Playing games is a fun way to help your students develop their reading comprehension, but it’s also a great Social Emotional Learning (SEL) activity which helps students learn to take turns, co-operate, be good winners and good losers (good sports). The questions on this fairy tale game board encourage students to practice their English reading and speaking skills while learning a whole lot of extra skills as well. Do you need an easy, no-prep, yet FUN reading comprehension activity for your young students or EAL / ESL / ELL learners? This fun Goldilocks and the Three Bears Board Game only requires printing and handing out - no dice are needed, due to the built-in spinner. Don’t we all just hate trying to find enough dice for students to play games in class? Students will be answering questions about the text, acting out some of the lines, learning to take turns, and having fun! This is prefect for ESL / ELL /EAL English Language Learners as well as Early Childhood / Early Years PreK, Kindergarten, and Grade One students. Use the game as a centre, a reading comprehension activity or for listening comprehension, a fun extension for early finishers, as a way to get kids talking and working together, or as an activity to send home for families. There’s a reason why fairy-tales and folktales are perennial favorites - they are great stories that kids love to read or listen to over and over again, and they teach important morals or life lessons. Instructions: Have your students read Goldilocks and the Three Bears, or you can read the book to them. Print the gameboard in your chosen size and version. I have included: full color, low-ink color black & white. No more lost dice! How to use the spinner: You will need: A pencil A paperclip Put the point of the pencil inside the paper clip, on the centre of the spinner. Hold the pencil with one hand and flick the paperclip with a finger of the other hand. The paperclip will spin then point to a number. This is the number of spaces you move. Your students will love this game! All my resources are hands-on, open-ended, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids! As a 23-year veteran International School IB PYP teacher, former PYP Co-ordinator and School Visit Team Member, I focus on creating resources that are hands-on, open-ended, inquiry-based, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids!

Do you need an easy, no-prep, yet FUN reading comprehension activity for your young students or EAL / ESL / ELL learners? This fun Three Billy Goats Gruff Board Game only requires printing and handing out - no dice are needed due to the built-in spinner. Students will be answering questions about the text, acting out some of the lines, learning to take turns, and having fun! Playing games is a fun way to help your students develop their understanding of the text, but it’s also a great Social Emotional Learning (SEL) activity, helping students learn to take turns, co-operate, be good winners and good losers (good sports). The questions on the fairy tale game board encourage students to practice their English reading and speaking skills as well. Use the game as a centre, a reading comprehension activity or for listening comprehension, a fun extension for early finishers, as a way to get kids talking and working together, or as an activity to send home for families. There’s a reason why fairy-tales and folktales are perennial favorites - they are great stories that kids love to read or listen to over and over again. Instructions: Have your students read The Three Billy Goats Gruff, or you can read the book to them. Print the gameboard in your chosen size and version. I have included: full color, low-ink color black & white. No more lost dice! How to use the spinner: You will need: A pencil A paper clip Put the point of the pencil inside the paper clip, on the centre of the spinner. Hold the pencil with one hand and flick the paperclip with a finger of the other hand. The paperclip will spin then point to a number. This is the number of spaces you move. All my resources are hands-on, open-ended, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids! As a 23-year veteran International School IB PYP teacher, former PYP Co-ordinator and School Visit Team Member, I focus on creating resources that are hands-on, open-ended, inquiry-based, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids!

Do you need an easy, no-prep, yet FUN reading comprehension activity for your young students or EAL / ESL / ELL learners? This Three Little Pigs Board Game just requires printing and handing out - no dice are needed due to the built-in spinner. Students will be answering questions about the text, acting out some of the lines, learning to take turns, and having fun! Use the game as a centre, a reading comprehension activity, a fun extension for early finishers, as a way to get kids talking and working together, or as an activity to send home for families. Playing games is a fun way to help your students develop their understanding of the text, but it’s also a great Social Emotional Learning (SEL) activity, helping students learn to take turns, co-operate, be good winners and good losers (good sports). The questions on the game board encourage students to practice their English reading and speaking skills as well. There’s a reason why fairy-tales and folktales are perennial favorites - they are good stories with morals that help children learn important concepts for life. The Three Little Pigs teaches that effort pays off in the end (it was harder to build the brick house, but it kept the pig safe from the wolf, whereas the easier and quicker options, the straw and sticks, did not). Instructions: Have your students read The Three Little Pigs, or you can read the book to them. Print the gameboard in your chosen size and version. I have included: full colour, low-ink colour black & white. How to use the spinner: You will need: A pencil A paper clip Put the point of the pencil inside the paper clip, on the centre of the spinner. Hold the pencil with one hand and flick the paperclip with a finger of the other hand. The paperclip will spin then point to a number. This is the number of spaces you move. All my resources are hands-on, open-ended, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids! As a 23-year veteran International School IB PYP teacher, former PYP Co-ordinator and School Visit Team Member, I focus on creating resources that are hands-on, open-ended, inquiry-based, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids!

Do you want to naturally immerse your students in language and create authentic reading opportunities? Reinforce sight words, English grammar, and punctuation using these 60 Complete Sentence Classroom Labels. These classroom labels are more than just classroom decor, they are a teaching tool! I created these full-sentence labels for my beginning readers and my dual-language ESL/EAL students, so that they were immersed in written language and in English sentence structure wherever they looked. Most classroom labels only contain single-word vocabulary (e.g. “table”) - I wanted my labels to do more: to teach sight words, grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation too (e.g. “This is a table.”). Just print the PDF, cut the labels, and stick onto items around your room. These complete-sentence classroom labels can be used in different ways, including: As a back-to-school activity - have students find the items and attach the labels, using sticky-tack (you can use tape to put the labels on more permanently later). As standard classroom labels, to create a print-rich environment. As simple, professional-looking classroom decor. To teach the correct usage of this is/these are; here is/here are; this is a/this is the. To reinforce sight words: this, these, a, the, here, is, are. To reinforce beginning and end punctuation (capital/uppercase letters, and periods/full stops). As a paired game - one child holds up a label, the other child must read it and find where it belongs. As a group game - give each group a label, and see which group finds their item first. As models for students to create their own labels (“Here are my pencils.”, “This is my water bottle.” etc) - a great beginning of year authentic writing activity. As part of a ‘read the room’ reading centre or activity. I have focused mainly on larger items such as furniture, because the labels are 11 inches long (the width of a landscape page) . I wanted the students to really ‘see’ the sentences wherever they looked, so they could read them easily (I found it is better to use single words for smaller items like pencils and crayons). I hope you find these labels useful! All my resources are hands-on, open-ended, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids! ©HOTLIB, 2022 All rights reserved by author. For Single Classroom/Single Teacher Use Only. As a 23-year veteran International School IB PYP teacher, I focus on creating resources that are hands-on, open-ended, inquiry-based, easy for teachers, and engaging for kids!