Holidays in Winter Word Searches for ESL with Audio

by English with Imagination

Price: 560 points or $5.6 USD

Subjects: ela,englishSecondLanguage,elaLanguage,vocabAcquisitionAndUse,eslVocab,conventionsOfStandardEnglish,elaLanguageSpelling

Grades: 2,3,4,5

Description: Your ESL students will have fun learning and reviewing vocabulary for talking about holidays in winter with these engaging word searches. They'll read, hear and spell ten target words as they work their way through each puzzle. Colorful illustrations contextualize the words. Audio supports emergent readers and models pronunciation. The following words are included: - Christmas: bells, Christmas, cookies, December, lights, present, sled, snowflake, snowman, star. - New Year’s Eve: clock, fireworks, first, January, kiss, midnight, noisemaker, star, twelve. - Valentine’s Day: book, chocolate, envelope, February, fourteenth, kiss, letter, mailbox, rose, stamps. - Lunar New Year: candle, cookie, dragon, envelope, fan, fireworks, lantern, money, orange, present. I created these word searches for my own students, who are learning English as a foreign language in elementary school. They need to learn vocabulary and spelling, but they also love to play. Word games like these allow them to do both! Supports the following standards: - Common Core Language Arts: CCRA.L.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. - WIDA: ELD-SI .K-3: Inform: Define and classify objects or concepts. - WIDA: ELD-LA .4-5 .Inform .Expressive: Construct informational texts in language arts that add precision and details to define, describe, compare, and classify topic and/or entity.