Beginner Level, Year 1-3
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During the first years of English studies, Beginner Level, the lesson periods in Sweden are short, 20-30 minutes once or twice a week, getting gradually longer. Some teachers just choose to take “English moments” at first when time allows. According to the Swedish Curriculum, these periods/moments should consist of songs/rhymes, vocabulary and dialogues/stories. WebEnglish.se presents these both within themes and as individual language practice links. Reading English words is not expected during the first year, but by the second year students can read and write simple words and phrases moving on to very short texts by year three.
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Themes for Beginner Level
This grid lists selected, relevant links to Themes for Beginner Level.
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2016-12-29 Animals, year 3 A theme mainly about pets and farm animals with lesson plans, year 3 |
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2016-05-06 Autumn - Fall 2-6 A theme page with vocabulary and other activities about autumn |
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2016-12-29 Circus Clowns and Carnivals, 1-6 A theme page about Circus and Clowns, year 1-6 |
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2017-07-31 Eating Out, 3-4 A theme page about food and eating out, year 3-4 |
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2017-01-03 Fairy Tale, Cinderella A theme page with videos and various other activities to work with the fairy tale |
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2017-01-03 Fairy Tale, Little Red Riding Hood A theme page with videos and various other activities to work with the fairy tale |
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2017-01-03 Fairy Tale, Sleeping Beauty A theme page with videos and various other activities to work with the fairy tale |
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2017-01-03 Fairy Tale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs A theme page with videos and various other activities to work with the fairy tale |
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2017-01-03 Fairy Tale, The Emperor's New Clothes A theme page with videos and various other activities to work with the fairy tale |
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2017-01-03 Fairy Tale, The Three Billy Goats Gruff A theme page with videos and various other activities to work with the fairy tale |
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2017-01-03 Fairy Tales, in General A theme page about fairy tales with reading, listening and writing activities as well as videos |
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2017-04-02 Feelings, 1-4 A theme page about feelings and emotions, year 1-4 |
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2016-12-29 Food and Drinks 1-2 A theme page about eating, food and drink, year 1-2 |
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2016-12-29 Games and Hobbies, 1-4 A theme page about games and hobbies, year 1-4 |
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2016-12-29 London A theme page about London, year 3-9 |
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2017-09-10 Monsters, 3-5 A theme page with lesson plans, year 3-5. |
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2017-01-03 My Book About Me, 1-3 Ideas to have students make their own books about themselves |
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2017-08-19 School Start 1-6 Ideas to get acquainted, inspire the students to believe in themselves and teach them to be good language learners. |
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2016-12-29 Sports A theme page about sports with reading, listening and speaking activities as well as videos, year 2-9 |
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2016-12-29 Spring is here! A theme page about the season of Spring, year 1-6 |
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2016-12-29 Summer, 1-6 A theme page about Summer Holiday, year 1-6 |
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2016-07-19 This is Me Three pages to use in the first lesson with new students. |
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2017-09-16 Weather, 1-6 A theme about the weather with lesson plans, year 1-6. |
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2016-07-18 Winter Wonderland 1-9 A theme page about winter for all levels, the suitable level marked for each link. |
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Language Practice for Beginner Level
This grid lists selected, relevant links to activities and materials for Beginner Level. The categories help you find suitable materials for the specific language ability you wish your students to practise.
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2017-01-03 5 Flashcard Games for young learners These activities are a great way to practice vocabulary and speaking with young learners |
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2016-07-18 ABC song Words in alphabetical order to a song rhythm (year 1) |
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2015-12-13 Abradagabra Vocabulary and Stories Simple vocabulary in 6 themes (click on the pictures) with a short story. |
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2017-01-03 Anglomaniacy vocabulary Vocabuary in themes with 5 types of exercises each, even printables. |
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2017-01-03 Big numbers Song of all numbers. My kids loved this in 4th grade! |
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2017-03-17 Body Parts Learn Body Parts by singing, on Youtube |
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2017-03-17 Color Songs Collection Vol. 1 Learn Colours with songs and Nursery Rhymes. The text is visible, but the words are all very basic and easy to understand in the written form. |
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2017-03-17 Colour Songs PINK starts a playlist with ORANGE, BLUE and RED following |
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2017-01-03 Describing animals Animated guessing game with well known wild animals. More about animals in the theme Animals, yr 3 |
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2017-01-03 Enchanted Learning Some free resources. If you are teaching beginners a membership is recommended |
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2016-07-19 English for children Three 15-min units to learn vocabulary and simple sentences. |
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2015-12-13 Flashcards Flashcards of various topics from MES-English.com |
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2017-01-03 How to use flashcards with young children Some good ideas for using flashcards with beginners. |
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2017-01-03 Ideas to play with Flashcards 2 These ideas are suitable for all ages at beginner / elementary level of English |
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2017-03-17 Learning Chocolate; Vocabulary Learning Platfrorm Picture Dictionaries with very basic beginner vocabulary with audio |
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2016-07-18 Learning Videos Several 2-3-min videos teaching basic vocabulary |
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2017-04-22 Little Fox Five free films with simple vocabulary. Watch in Page by Page mode if you want to see the text |
