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Young learners: Teaching children

Lesson plans, tips and suggestions for teaching children.

A section wholly devoted to teaching English to preschool and primary school aged children. These pages are packed with ideas, games, lesson plans and other downloadable materials written by our experts with young learners in mind. All four skills are covered and there are informative articles on young learner development to provide further reading. Please write to the web editor if there is anything you would like to see included in this section.

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Teaching children: Classroom management

This section contains everything you need to know about setting up your classroom, managing your class, and getting through the first day.
Teaching children: Children's development

This section looks at how children learn at different stages of development and how activities in the classroom need to address their cognitive, motor, language and social development.
Teaching children: Reading and writing

This section contains articles, activities and downloadable resources to help you to teach reading and writing.
Teaching children: Speaking and listening

This section contains articles and downloadable resources to help you teach speaking and listening.
Teaching children: Topic bank

A bank of downloadable worksheets and practical suggestions for teaching English to Young Learners through topics.
Teaching children: Cambridge YLE games

A section featuring downloadable games for young learners based on the Cambridge Young Learner Exams series. The games have been written by Frances Bates-Treloar.
Teaching children: Arts and crafts

A brand new section, containing arts and crafts ideas to use with young learners. This section is currently under development.
Teaching children: Archive materials

A selection of worksheets and lesson plans from Macmillan resources.
A selection of stories and poems for children

This section features original stories and poems from the Selections story anthology series for children aged 5-12. We will be publishing 18 stories and poems from the series with new activities and worksheets written by Adrian Tennant.

Onestop Phonics

The Onestopenglish Phonics series for young learners, by Rachel Finnie, will provide teachers with comprehensive support for their phonics teaching, including tips for structuring phonics lessons, as well as teacher's notes, worksheets, audio and flashcards to use in class.