find even more useful resources for their classes. Today’s post offers my fellow English teachers some printable worksheets, flashcards, coloring pages, and posters designed by me to teach letter O to children in kindergarten and elementary school.

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Vowel Phonics Kit: Worksheets, Flashcards, Reading Comprehension

I have designed a new set of printable flashcards, worksheets and reading comprehension passages to teach phonics to young students learning English as a second or foreign language. Combined with recently designed phonics worksheets, sound charts, and phonics posters, this new kit allows me to develop and strengthen phonetic literacy of my students all the way from kindergarten to middle school. This particular vowel sounds kit includes 184 flashcards, 436 worksheets and 12 original reading comprehension passages with accompanying worksheets designed for kindergarten and elementary school kids. It can serve as a great tool to teach little learners to read in English and understand the English language phonics patterns.

Vowel Phonics Flashcards

The printable phonics kit focuses on English vowel sounds and contains 100 flashcards featuring short vowel sounds, 60 flashcards featuring long vowel sounds, and 24 flashcards designed to learn r-controlled vowel sounds.

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A sample of printable phonics flashcards featuring a short vowel sound (short i).

American English vs. British English Matching Cards

Thanks to Hollywood English language got pretty much Americanized. Even in the conservative United Kingdom young people use more and more American words. Non-native speakers mix American English and British English very frequently too, mostly unwittingly. However it is important for English learners to be able to tell apart American and British variations of some key words in order to use them correctly. After all, we want to sound properly and accurately to the audience we communicate with because all too often our language defines our competence and the first impression of us. Therefore I offer my young students a large set of printable cards designed to help them memorize some commonly used words that differ from each other in American and British English.

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The American English vs. British English set features 84 word pairs. The cards can be used both as visual aids to introduce the relevant vocabulary and as a set-up for word-to-picture matching activities. Such visually enhanced activities tend to be conducive to long-term memory. By using these cards, EFL and ESL teachers can raise children’s awareness of differences between American English and British English as well as expand students’ vocabulary with some useful words.

This is how my printable American English vs. British English cards look like.

Global Warming Reading Comprehension, Worksheets, Flashcards

The issue of global warming has been widely discussed at the highest governmental and scientific levels recently. The issue is indeed very serious. It threatens with a lot of negative consequences for nature and humans. We can only hope that the future generation will be more wise and inventive than us to successfully mitigate the effects of global warming. Our children’s and grandchildren’s well-being is largely dependent on how well they understand the problem and the ways to tackle it. As a teacher and a mother I simply cannot ignore the dangers of climate change caused by human-induced global warming. I ought to educate my students about the issue and the related risks they will have to face and hopefully find a solution to eliminate or reduce those risks. There are not enough teaching materials on the topic adapted for the classroom that can be found on the Internet, so I decided to create my own printable global warming kit for my English classes. The kit is based on short reading comprehension passages and also includes a few worksheets and a set of printable flashcards to be used for vocabulary introduction and discussion of the topic.

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Reading Comprehension Passages

The global warming kit is built around three reading comprehension passages. The first and the largest one introduces the global warming issue in general, and the other two briefly tell about the greenhouse effect and the problem of ocean acidification caused by the increase of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere. The texts are followed by questions and assignments.

The printable global warming kit is based around reading comprehension passages.

Vocabulary Cards: Same Word - Different Meanings

Finding something special about words is a great method to grab kids’ attention and activate their memory. For example, at the early stages of studying English, I introduce “very special” short words consisting of only three letters to my youngest students (see my three-letter word search worksheets and short words reading comprehension passages). All this hype about those words being unusual and special gets children excited about learning them and thus helps even kindergarten kids build their first English vocabulary as easy as can be.

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Another kind of special words I love to introduce to my students are those having multiple and often unexpected meanings. These words are really interesting to learn for kids. I have designed some printable vocabulary building cards featuring such words and their meanings illustrated with pictures. These are such words as arms, bark, bat, bow, button, chest, comb, crane, fan, key, letter, mouse, nail, note, nut, plant, seal, sink, table, trunk.

Clothes and Accessories Flashcards. Part 5.

This is another blog post that features printable flashcards belonging to my clothes and accessories kit.

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

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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