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Primary Resources - free worksheets, lesson plans and teaching ideas for primary and elementary teachers. it is a page when you can find different resources, on the left, if you click on: English, you find English resources, please check some of them. I have been watching some of sentence level and is interesting to use in class, maybe it will be helpful for our pupils. What do you think?

Hi mates! In this website you could find word games, quizzes, songs, printable worksheets and a lot of ESL resources for parents and teachers. I wish you find it useful!

Awesome! This is one of the most interesting contents that I've seen on this platform. I especially love the songs of this web. Nevertheless, during my school experience, I didn't work with this kind of resources.

really interesting and useful!

Hi classmates! I want to share with you a quite helpuf resource I've found on the net. As we all know and as we have been told since the beginning of our lessons, storytelling can be perfect tool for English lessons. On this web, we as teachers and our pupils can create our own stories in a dynamyc and funny way. First of all, you have to choose the theme the story is going to be about and the grade of your pupils. Afterwards, it appears a kind of spin with different levers, and so comes to the screen aleatory facts to make an story. Afterwards, we can choose the format for our story and we can select the option of making a draw. Once we have completed this step, it's time to write the story and make a picture if we want. Finally, you can download the story in your computer. I would like you to have a look at this fantastic resource which appart from working storytellings, promotes the use of the ICT's. I hope you enjoy it.

It's a very interesting website. I liked that there are 4 different themes to create stories. I think I will use it Thank you!

I like so much this page, is a good tools to use in primary because each pupils can choose about what want they write, so each pupils write about their interesting. I hope that in the future we can use all of tools that we are sharing! :)

Hello Group!!! It's a very good web page and very useful for us. In this PDF we can find information about planning. It answers different questions, like for example, why is planning important, what aspects you have to include in a lesson plan, etc. On the other hand, the guide also explains us five aspects that must be included in a lesson plan: -Learning Objectives -Assessments -Activities -Materials and Resources -Wrap-up and Reflection Finally, the guide includes an appendix with three resources as: Lesson Plan Templates; Sample Lesson Plan and Sample Rubrics. It's very recommendable for young teachers because it explains very well the importance of planning

Hi again folks! This is another really interesting web, where you can find too many resources that can be really useful for us now and in the future. This web is divided in some sections: TOPICS: This section introduces young learners to basic English vocabulary grouped into 36 thematic topics, reflecting kids' interests. EXPRESSIONS: This section contains an online picture story divided into 36 episodes, plus printable worksheets and board games for introducing, practicing and revising new words and phrases. GRAMMAR: Learn and practice English grammar in a fun and colorful way. This section is divided into 7 parts called adventures. Each adventure is about a different point of grammar and comes with online and printable activities. ENGLISH SONGS FOR KIDS: This section contains a small collection of the most popular English songs for kids and Christmas carols. There are others interesting sections as games, printable activities, text etc. I will recommend you to see it. I hope that you enjoy it!

Hi class: This is a about Storytelling. Storytelling is an art that has mental, social and educational benefits on children. People of all ages love stories. Children are great fans of stories and love to listen to them. Storytelling literally means reading out stories to them or just telling a story from the memory to them. I think this is an important resource for teaching EFL.

Very interesting and useful! i add to my collection of resources and readings :)

Hello, class! I've found an useful Web to work with ICT in the school. It's very intuitive for the teachers and it's attractive for the pupils. It's has a variety of activities. I think that to know this kinds of resources can help the teachers to attend the diversity. I hope you like it!

Bbc has got a great web page, it content things to learn english, to teach english, and a lot of resources to practise and to teach english.I recommend it to you.

Hello! I want to share with you this blog entry about the top-down processing of language. "Whole language" is a method of teaching children to read by recognizing words as whole pieces of language. Whole language is an approach to teaching reading and writing which differs in many ways from the traditional system in which most of us learned to read and write. Proponents of the whole language philosophy believe that language should not be broken down into letters and combinations of letters and "decoded." Instead, they believe that language is a complete system of making meaning, with words functioning in relation to each other in context. You can also check the following websides: http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/literacy/referencematerials/glossaryofliteracyterms/WhatIsATopDownReadingModel.htm http://www.avko.org/Essays/whole_language.htm http://www.sabes.org/resources/publications/fieldnotes/vol10/f02abrah.htm http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97nov/read.htm

Hi mattes! You can find here lots of resources to help you learn about appropriate methods of assessment in language classrooms.

Hello! This website is devoted to differentiation and is reviewed by Dr. Tomlinson and her colleagues at University of Virginia (USA). You can find resources, sample lesson plans, practical strategies and discussion rooms devoted to differentiation.

