Hello, my dear educators! Our guest writer for this month is Irina Skibenko, an experienced ESL teacher and book author for children at Smart Story Club. This short article will share some of her insights about analytical skills when it comes to writing titles in her program Young Author Experience, which will also start on …
Hello, my dear colleagues! Welcome to another post with teaching tips in the form of a picture! These tips are also posted both on my Facebook page and Edmodo! This post will share some proven strategies, tips, and tools for teaching students with dyslexia. I believe we are all visual learners in a way, and it takes …
Hi, my dear colleagues! In my mind, in Methodologyland, there is a constant shortage of interactive storytelling activities, especially ones that involve speaking. It’s even more daunting if you are teaching very young learners who cannot read or haven’t even been introduced to sight words, so I usually use a story cube with VYl! This …
Hello, my dear educators!This short post will reflect a recent lesson with Shavy’s English Hut as the guest lecturer. I will also share my newest ESL materials for literature analysis, including activities for the famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen – The Steadfast Tin Soldier! Before the lesson, the students had a task to …
Hello, my dear colleagues! This post is a short reflection that will share a simple storytelling lesson plan and show some activities for Leap by Campbell Manning, Illustrated by Nadia Ronquillo. This session was done online, but it can be conducted face-to-face without any changes. It is made for young learners (mixed group, the 1st …
Hello, my dear colleagues! This post is meant to serve as a quick activity playlist where you can reuse songs to do oral storytelling without too much prep. I will also share some possible activities to transform a song or any piece of music into one of the best stories your class will ever hear. …
Hi, my dear colleagues! This post will be a reflection with a commentary about an excellent presentation from TESOL Spain 2021 titled 21st Century Skills and (Oral) Storytelling: Get your Students Communicating with various speaking activities done by Rebecca Lemaire. The speaker did not put the word ‘oral’ in the title, but I had to …
Hello, my dear colleagues!In December 2020 I met an amazing teacher from India, Shavy, and she invited me to teach a lesson in her school. This post is going to share all the tasks (full lesson plan) for a storytelling lesson with a ‘Christmas around the world’ theme for young learners on a book titled …
Hello, my dear colleagues, and welcome to this article related to reading activities for young learners! This semi-academic essay will have a difficult task to discuss and disseminate literacy development in young learners. Therefore, in this article, I will discuss various approaches and share many activities and my teaching philosophy regarding literacy instruction. I will …
Hello, my dear colleagues! Storytelling, ICT and digital tools, preschool in the cloud™, young learners, and professional development are some of my favorite education words. So many people ask me about the professional development trainings I conduct. They ask how did I start, how they can begin their teaching training journey, and more. It takes …