Great free downloadable worksheets and ideas
Check this out! Some great free downloadable worksheets and ideas to review and expand students’ existing vocabulary knowledge with ESL Topics Word Banks. Intended for Intermediate students but ideas can easily be adapted. Happy teaching!
Environmentally-themed lesson ideas
Looking for environmentally-themed lessons? This website provides lessons on sustainability, environment and green issues and ideas for paperless lessons! Happy teaching!
Who Made That?
The “who made that?” column has some lots of interesting, short articles that provide the perfect mix of high-interest readings with sophisticated sentence structure and vocabulary. They also offer opportunities for cross-curricular work, as it’s all about the history and science of e.g. the Super Soaker, energy drinks etc. Happy discovering!
Pronunciation puzzles and activities
Struggling to find effective pronunciation activities and bored with the ones you always use? Check out Mark Hancock’s Pronunciation puzzles and activities for some inspiration!
Teaching Students to Embrace Mistakes
An excellent summary of why mistakes are invaluable in teaching and learning. If you are not convinced yet… make sure you read this Edutopia post. Happy reading!
Free course on ICT in Primary Education
Are you teaching YLs? How are you integrating ICT into your classroom? This free online course for primary school teachers analyses examples from schools in different parts of the world. The materials in the course are based on studies carried out for the UNESCO Institute of IT in Education, Moscow. Happy learning!
Free online IWB training with Promethean
If you have access to an IWB in your room, check out the free resources available online for Promethean Active Inspire and the free one-on-one seminar now. Happy IWB-ing!
Literacy programme support materials
If you are having to teach your YLs from scratch with the English script then this might be worth a read. The aim of this teacher support material is to help teachers to provide purposeful and planned phonics teaching within their literacy programmes to develop children’s phonological awareness in order to enhance their literacy skills. […]
Shake up those reading circles
You might feel like you are in for a change after having done the same reading circle for ages. This blogpost gives you some ideas in how to vary the set up of reading circles with your YLs. Happy reading!
Diversity – Lesson plan for World Down Syndrome Day
The 21st of March was World Down Syndrome Day and this lesson was prepared for Speech and Language therapy students on how to deal with people with down syndrome. Even though the video is in English and Spanish but has subtitles, it is worth working with if you are interested in materials on diversity. Thanks […]