Elementary Level, Year 4-6
At Elementary level, Swedish Classes 4-6, students can read short stories by themselves and even write about things that they know well and are interested in. Stories can be watched, read, learned and dramatised. Some classes stop singing and reading fairy tales by year 5. Rhymes can take the form of chants and raps. All links presented in WebEnglish.se are carefully chosen from those the Web Author has used or intends to use in her own practice.
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English Conquers the World
Background English Speaking Countries A list of 87 countries where English is spoken as a first or an official second language Warm-up World Englishes (1:09) 30 countries with a million English speakers shown on a map Chapters English Conquers the ...
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New York 4-9
Songs I LOVE NY (2:20) A song about the famous places (any age) Frank Sinatra - New York, New York (4:18) (any age) with Listening Activities (5-9) Worksheets Places in the city - vocabulary A wordlist with definitions (yr ...
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Short Tour of London, 5-6
Instructions for Viewing 1. Make sure that you have Google Earth installed in your computer. Download Google Earth 2. Click on the file Short Tour of London.kmz to download the tour into your own computer (23 MB). 3 ...
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Spring is here! 1-6
Warm-up Spring Flowers Blooming (1:11) Timelapse video Spring is Here (year 1-3) Spring is Here Song (year 2-6) Songs English Time Songs, Spring Is Here (year 1-2) Spring Song (year 2-4) Spring is Here (year 2-4) Spring Arrival (year 2-4) Hungry Caterpillar (year 3-4) Let's ...
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Language Practice
This grid lists selected, relevant links to activities and materials for Elementary Level. The categories help you find suitable materials for the specific language skill you wish your students to practise.
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2015-12-13 Flashcards from British Council For registered users: A large collection of flashcards categorised in various themes |
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2015-12-13 Ideas to play with Flashcards 2 These ideas are suitable for all ages at beginner / elementary level of English |
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2015-12-13 Learning Chocolate; Vocabulary Learning Platfrorm Picture Dictionaries of various themes, audio vocabulary |
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2015-12-13 Mr. Nussbaum Spelling games on several levels |
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2015-12-13 Rehearsing Vocabulary Ideas to work with vocabulary |
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2015-12-13 The Internet Picture Dictionary A large Pictionary of nouns |
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2016-03-04 ESL Songs and Activities Educational Songs for Teaching English as a Second Language (yr 1-4) |
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2016-03-04 Five little monkeys Song on Youtube. Lyrics available at www.kidsongs.com (yr 3-4) |
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2016-03-04 Head, shoulders, knees and toes Song with lyrics |
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2016-03-04 I am a Pizza A song to play with food ingredients. Let students make their own pizza song |
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2015-12-13 If you're happy and you know it Karaoke, fun with the different languages at the end! |
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2016-03-04 More Tongue Twisters Tongue Twister Database from EFL Playhouse |
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2016-03-04 Old McDonald had a farm Song without subtitles. Lyrics available at www.kidsongs.com (yr 3-4) |
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2016-03-04 Old McDonald Had A Farm (faster) A fast version for good articulation practice. (yr 3-4) |
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2015-12-13 Polkadot pyjamas A chant about the morning rituals |
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2015-12-13 Polkadot pyjamas A chant about the morning rituals |
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2016-03-04 Songs for School Various songs suitable for year 2-4 |
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2016-03-04 Tell Me How You Feel Song about feelings. My 4th graders loved this song (yr 3-4) |
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2016-03-04 The Alphabet and Phonics Chant Learn the alphabet and the sounds of the letters (yr 3-4) |
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2016-03-04 The Hokey Pokey Song on Youtube. Lyrics available at www.kidsongs.com (yr 3-4) |
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2016-03-04 The Weather song Song with weather words on Youtube (yr 3-4) |
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2015-12-13 Tongue Twisters Listen and read easy tongue twisters, from Starfall.com |
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2016-02-08 Classroom Games Word games to be played on an Interactive Whiteboard. My 5th graders love these. |
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2015-12-13 English Wizz An online jeopardy game |
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2015-12-13 Question Words Games to play on Question Words. |
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2015-12-13 Verb Viper Verb recognition game, 1:1 |
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2015-12-13 Vocabulary Games Loads of games to play in class on an Interactive Whiteboard. My 5th graders love these. |
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2015-12-13 Warmers, Fillers, Ideas for Substitute Teachers These are my favourite games that I have used for ages and they work well. They suit especially well if you are suddenly put in front of a class you do not know so well. |
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2015-12-13 Word Builder Various spelling games on six different levels |
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2015-12-13 Word Find Word Search Puzzles. |
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2015-12-13 Word Games Several games to match the words and the pictures. 1:1 |
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2015-12-13 Year 6-7: Grammar Quizzes Jr 350 quizzes on various grammatical issues |
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2015-12-13 A1 Listening and reading exercises Long list of simple activities. 1:1 or copy on paper. |
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2016-01-17 Basic English Listening Lessons 34 Listening Lessons with straight forward questions and the script. |
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2015-12-13 Breaking News English News stories read in various levels and speeds. Also several activity types to choose from. |
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2016-03-04 Clifford Audio-books about a dog to read and listen to on IWB or 1:1. Year 3-4 |
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2015-12-13 English-test.net Listen to short sentences and choose which one describes the picture. A good end-of-class activity. |
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2015-12-13 Lauri's ESL Website Good listening tasks, but the answers are difficult to manage in class. Best done individually. |