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2017-01-03 Months Song of the months on Youtube |
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2015-12-13 More Flashcards Flashcards with or without words, from ESL-Kids.com |
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2017-04-22 Numbers NB! Quizzes for numbers support GOOGLE CHROME only |
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2017-03-17 Numbers 1-10 Song of little numbers on Youtube |
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2017-03-17 Numbers Counting to 10 Collection Vol. 1 Kids Learn to Count with Songs and Nursery Rhymes, basic vocabulary. The text is visible. |
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2016-07-18 Object Alphabet A picture for each letter in the alphabet. |
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2017-01-03 School items Talking Flashcards on Youtube |
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2017-03-17 Sparklebox Flashcards for all types of words, not only nouns |
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2016-07-18 The Alphabet Words in alphabetical order with a phrase to learn (year 2) |
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2017-01-03 Using Flashcards in the Classroom A video about The Very Hungry Caterpillar and about how to make your own flashcards |
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2017-01-03 Weekdays Song of the weekdays on Youtube |
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2017-03-17 Wordsmyth Kids Vocabulary with pictures in themes, and a dictionary, suitable for year 2-4, (1:1) |
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2017-04-22 A for Apple 'The well-known ABC song in a slightly different version (yr 1) |
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2017-04-22 ABC Songs Playlist for songs with the alphabet |
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2017-04-22 Barefoot Books Song Playlist Several songs with lyrics on the screen, suitable for year 3-4 |
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2016-07-18 Brown Bear Activities 25 Ways to Play With Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (yr 1-2) |
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2016-07-18 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Bill Martin reads/sings Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (year 1-2) |
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2017-04-22 Days of the Week Let's learn the Days of the Week! It's a fast song, can you kee up? |
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2016-07-17 Dr Seuss A collection of short cartoons of Dr Seuss' books |
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2017-04-22 ESL SONGS & CHANTS Simple chants with movement and lyrics |
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2016-08-28 Good Morning Song A song to sing in the morning in year 1-2 |
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2016-08-28 Good-bye Song A simple song to sing at the end of the day, year 1-2 |
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2016-07-18 Greetings All greetings in one song. Text is first invisible but visible on the encore. |
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2016-07-18 Head, shoulders, knees and toes Song on Youtube. Lyrics available at www.kidsongs.com |
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2016-07-18 Hokey Pokey Action song, no lyrics |
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2017-01-03 If you're happy and you know it Karaoke, fun with the different languages at the end! |
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2017-01-03 Lyrics at Kidsongs.com Lyrics to all kidsongs.com songs |
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2015-12-13 Mama-Lisa's World Nursery Rhymes |
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2017-09-03 Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Wheels on the Bus and More Nursery Rhymes by Mother Goose Club Playlist! |
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2016-07-18 SnapSmartKids songs Songs for young beginners, no lyrics |
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2016-07-19 Tongue Twisters Listen and read easy tongue twisters, from Starfall.com |
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2016-07-18 Trampoline Song TuTiTu Song, lyrics available below |
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2016-07-18 TuTiTu Songs for Children (with Lyrics) A playlist of simple songs, lyrics availabe below |
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2017-01-03 Winnie's song A song to the story of Winnie the Witch |
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2017-01-06 ESL Listening tests Very short listening tests for primary students. Choose a higher grade for elementary students. |
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2016-07-18 Little Red Riding Hood Listen and read, from British Council, Year 3-4 |
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2016-07-18 Revolting Rhymes_ Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Watch and listen to the twisted story by Roald Dahl. No text available. Year 3-4 |
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2017-01-03 Spycat An animated story, with subtitles, from British Council, year 3-5 |
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2016-07-18 Storynory Fun stories to read and listen to, Year 3-4 |
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2017-03-17 A tip: What to Do With That Awkward 5 or 10 Minutes of Class You Have Left ANSWER: Watch a short film or video! |
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2016-07-18 America's Funniest Home Videos For those who love FAILS. |
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2017-01-03 Beginning ESL Video Quizzes Short videos with comprehension questions made by teachers (yr 3-4) |
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2017-01-03 BrainPOP A course in beginner English. Only the first unit on each level is free |
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2017-01-03 Charlie and Lola A series of 36 episodes with two siblings and their everday struggles, 10-11 min each. (yr 3-4) |
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2017-01-03 English Central Very short clips to practise vocabulary with. Requires registration (yr 3-4) |
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2017-11-10 English For Kids – Gogo's Adventures with English A cartoon series of 39 episodes, about 5 min each, to learn English with |
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2016-07-18 English Kids TV English Short Stories For Kids - English Cartoons With English Subtitles |
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2016-10-22 English Short Stories For Kids (45:54) Six stories in a playlist, starting with very simple ones |
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2017-01-03 Land Before Time The Land Before Time is a 1988 American animated adventure drama film produced by Steven Spielberg, It features dinosaurs living in the prehistoric times. (Wikipedia) |
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2017-01-03 Learn English Conversation For Kids Easy English Conversation, episode 1 |
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2016-07-18 Magic English Disney 1-32 YouTube series from Disney, introducing new English vocabulary and phrases in themed 25-min programmes. Suits even younger kids. |
