Top Tip: Incorporate diversity into your classroom
If you look more closely at some of the most recent student books for teaching English to very young learners, you’ll notice something: they incorporate diversity. You can do this, too. Next time you use graphics to create a worksheet, a flash card, or a...Top Tip: Foreshadowing
Today’s tip comes from one of my friends. He has an idea he calls ‘foreshadowing’. In order to support the learning, the children in his kindergarten classes (unknowingly) get a preview of what’s to come in a future theme/lesson. So, for...Top tip: Teach the same lesson
While I’m a big believer in tailoring my lesson plans to what’s most needed for where my students are currently at in terms of their understanding and ability, there is a handy shortcut a fellow teacher taught me. Where the classes you’re teaching...Top Tip: A free font for teaching kindergarten English phonics
A free font that many teachers use when designing their alphabet letter flash cards is called Comic Sans MS. It is actually quite popular in mainstream teaching, too. I use this font in some PowerPoint presentations, as well as for producing letters or words on mini...Workflow: how to make blank tracing lines for worksheets
Many times, you’ll find it useful to make blank tracing lines in a worksheet in the kindergarten style (solid upper and lower lines, and a dashed middle line). These lines are perfect, for example, where you’re providing a student with a word or a letter...