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CLASSROOM LANGUAGE
Check out The Survival Guide for basic school social language http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/community_lang/eal_survival/english/index.htm a really excellent page with language for the children to click on and repeat. Requests using ‘Can I ...?’ - Can I have + classroom objects? I’m hungry. Can I have + food? I’m thirsty. Can I have + drinks? Can I go + places in school? Can I play + toys? Can I play outside? What’s the matter? I’ve got + sickness words. What have you got? Everyday things the children might have. I can + activity verbs.


SPEAKING RESOURCES
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/4.cfm?s=4&m=25&p=58,index&start=1&zs=n

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/pron.shtml
you can find a whole section on pronunciation.


SOME OF MY FAVOURITES
http://www.agendaweb.org –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ - for ideas and materials from Foundation stage through to Secondary
http://www.dltk-teach.com/ - excellent website for downloading mini-books. Book breaks is really interesting. Also has a section for children http://www.dltk-kids.com/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com - excellent website with something for everyone
http://www.first-school.ws has a Spanish version http://www.primeraescuela.com
http://www.isabelperez.com - this page is for secondary teachers but check it out for help with your own English.
http://www.isabelperez.com/tube.htm / check out this part of Isabel Perez’s page to let the children listen to the words in English. British English. The Tube idea is lovely!
http://www.janbrett.com - a beautiful website with flashcards, stories and activities
http://www.languageguide.org/english/ - great resource with all the main vocabulary for primary with pronunciation. American English
http://www.learningpage.com/ - my favourite for worksheets and for CLIL. An excellent website. Become a member for free!
http://www.maestros.sinproblemas.com
http://www.pbskids.org – one of Carmela’s favourites
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/ I love this one! Lots of things to save you time including Powerpoint presentations.
http://www.songsforteaching.com - excellent website with songs for teaching anything!
http://www.teacherfiles.com
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk – Another great one. Check out ‘Display photos’ for ideas on displaying the children’s work
http://www.underfives.co.uk/ - just about everything for the under fives
http://www.welcometoenglishandfun.com/ - Really excellent website. Check out the worksheets for using popular songs but turn the volume down. Really annoying version of ‘Can’t buy me love’ in the background
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/index.html - An award-winning school website for everything about British culture and life in a UK primary school.

FLASHCARDS
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-flashcards.htm - flashcards for primary school vocabulary – clothes, the body, jobs, school, the playground, shops and places, sea and zoo animals. Includes wordcards for those teachers working at word level.
http://www.coloring.ws - for pictures to make into flashcards
http://www.crayola.com/ - this is an excellent page for downloading flashcards and art and crafts. You need to register for the good stuff but it is free!
http://www.janbrett.com - a beautiful website with flashcards, stories and activities
http://www.kizclub.com - excellent website for flashcards and printables in colour
http://www.sparklebox.co.uk - Excellent website with flashcards and storycards. You have to pay for some but they are very cheap.


POSTERS
http://www.sbac.edu/~tpl/posters/posters.htm#pricelist - where I found the Posters for Primary. It talks about a pricelist but then I didn’t have to pay for them.
http://print-a-poster.p-rposters.com

HEALTHY EATING
http://www.dole5aday.com/ - excellent website for nutrition with downloadable songs, online recipes, etc.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-topics-food.htm

SONGS
http://www.bussongs.com/
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems.html
http://www.childrensmusic.org/
http://www.gameskidsplay.net/frame_rhyme_listing.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/2200/stories.htm – lots of new, original stories
http://www.theteachersguide.com/ChildrensSongs.htm
http://www.wendy.com/children/

GAMES
http://www.gameskidsplay.net/
http://freespace.virgin.net/ken.tew/party/list.html – traditional party games
http://www.kagi.com/vit/kids-games.html – party games


ANY RESOURCES INCLUDING BI-LINGUAL WORK
http://www.coweta.k12.ga.us/cweb/Kidspiration/KidActivities.htm - school website with excellent downloads
http://www.edhelper.com/animals.htm
http://www.enchantedlearning.com – an excellent website with many free things. A cheap membership allows you to download lots of things for your science classes.
http://www.instructorweb.com – join this website with ‘Limited membership’ (free). There are some excellent lesson plans for science including learning objectives.
http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/animals/AnimalIndexV.htm
http://www.learningpage.com – an excellent website. Become a member for free!
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk – excellent website with work on all subjects. Even has Powerpoint presentations to download.
http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/ for photos and examples of children’s work
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/
http://www.thewildones.org/animal.html - photos and information about animals
http://www.teach-nology.com – good website with lesson plans and worksheets for bilingual education



