by David | Phonics, Tips, Video
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,...
by David | Phonics, Templates, Tips, Tools
I’m currently in the process of making new flashcards for my classes, and just discovered a useful resource of free EFL flashcards. EFL Flashcards has a few dozen lexical sets of flashcards, that cover a broad range of topics. While I want to continue to create...
by David | Learning, Phonics, Starter, Tips, Training, Video
Total Physical Response (TPR) is a method of teaching English developed by Dr James Asher, that combines language and physical movement. In short, its providing an action made with the body, that the students can use to support remembering each piece of language. For...
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....
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...
by David | Alphabet, Phonics
One of the first mistakes I made when I began teaching phonics, was teaching the wrong letter sounds. Because most of the videos on YouTube either use incorrect letter sounds or they mix up long and short sounds (thereby potentially confusing children), it was an easy...