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2015-12-13 LearnEnglish Teens - British Council Listening skills practice with exercises on various levels. Level A2 (5-6). |
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2015-12-13 Listening and reading stories A page with several stories read out loud. No activities. |
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2016-03-04 Little Red Riding Hood Listen and read, from British Council, Year 3-4 |
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2015-12-13 My Secret Land Children from various English speaking countries tell about their country and you should guess, which country it is (Year 5-6) |
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2016-03-04 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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2015-12-13 Roald Dahl AudioBooks Several Roald Dahl books read out. with pictures from the books |
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2016-03-04 Storynory Fun stories to read and listen to, Year 3-4 |
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2015-12-13 Test your Level of English Listening Online test assessing your listening skill between A2-C2 |
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2015-12-13 The Story Museum Inspirational stories to watch, hear, read and tell |
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2015-12-13 Year 6: 5-minute English Listening to every-day language dialogues |
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2015-12-13 Year 6: Spotlight Listen and Read Archives Very slowly read articles on various topics. No activities. |
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2015-12-13 Year 6: The Chronicles of Narnia Listen to the Chronicles of Narnia free on this website |
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2015-12-13 1st tip: Why and How to Use Videos? Explore the answers through this link. |
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2016-03-18 20+ Movie Scenes Before-And-After Special Effects Slide the divider in the middle to see how the movie scenes looked in reality and in the movie |
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2016-03-04 2nd 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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2015-12-13 3rd tip: Why and How to Use Silent Video in the EFL Classroom 5 ideas for the classroom |
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2015-12-13 50 best kids movies of all time A slideshow with both new and old favourites |
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2016-03-04 America's Funniest Home Videos For those who love FAILS. |
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2016-03-04 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Trailer of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a 2005 film adaptation of the 1964 British book of the same name by Roald Dahl and stars Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. (Wikipedia) |
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2015-12-13 Charlie Chaplin 65 Free Charlie Chaplin Films Online; modern history lessons? |
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2015-12-13 Documentary videos Very short videos from Cambridge University Press and Discovery |
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2016-03-04 English Kids TV English Short Stories For Kids - English Cartoons With English Subtitles |
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2015-12-13 Hook Hook is a 1991 fantasy adventure film by Steven Spielberg, starring Robin Williams, Julia Roberts and Dustin Hoffman. It acts as a sequel to the story of Peter Pan, but now Peter Pan is a grown-up and has forgotten his childhood. (Wikipedia) |
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2015-12-13 Ideas for Making Videos Ten ways to let your students make their own videos |
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2016-03-19 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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2015-12-13 Movieclips Watch randomly or search for your favourites |
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2016-03-04 Mr Bean - The Holiday Suitcase Free English Lesson Plan for this Mr Bean clip (yr 3-6) |
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2015-12-13 Multimedia English Various short films to learn English with. Choose Filters: Basic |
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2015-12-13 Nanny McPhee Nanny McPhee is a 2005 British fantasy film directed by Kirk Jones, starring Emma Thompson and Colin Firth. The film is adapted from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books. (Wikipedia) |
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2015-12-13 Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang. This is a 2010 sequel to the 2005 film Nanny McPhee. |
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2016-02-10 Story for Children (UK) A playlist of short story videos in British accent, with subtitles, |
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2016-02-10 Story for Children (US) A playlist of short story videos with subtitles |
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2015-12-13 Teach With Movies Suitable movies categorised according to a major theme, mostly for yr 7-9, some for yr 5-6 |
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2015-12-13 The LEGO® Movie A CGI-animated comedy based on the line of toys made by Lego. |
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2015-12-13 The Plight of FAR TOO MANY Pooches... A lesson plan to accompany a video about a rescued dog |
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2015-12-13 The Storyteller View List for The StoryTeller, a live-action/puppet television series. |
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2016-03-04 This is Britain - School Jamie tells about his school day, with subtitles on Youtube (yr 3-6) |
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2015-12-13 Viral ELT Viral Videos for English Language Teaching, just for the fun of it. |
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2015-12-13 Where the Wild Things Are Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 fantasy drama film directed by Spike Jonze and adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book Where the Wild Things Are. (Wikipedia) |
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2015-12-13 Xtra: Recommendations for Elementary |
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2016-03-04 Free Children's Stories Choose before you show the page as there are native speaker age-levels (yr 3-4) |
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2015-12-13 Funbrain Jr. Books See banner below. Scroll down to find "Tess's Tree" and the Funbrain Jr. Books |
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2016-03-04 It's soo cold A story to read, from Bedtime Story (yr 3-4) |
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2015-12-13 Jess M. Brallier, Tess's Tree Suits year 5-6. A beautiful life-story of Tess and a tree. |
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2016-03-04 Kidz Club, Reading level 2 and 3 Simple, short books to print or read online with basic elementary vocabulary (yr 3-4) |
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2015-12-13 Mary Poppins - Disney Story The story is read and the pages shown on YouTube. |
