Documentation:ESLforPrimaryTeachers
Resources for Primary English Teachers
Resource created for TRU World's Beijing Teacher Education Program - July 2015
Integrated / All Skills
- ISL Collective: ESL Worksheets
Reading & Writing
Alphabet & Animals: http://www.bemboszoo.com/
Scholastic: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/index.htm
Mad Libs: http://www.madlibs.com/
Kid's Click: http://www.kidsclick.org/
Picture Dictionary: http://www.pdictionary.com/
Poetry
Giggle Poetry: http://www.gigglepoetry.com/
Poem Hunter: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-months/ (from: http://www.poemhunter.com/)
Fun Brain: http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html (see examples of comics to use for creative writing).
Journal Writing: See Diary of a Wimpy Kid at http://www.funbrain.com/journal/Journal.html?ThisJournalDay=1&ThisPage=1
Read Write Think: http://www.readwritethink.org/
Guide to Grammar and Writing: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/
Spelling City: http://www.spellingcity.com
Slideshows: http://photopeach.com/
Listening & Speaking
Listening & Speaking: http://www.rong-chang.com/listen.htm
ESL Lab: http://www.esl-lab.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/list/esllab/
Digital Dialects: http://www.digitaldialects.com/
About ESL: http://esl.about.com/od/englishlistening/
Many Things: http://www.manythings.org/
Songs
Freddie's Ville: http://www.freddiesville.com/songs/
Many Things: http://www.manythings.org/songs/
ESL Galaxy: http://www.esl-galaxy.com/music.htm
Busy Teacher: http://busyteacher.org/classroom_activities-listening/songs_and_lyrics/
English 4 Kids: http://www.english-4kids.com/lessons.html
English Learning: http://www.englishelearning.com/en/index.html
Train Your Accent: Accent reduction exercises. http://www.trainyouraccent.com/
Games
Videos
Teacher Tube: http://www.teachertube.com/videos/
Thematic Lessons
Numbers
Canada
Grammar Lessons
Figures of Speech
- The art of the metaphor Animated video explanation by Jane Hirshfield
- Similes and Metaphors: Cartoon video by The Bazillions
Assessment
Classroom Management
Online Stopwatch: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/
Instructional Pedagogy
Learning Outcomes
Theories of Teaching and Learning
Total Physical Response (TPR)
- TPR: Article from BBC's Teaching English website.
- TPR Video: Video demonstration of TPR
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
- The Advantages of Communicative Language Teaching: Article on CLT
- CLT Video: Five Communicative Language Teaching Methods.
Bloom's Taxonomy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_Taxonomy
- http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching-resources/effective-practice/revised-blooms-taxonomy/
- http://ww2.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm
- http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/bloomtax.htm
- BLOOM’S TAXONOMY and Costa’s Levels of Questioning
- Bloom's Taxonomy: Video from LSU Center for Academic Success
- Bloom's Taxonomy: Finding Nemo
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- Blooms Taxonomy According to Seinfeld
Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
- http://www.multipleintelligences.org/
- http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_62026ee70100gu20.html
- http://esl.about.com/od/teachingenglish/a/l_multiple.htm
- http://msetramapo.org/edtc631/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/GardnerLectureNotes.pdf
- http://www.education.com/reference/article/Gardners-multiple-intelligences/
Learning Styles
Assessment
- http://longmanhomeusa.com/blog/tag/summative-assessments/
- http://www.docin.com/p-88917378.html
- http://profeherrera.com/formative/strategies.html
