Phonics Uno

by David | Alphabet, Games, Phonics, Tools

Today, I want to share with you a set of phonics ‘uno’ cards I made a while back. Late last year, I made a deck of phonics uno cards to test out with my Starter class. Unfortunately, my Mac hard drive crashed, and I hadn’t backed up the source file....

A phonics filler game for use with an IWB

by David | Alphabet, Games, Phonics

Here’s one of my favourite IWB phonics games to play with children to fill a few moments before class, during the break, or even for the fast finishers. Its called Monster Mansion Match by ABCYa, and its a game where you have to match letter names to letter...

Case protectors for mobile devices in the classroom

by David | Gear, Technology

I have been using iPads in my young, and very young learner classroom. Here’s the case I use to keep them safe. (I’ve also seen the same case in many photos and videos of kindergarten classrooms.) I like that its sturdy and can also be used to sit the iPad...

My English Learning Passport

by David | Templates

One of the projects I’ve been working on, is an English learning passport. The idea was to use it in class as a way of reviewing vocabulary and another way to engage children with learning. I’m thinking that ultimately, I might put stickers or stamps in...

A secret to radically improving your EFL VYL English classes

by David | Tips

Here’s a short teacher tip that one of the mentor teachers at my language school once shared with me, as a secret to improving my classes. It’s so simple, and incredibly obvious, and to some extent I’d been exploiting it already, although not to its...

Sources of games ideas for kindergarten EFL/ESL classes

by David | Games, Kindergarten

I remember when I first started teaching EFL kindergarten, I had an embarrassingly small repertoire of games that I would repeat every lesson. These days I have far more games ideas, and my quest is more to refine my list of ideas into games that are the most...