INFANT EDUCATION
http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/Classrooms/reception.htm#Top excellent resource. Check the topics marked BGFL to hear teachers and children speaking.
http://www.earlychildhood.com/
http://www.everythingpreschool.com/ - good section on arts & crafts
http://www.funwithspot.com/ Spot’s official website
http://www.kinderart.com
http://lessonplanz.com/Preschool/
http://www.norfolkesinet.org.uk/pages/viewpage.asp?uniqid=2158 – check the Planning documents for Buildings, Festivals. Minibeasts, Ourselves, Toys and Transport
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/
http://www.preschoolcoloringbook.com/
http://www.preschoolexpress.com/
http://www.preschoolprintables.com/
http://www.preschoolrainbow.org
http://www.preschoolbystormie.com/ - excellent site - good section on curriculum planning
http://www.preschooleducation.com/sstorytime.shtml - Great songs for classroom routines
http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/other.asp
http://www.swgfl.org.uk/earlyyears/topics.htm - lesson plans organised under ‘Áreas’ or topics
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/early_childhood/
http://www.underfives.co.uk/

PRIMARY
http://www.123child.com/
http://abcteach.com/
http://akidsheart.com/
http://www.americanteachers.com/ - great links
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/ - has excellent links
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-topics.htm - photocopiables on topics
http://www.edhelper.com/
http://www.kreativerunterricht.de/html/english_worksheets_lessons.html a German website with nice printables in English.
http://lessonplanz.com/Grades_K-2/
http://www.members.tripod.com/~ESL4Kids/
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/ - links to many teachers’ pages
http://www.teacherfiles.com/index.html
http://www.teachingheart.net/
http://www.teachit.co.uk/
http://www.teacherplanet.com/calendar/calendar.php?op=cal&month=2&year=2004
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/index.html


STORIES
http://www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/audiostories/index.html - audio stories in American English
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories.htm - same website as above but the story section
http://www.dl.ulis.ac.jp/oldtales/
http://www.eric-carle.com/catexchange.html - ideas to use with Eric Carle stories
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/carle.htm - more ideas for Carle books
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html – storybooks on-line
http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/bigbooks/index.htm Bigbooks to download
http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/preview.html - easy printable books with versions in Spanish. Includes lesson plans.
http://www.storyarts.org - an excellent website with great ideas and links to other storytelling webpages
http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/sfwhomepage.htm
http://www.storyplace.org or http://www.storyplace.org/eel/eel.asp - download stories and audio version
http://www.tellitagan.com/ - download stories and audio version
Check these pages out:
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/britlit/lrrh/lrrh.shtml#activities - everything for Little Red Riding Hood. This is the first in a series of units of work for primary teachers.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-red-riding-hood.htm - listen and follow LRRH on this page
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-topics-goldilocks.htm - similar materials for Goldilocks
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/print/printarchive.html
on the same website:


ART
http://www.auntannie.com/
http://www.billybear4kids.com/
http://www.dltk-kids.com/
http://members.aol.com/lewisart44/2nd.html
http://www.thepaintedhorse.co.uk/rousseau_art.htm
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/Files/Rousseau.htm
http://www.studyplans.com/art.htm
http://www.teachit.co.uk/
http://www.teachnet.com/

BRITISH SCHOOL WEBSITES
http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/index.html - An award-winning school website for everything about British culture and life in a UK primary school.




Other things
http://www.ld.org/LDInfoZone/InfoZone_FactSheetIndex.cfm - guides for learning difficulties
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/methodology/clil.shtml - an article about Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
http://www.puzzlemaker.com – create your own puzzles for the classroom
http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx - an easy way to make tests
http://www.funbrain.com – maths games
http://www.theholidayspot.com/


For your English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
http://www.robertporter.freeserve.co.uk/ - an excellent website with lots of links
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/
http://www.isabelperez.com
http://www.wikipedia.org – online encyclopedia
http://the_english_dept.tripod.com/teachers.html
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/songlyrics_frame.html
http://www.english-to-go.com/