Vocabulary Knowledge
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Learning about vehicles can begin with first learning names of both common and less common vehicles. Use the Vehicles Flashcard Set of our Vocabulary Flashcards to teach your students vocabulary words for this topic.
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Phonics & Reading Skills
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Want to simultaneously provide your students with vehicle vocabulary recall practice, while developing their phonics skills? Phonics Fish is the classic card game Go Fish with a special phonics twist! The back of each card has a phonics clue that increase students' likelihood of guessing which of their fellow players has the card they need to form a set -- but only if they've paid attention during their phonics lessons. To play this game, participants take turns using the sentence pattern "Do you have a _________________?" to try to collect a full set of 3 matching cards that they can then lay down on in front of them to score points. This game offers many sets of cards for different learning topics. Phonics Fish Set H is made up of vehicle vocabulary cards.
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Another option for simultaneously developing phonics skills while improving vehicle vocabulary recall is to utilize our set of 12 vehicle Word Tiles. This activity involves matching Phonics Sound Tiles to the sides of various Word Tiles. For example, a student would complete the 'bus' Word Tile by matching a 'b' Sound Tile to the left side of the Word Tile, a 's' Sound Tile to the right side, and an 'u' Sound Tile to the bottom. Phonics Matching Tiles can be used for a variety of teaching demonstrations and various practice activities and friendly competitions. The set of 12 vehicle tiles has its own individual downloadable print file.
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Speaking Activities & Games
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The Vehicles Card Game allows participants to practice using the vocabulary words for a variety of common vehicle types, and is very suitable for English language beginners. Played in partner-pairs of two, participants take turns being either the asker and the answerer. The answerer draws a single card from the set of 18 cards (but keeps it secret), while the asker lays out an identical set of the 18 cards in front of them. The asker then needs ask a series of simple questions to deduce which of the 18 shape-image cards in front of them matches the "secret card" held by the answerer. The sentence pattern "Do you have a _________________?" is used by the asker in this game, with different vehicle words being systematically inserted into the blank. Based on the answerer's responses, the asker can flip any cards that CAN'T be a match to the "secret card" face-down, until only one vehicle card remains face up.
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While the activity and provided materials are not designed specifically for the topic of vehicles, the Shape Opinions Survey Activity contains a number of vehicles as shape-based images. Depending the needs of their students, teachers may be able to use these materials to design their own activities that will make consistent use of vehicle vocabulary words.
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This kit of role-play materials allows teachers to use printer-friendly cardstock to construct multi-layered tickets for a variety of transportation methods (include air travel, ferries, and trains) with a little simple printing, cutting, and gluing. The resulting tickets will have spaces that modular tiles representing a variety of departure and destination cities/countries (as well as time and dates) can be inserted.
Coming Soon: Available January 2025
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