A tip for teachers that struggle with TPR

A while back I wrote about Total Physical Response (TPR), and its importance in the very young learner classroom. Some teachers are great at creating TPR actions for vocabulary, others really struggle. Here’s a tip I learned from Vanessa Reilly, author of Very...

Some great phonics videos and a pro-tip

Here’s the tip: kids love watching kids. I try to incorporate this idea, where appropriate, into my classes. In this sense, I think a video like the one above would work very well for break times. Its fun, it has an adult and a child, and most importantly,...

How to make a blindfold

Here’s a couple of quick ideas for making a blindfold (where you don’t have one), that you might need for an activity in your VYL class. One potential source of blindfolds is the eye masks they (still?) provide to you on airplanes to help you get some...