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2016-07-18 Mr Bean - The Holiday Suitcase Free English Lesson Plan for this Mr Bean clip (yr 3-6) |
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2017-05-04 Room on the Broom Animated Kids Story with subtitles (26:44) |
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2017-01-03 The Present (4:19) Watch, discuss and write about (theme handicap) |
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2016-07-18 This is Britain - School Jamie tells about his school day, with subtitles on Youtube (yr 3-6) |
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2017-09-08 Video Lessons Short films with (optional) interactive activities |
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2016-10-05 Winnie's House, Part 1 The story of Winnie, her cat and her house (5:40) on YouTube. Then the same with captions. |
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2017-01-03 Xtra: Recommendations for Elementary |
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2017-04-07 A1. Kidz Club, Reading level 1 Simple, short books to print or read online with basic beginner vocabulary. |
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2017-01-22 Book Recommendations WebEnglish.se presents a list of 52 Children’s Books suitable for English ESL/EFL classes 2-9 in Sweden |
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2017-01-03 Book Report Sentence frames to help with writing about a book (yr 3-5) |
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2017-01-03 Children's Books Very easy books to read and listen to. |
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2016-07-17 Classroom Library 100 picture books suggestions for your classroom library |
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2016-12-06 Clifford, the Big, Red, Dog Interactive storybooks and games (year 2-3) |
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2017-09-24 e-books Oxford Owl Free e-books to share with your elementary class |
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2017-01-03 Early Readers Books with limited vocabulary for students in year 2-3 |
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2017-01-03 English Stories For Learning English 1 Learn English conversation for beginners (44 min) |
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2017-01-03 Epic Books E-books for children. An educator's account is free |
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2016-07-18 Free Children's Stories Choose before you show the page as there are native speaker age-levels (yr 3-4) |
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2016-07-18 It's soo cold A story to read, from Bedtime Story (yr 3-4) |
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2017-01-03 Just Books Read Aloud A selection of audio books on YouTube. Some with text, some without. |
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2016-12-06 Kidz Club, Reading level 2 and 3 Simple, short books to print or read online with basic elementary vocabulary (yr 3-6) |
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2016-07-18 Learn to Read Short e-books with pictures and easy vocabulary to read in class 2-3 on the IWB |
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2016-12-06 Lil' Fingers Animated, interactive storybooks |
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2016-12-06 Mighty Book Animated e-books (year 2-5) |
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2016-08-20 Muffin Tin Reading Games All you need is a muffin tin to play games with words |
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2017-01-03 My Book Report A template to write about a real book the student has read, (yr 2-3) |
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2017-01-03 Online Stories A large collection of e-books to read in class, suitable for year 3-4 |
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2016-12-06 Online Storytime Some well-known books available on video, read out with pictures from the book |
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2016-03-04 Play a reading game Read a book by Seuss and have the kids jump every time they hear "go". (yr 3-4) |
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2017-09-19 Reading A-Z Leveled Reading, book packages in pdf to read online or print out. 14-day FREE TRIAL. |
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2016-03-04 Short stories Stories from British Council LearnEnglishKids (yr 3-4) |
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2017-09-16 Sight Words Dolch Sight Word lists and methods to help student learn to read English |
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2016-07-19 Starfall A website with simple reading and listening in various levels, 2-6 |
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2017-01-03 Starfall Books A collection of simple on-line books to read and play with |
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2017-01-03 Starfall Comics Very short stories for learning to read, from Starfall.com |
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2016-07-18 Story Maker Choose words to make your own story, from British Council (yr 3-4) |
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2016-07-18 StoryJumper Read online (IWB) or make your own book/s 1:1 (yr 2-6) |
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2016-07-18 Storynory Fun stories to read and listen to, Year 3-4 |
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2016-12-06 StoryPlace Animated e-books with audio (year 2-4) |
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2017-01-03 The Very Hungry Caterpillar With this well-known story you can practise fruits, days of the week and the life cycle of a caterpillar. |
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2017-01-03 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Teaching Resources Various printables to go with the book |
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2016-08-21 Unite for Literacy Factual picture books to read on IWB or 1:1 (yr 2-5) |
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2016-10-05 Winnie the Witch An audiobook |
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2016-10-05 Winnie the Witch in 5 short episodes 1 – 1.5-minute clips of the 10-minute story Winnie the Witch on Youtube, with captions. |
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2016-10-05 Winnie's House, Part 1 The story of Winnie, her cat and her house (5:40) on YouTube. Then the same with captions. |
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2016-10-12 Wolstencroft the Bear A story to read, from Children’s Storybooks online (yr 3-5) |
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2017-01-03 Ziggity Zoom Stories Children's Books to read and listen to |
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2016-08-06 Minibook Downloadable mini-book templates to get your student writing |
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2016-07-18 Story Pics Write a story to the picture |
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2016-07-18 StoryJumper Read online (IWB) or make your own book/s 1:1 (yr 2-6) |
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2017-02-01 WriteReader Write your own books |
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2016-07-18 Writing Topics Here is some help to find topics for elementary writing practice (yr 3-6) |