Smartest Giant Jigsaw crafts
Super engaging and effective Smartest Giant Jigsaw crafts. Your ESL kids will LOVE making these fun jigsaws and learning useful animal and clothes vocabulary too!
♦ Choose from a range of templates to easily differentiate according to ability, age and vocabulary focus.
♦ A super effective way to provide repetition of useful animal and clothes vocabulary from the story. See the full list below.
♦ Follow the tips and suggestions for fun ways to incorporate full sentences and story language in an interactive and dynamic way.
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What will my ESL young learners learn?
Depending on which activity procedure you choose, your ESL young learners can focus on listening or speaking skills or both!
Apart from the vocabulary in the images, there are plenty of opportunities to help them acquire useful phrases and structures.
Don’t forget about the game and activity language they can practise too!
Clothes in the story
dress/gown, sandals, shirt, trousers/pants, belt, tie, socks, shoes, crown, scarf, vest, pants/underpants
Clothes not in the story
cap, sunglasses, coat, jacket, woolly hat, pyjamas/pajamas, shorts, T-shirt, trainers/sneakers, skirt, boots, jumper/sweater
Animals
giraffe, fox, goat, mouse, dog
Structures
‘for’ + noun phrase to express purpose
e.g. My tie is a scarf for a giraffe. My belt is a path for a dog.
Noun + as + noun to express purpose
e.g. Here is a tie as a scarf.
Have got/have to express possession
e.g. I have a hat
Game and activity language
Where’s the…? It’s here. It’s there. Is it…? Yes, it is. No, it isn’t. What is it? It’s a.. It’s…
Can you find the…? I can see a…
Can I have..? Here you are. Thank you. You’re welcome. Puzzle, paper, card, colours, crayons, pens, pencils, glue, scissors. I’m finished.
What do teachers say about the resources?
Frequently asked questions
Yes, of course! Maybe you have the time and enjoy creating things, but it has to be said that being a young learner teacher can involve a HUGE amount of extra work making materials. Give yourself a break!
All my materials have been tried and tested in the classroom. As well as having almost 20 years of teaching experience, I am also a qualified trainer for the Trinity TYLEC (Teaching Young Learners Extension Certificate), so you can rely on the quality.
Yes! They work great for mixed aged groups and different abilities because they come with different templates AND different suggestions with how to use the resource. No time wasted on adapting different worksheets!
This resource includes plenty of activity suggestions to play and make the jigsaws. It’s definitely not a done in 5 minutes activity (unless you want it to be!)
It works great as the main part of a lesson but I’d recommend looking at the supplementary resources (link included).
Add a song, tell the story (you can use the video if you don’t have the book), play a game with the vocabulary and use this resource interactively. You have all the ingredients for a lesson your esl kids will love.
You can certainly find some free worksheets out there, but it’ll be tough to find ones that exactly match the vocabulary in the story, and certainly not with the different options to cater to different abilities. I can guarantee your young learners will be much more excited to create this. Engaged and motivated children make for a happy lesson (and teacher!)
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