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December 5th is International Ninja Day! Who would have thought?!? Get those ninja stars & kung fu moves ready for a fun and interactive reading lesson based on the theme of International Days, which ends with your students creating their very own International Day to share with the class.
Learn more about Mexican Independence Day in this fun reading lesson that will improve your students’ abilities to read and give some great speaking practice in the context of National Holidays. So get to having fun in the classroom celebrating a National Holiday!
Ready for Halloween? Know what you’re going to wear? Here’s a fun lesson based on the context of Halloween costumes – sure to be fun for all the students as the get to develop their speaking for fluency abilities in a fun and interactive lesson!
A fun lesson centered around an engaging listening clip from a famous movie (Jerry McGuire) that leads into a super interactive speaking activity. You definitely need to use this one in the classroom!
Controlled practice activities develop accuracy. Here you will find a large range of different controlled practice activity types with helpful examples of each.
Get an overview and examples of different kinds of freer productive activities you can do to improve your students’ abilities to speak or write for fluency! Includes important details and demonstrations!
Learn about the two major kinds of more specific reading tasks to develop the abilities of your students to read for deeper comprehension and to scan for specific information.
Students share and discuss the meaning, origin, and popularity of their name.
There are 16 vowel sounds in North American English (the dialects of the USA and Canada); however, there are ONLY 5 vowel letters – a, e, i, o, and u (well, six if you count the letter of ‘y’). If you want to know how to properly teach your students how to pronounce NAE, you better read this blog.