This web page may help us complete our knowledge about AfL and putting into practice just following some few steps. I recommend you surfing all the different sections because you will find highly interesting researches, resources and tools that will certainly become vital when thinking about an useful way to apply AfL efectively. Please, do not forget to visit the Professional Learning Modules and Tools!! Specially Graphic Organisers Tools because they include real comments of teachers who implemented them in their classes.

Hi classmates! This is my second contribution in diigo. Last week we had an exhibition of storytelling. One of the stories that the professional told us was "the very hungry caterpillar", written by Eric Carle. I strongly believe that tell our students this story could be very useful, especially because it contains lots of interesting vocabulary. Here, in this page, you can find plenty of activities that will reinforce the vocabulary learnt by the students. As we have seen this weeks in the university, English classroom is dominated by the textbook. It decides what we have to do in the classroom. Nevertheless, we can use a lot of resources in order to produce intrinsic motivation in our pupils. I consider that storytelling can be a good learning tool because it promotes among other things, creativity and imagination. Furthermore, if we use stories in class, we will encourage the development of language among students. Here you can read the story http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/Very_Hungry_Caterpillar_Printable_Booklet.PDF I hope you like it!

i like so much the story, easy and very useful for teachers

Hi classmates! this web page I found it when I started to teaching in my free-time. I think that it is a good page because if you aren't creative you can use pictures and tools for this web page. There are a lot of pictures, flash card, little stories and a lot of thing... I think that it can result useful. I hope that you see it!

I like to much this page in order than you can teach some vocabulary exercises in a funny way. For example if you explaining the lesson about sport, you can use the crossword that the web offers. Also you can work other difficult tasks as irregular verbs in a funny way. The student learn better if they enjoy it. Good work and thanks!

but not only there are crosswords, there are a lot of activities, like a telling in a photocopiable, functions, notions... I liked it so much! and I use it a lot of time!

Hello every one!! I found out a page where there are a lot of information and examples of rubrics. You can use it to take ideas, and also you can make your own rubrics because in the bottom of the page you can found resources to do it.

Hi mates, I want share a page with you that is really useful for the teachers, I never had listened speak about it. This page going to allow you work of a very easy way the foreign language with very useful watchings, readings, writings, speakings... You will can work with dinamic and motivate activities all the skills with your pupils, I'm sure that the guys will enjoy while they learn. You can also press the button "teaching english" and the page will take a teachers profile and you can found other very useful resources. I know that this page goes a little out of the script of our contributions in Diigo, I know that it's a very practical page, but I considered that I should share it with my classmates, I believe that this kind of page should also be shared here in Diigo. THANKS SO MUCH!

Good Morning mates! I have found this article of Cambridge where explains for to create effective language lessons. But I want to do reference in pages 35-42 because we can solve doubts we have about planning, is very simple. Here explains the advantages (is a road map for the teacher, provides security, determines sequencing and timing) Also, this article advises us about the essential aspects to take into account to develop an effective plan, as the way to approach goals, groupings, resources. It´s very easy to understand, and only in seven pages!

This is another interesting game that stresses that children have to look at the small details. It can be played individually, in pairs or in teams but usually, it is played in pairs. Pair-work offers intensive, realistic practice promoting a friendly classroom ambiance in which multiplies the opportunity to practice the language. It is an efficient way of spending classroom time. I strongly recommend you to use it in the class!

Thanks Jorge! Both are interesting games which we can use in a class for practice different attitudes. With this one, for instance, we can work also the visual intelligence. Good work!

I always liked that game :)

Hi guys! Today I am going to share with you a game quite interesting. It is available in three languages and also has three different levels of difficulty. I used it last year in the practices and the truth is that children were highly motivated. Hangman is an example of competitive game. Pupils play in order to be the first to achieve the goal. This type of game is very motivating for students. However, teachers must teach them to enjoy participating and the right attitude when losing a game. Furthermore, 'Run and point' is another game that can be played in a competitive way. So long!

I really like this game! I think you can use in primary perfectly! It also includes different topics and levels! Jorge, thank you very much!

hi again! Im back to show you now a resource for teachers. Here you have a website where you can find rubrics for us, future teachers. Well It's for teachers but we have to feel familiar with them because they are so important. Evaluation is very relevant in the teaching learning process so better not forget it!

I also think it is important to get familiar to rubrics in order to use them properly in the future. So far, I believe rubrics are a communicative tool that let your students know what you expect from them.

Yes, I agree with Inma, with this assessment tool children will be more confident in the learning process, because they will know exactly what they have to achieve. Security and self confident can increase easily :)