5 English Spelling Techniques That Beat Writing the Word Out Ten Times
Copying a word over and over sticks far less than you'd hope. Five spelling techniques that put several parts of the brain to work, including Look-Cover-Write-Check, building words from letter tiles, and flower hangman.
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4 Techniques That Get All 40 Children Speaking English in a Single Lesson
A big class is no reason for children to sit in silence. Four techniques that give every pupil dozens of chances to speak in one lesson, from whole class chorus work to question and answer in pairs.
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Teaching English Listening in Grades 1 to 3: The Ear Always Comes Before the Book
A child who can't hear English reads by guessing and speaks by reciting. Four listening stages, from the simplest response up to real comprehension, all of them workable by a Thai teacher without a perfect accent.
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Teach the Days and Months in English with One Classroom Calendar
Monday to Sunday and January to December add up to 19 words. That looks daunting until you hand it to a morning routine that takes one minute a day. Includes the Thai colour of the day trick that makes the names stick.
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Teaching the English Seasons in a Country That Has Three of Them
The textbook teaches spring, summer, autumn and winter. Thai children live through hot, rainy and cool. Here is how to teach seasons so the mismatch becomes the lesson instead of the obstacle.
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Feelings Vocabulary: Teaching happy, sad and angry Teaches More Than English
The feelings topic gives you two things at once: English vocabulary, and the skill of naming your own emotions. How to teach it with a one minute morning check-in and a guess-the-face game.
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Teaching Opposites like big and small, hot and cold: The Pairing Trick Brains Love
Adjectives are twice as easy to remember when you teach them in opposite pairs. Here are the first twelve pairs for Grades 1 to 3, an action game to drill them, and how to move children on to real comparison sentences.
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Toy Vocabulary in English: Grade 1's Favourite Topic, Plus Sentence Frames for Sharing
Ball, doll, robot: no topic motivates young learners more. Use it to teach the my and your frames and the language of sharing toys at the same time.
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House and Room Vocabulary, Taught Through the Dream House Every Child Wants to Draw
bedroom, kitchen, bathroom: a topic every child already has direct experience of. How to teach house vocabulary alongside the There is and There are structure that comes with it naturally.
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