ESL Grammar Sorts Activities – High School ELL Beginner to Intermediate Practice

Need a low-prep activity to reinforce grammar concepts while keeping students engaged? These images, words, and sentences have English langauge learners sorting and recognizing language patterns, analyzing and discussing grammar, and build accuracy through hands-on practice.

You get 45 grammar concepts:

✅An & An ✅Comparatives

✅Singular or Plural ✅Superlatives

✅Verb ‘to be’ ✅Comparatives & Superlatives

✅There is & There are ✅Present Continuous

✅Have & Has ✅Going To

✅Can & Can’t ✅Was & Were

✅Simple Present Tense ✅Simple Past Tense

✅Simple Present Tense or Can

✅ Adjectives with -ed and -ing ✅ Modal Should
✅ Questions Tags ✅ Modal Used To
✅ Countable & Uncountable ✅ Modals Can & Could for Ability
✅ Want & Would Like ✅ Past Continuous
✅ Simple Pres.& Present Cont. ✅ Simple Past & Past Cont.
✅ Simple Future ✅ Present Perfect
✅ Illness & Remedy Vocabulary ✅ Present Perfect & Simple Past

✅ Past Perfect ✅ Modals Can, Could, May for Permission
✅ Reflexive Pronouns ✅ Modals Mustn’t & Have to
✅ Gradable & Ungradable Adj. ✅ 1st Conditional
✅ Intensifiers ✅ 2nd Conditional
✅ Too or So ✅ 3rd Conditional
✅ Used to & Get used to ✅ Present Perf. & Present Perf. Cont.
✅ Relative Clauses ✅ Future Perfect & Future Continuous
✅ Reported Speech ✅ Active or Passive Voice

Also included are:

➡️ speaking stems to support beginner language production

➡️ differentiation ideas to assess multiple levels in one class

NOTE: These are all included in my full year+ ESL curriculum.

Of course, it is fun and games, but students will:

✔ notice grammar patterns and language structures

✔ discuss and justifying their thinking with peers

✔ prepare for more accurate writing and speaking

✔ gain confidence before producing language independently

And what do I love the most? These games are:

✔ require little prep once printed

✔ make abstract grammar concepts more concrete

✔ work with whole groups, small groups, partners, or independent learners

✔ a simple, informal assessment that reveal mistakes quickly

✔ make student thinking visable and encourage academic discussions

45 activites for almost a quarter each! Let’s go!

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Want a sneak peak? Here are 2 FREE GRAMMAR SORTS to check out!

Need just a few activities?

Email me at paige@everythingforell.com for a custom bundle quote.

Do not buy these if you have already bought my year-and-a-half long course curriculum which has these sorts and everything else you need to teach: notes, board work, partner activities, worksheets, reading & writing lessons, writing gallery walks, listening & speaking activities, and unit assessments!

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