Tools for Learning to Read and Write
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ArticleOnestop Phonics - Alphabet
A comprehensive introduction to the Onestop Phonics series for young learners by Rachel Finnie. The article includes an explanation of what phonics is, approaches to teaching phonics and an outline of the series.
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ArticleOnestop Phonics - Sounds
This series features specific letter sounds and letter combinations using a fun poem and pictures to illustrate the sounds. Each lesson has its own flashcard, audio, worksheet and teaching notes.
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Warmer/FillerSpelling Bee Games: Alphabet Sprint
Challenge your students with this Alphabet Sprint and have fun while getting ready for Spelling Bee.
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ArticleBeginning vocabulary: Practice activities
Olha Madylus offers a selection of fun and practical activities you can use to help your young learners practise the vocabulary they've learned.
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ArticleVocabulary Builders: Finding what follows—Patterns in verbs, adjectives, and prepositions
Find out how learning patterns of words helps you to discover the patterns of the English language. Now with Interactive Worksheets!
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ArticleWriting skills: formal and informal writing
To enable students to break down the different features of formal and informal English by working through a step-by-step text transformation at their own pace.
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Teaching toolSocial Emotional Tools: Reading Coupons
Give your students a coupon to build positive reading habits that boost their imagination.
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ArticleVocabulary Builders: Getting into a love of phrasal verbs
Practise with your students some of the most common phrasal verbs with come, get, and put. Now with Interactive Worksheets!
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ArticleLesson Share: Verb game
Abigail Kollas wins this month’s Lesson Share with a game practising the past simple and past participle forms of irregular verbs.
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Teaching toolMacmillan Dictionary Quizzes: Synonyms
In this Macmillan Dictionary quiz, you can test your knowledge of synonyms and which topics certain words belong to.