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.

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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.

There are 5 reading comprehension passages in the numbers and counting kit. This one is about a playful puppy.

Matching Words to Numbers Flashcards

English numbers and counting are some of the earliest topics introduced to kids by ESL teachers.

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I have created a set of printable flashcards for fellow English teachers to use when teaching numbers. These flashcards will help make English classes more fun for kids and gamify a little bit their learning experience. Cards like these create a challenge. And a challenge is a well-known catalyst for memorizing words.

Each flashcard consists of two detachable parts. The upper part has a number in digits, and the lower part has the same number in words. Children are supposed to match the two parts and connect them into a single card.

There are flashcards with numbers 1 - 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100.

Cute Frog Song for Children (Counting from 1 to 10)

I strongly believe that one of the most important missions of a teacher is to evoke children's love for learning. That's why educator's essential task is to make his/her lessons as less boring as possible. It's especially true when you work with little kids like I do. So my strategy is to use funny songs and characters during my ESL lessons. And my now song about a cute frog who can count can be another tool to turn learning English into an exiting process for kids.

Watch the Frog Song video on Youtube

Fruits and Berries Worksheets

Following my previous post dedicated to my Fruits and Berries Song I'm happy to offer you another series of worksheets for children learning English as their second language. You can use these printable assignments as complementary teaching materials to be used with the song in order to practice and memorize the topic vocabulary.

Watch the Fruits and Berries Song video on Youtube

Handwriting Worksheets

Development of children's fine motor skills is one of the main goals to be achieved by preschool and kindergarten teachers. That's why I've made some printable assignments for children to practice their handwriting skills as well as to memorize spelling of English words for fruits, berries and some other vocabulary based on the song. There are three worksheets containing such words as tree, leaf, bush, branch, apple, pear, plum, apricot, peach, melon, cherry, strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, sun, summer, garden, fruit, basket, boy, girl.

Fruits and berries handwriting worksheet

Fruits and Berries Song for Kids (+ Counting to 10)

Summer is a wonderful season of harvesting fruits, berries and vegetables. Lots of people around the world celebrate the harvest and the end of the field work season in late summer and in the beginning of autumn. It's an important event and a great topic for English lessons with kids. After all, the majority of children adore fruits and berries, so learning their names in English could be really exciting for them. That's why I decided to create a “Fruit and Berries Counting Song”. Singing this song, kids can fancy themselves gathering fruits and berries in a garden. And this is kind of a song with the added value as it teaches not only the fruits and berries vocabulary but also counting to ten. And as usual I asked my husband to create an animated cartoon for this song for me to make learning fruits and berries more engaging. This is the third song where you can here the voice of my 3-years old son who also learns English using my teaching materials. So here is the resulting video:

Watch the Fruits and Berries Song video on Youtube