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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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2016-03-29 Poems Elementary 25 Must-Share Poems for Elementary School |
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2016-03-04 Short stories Stories from British Council LearnEnglishKids (yr 3-4) |
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2016-03-04 Starfall Reading A website with simple reading and listening in various levels, 2-6 |
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2016-03-04 Story Maker Choose words to make your own story, from British Council (yr 3-4) |
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2015-12-13 Storyline Short stories read by actors. Listen and Read. |
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2016-03-04 Storynory Fun stories to read and listen to, Year 3-4 |
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2015-12-13 The Æsop for Children Short fables with morale |
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2016-03-04 The Giving Tree Film adaptation of Shel SIlverstein children's book from 1964, (yr 3-4) |
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2016-03-04 The Giving Tree with text The Giving Tree story with text to read between the film snippets (yr 3-4) |
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2015-12-13 The Littlest Knight A story to read, from Children's Storybooks online |
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2016-03-04 Wolstencroft the Bear A story to read, from Children's Storybooks online (yr 3-5) |
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2015-12-13 Year 5: Easy Stories Reading Comprehension Four easy stories to read and answer the questions. Best done digitally. |
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2015-01-03 Year 6: It Happened to Me Stories, Reading Comprehension Seven short stories to read and answer the questions. Best done digitally. |
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2015-12-13 Year 6: Reading Worksheets ESL Reading Worksheets by www.elcivics.com |
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2015-12-13 Young Explorer Online Magazines from National Geographic |
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2015-12-13 100 Books Every Child Should Read, Early Years (yr 4-5) The Telegraph published this list in 2008. |
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2016-03-04 Book Report Sentence frames to help with writing about a book (yr 3-5) |
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2015-12-13 Book Review Template A printable template for writing a book review (yr 6-7) |
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2015-12-13 Books all children should read 100 fiction books all children should read before leaving primary school – according to teachers |
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2015-12-13 Classic Fairy Tales Well-known fairy-tales with a twist, suitable for level 5-7 |
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2015-12-13 e-books Oxford Owl Free e-books to share individually or with your class |
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2015-12-13 Epic Books E-books for children. An educator's account is free |
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2015-04-17 Essential Books Fantasy books for young teens, year 6-9. More categories to browse on the left. |
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2015-12-13 iStorybooks Well-known fairy tales and folk tales to read on IWB. |
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2015-12-13 Lincoln Peirce, Big Nate: From the Top Suits year 7, but even stronger year-6 students. One in a series of at least 12 books. |
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2015-12-13 Middle School A series with at least 10 books about a boy, illustrated. AdLibris has several. |
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2015-12-13 Nat Geo Books A collection of simple on-line non-fiction books to read on IWB |
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2015-12-13 Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox Suits years 5-6, even slower readers in year 7. A film version is available at Amazon.co.uk. |
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2015-12-13 Roald Dahl, Matilda (abridged) Suits year 6, but even slower readers in year 7. |
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2016-03-10 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Read and listen to a simplified version of the story read by actors (40:57) |
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2016-01-21 Wimpy Kid Club Activities for Wimpy Kid |
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2015-12-13 World Stories E-books to read and listen to |
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2015-12-13 Year 5: Just Books Read Aloud A selection of audio books on YouTube. Some with text, some without. |
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2015-12-13 Year 6: Just Books Read Aloud A selection of audio books on YouTube. Some with text, some without. |
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2015-12-13 150 Amazing Pictures A Slideshare show with pictures to inspire students' writing or talking, year 5-9 |
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2015-12-13 Ask a question and tell two things A printable board game to play with dice |
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2016-02-14 Icebreakers that Rock Ice-breakers that get students talking, but require very little social risk |
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2015-12-13 Random Questions and Answers Question and Answer Cards to copy, laminate and cut. Copy the Qs and As on different colour papers (3 sheets each). |
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2015-12-13 Talking Cards 36 question cards to get your students talking |
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2015-12-13 150 Amazing Pictures A Slideshare show with pictures to inspire students' writing or talking, year 5-9 |
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2016-03-14 500 Prompts Narrative And Personal Writing An inexhaustable list of topics to use for example for daily writing, in pdf |
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2015-12-13 Active Beginnings Prompts and other writing ideas |
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2015-12-13 Book Review Template A printable template for writing a book review (yr 6-7) |
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2015-12-13 Creative Writing Topics 50 positive creative writing topics suitable for year 5-6. |
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2015-12-13 Elementary Writing Prompts Writing prompts for narrative and opinion writing |
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2015-12-13 Interactive Story Starters Choose your story starter from a random selector machine. Great for year 6-8. |
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2015-12-13 Say It In Six How to write six-word memoirs. Suggestion: Let the students choose the most important word of their lives and then write a 6-word sentence. |
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2016-03-04 Stapleless Book Write your own your story and fold the paper into a book |
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2016-03-04 Story Pics Write a story to the picture |
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2015-12-13 Story starters Elementary writing and journal prompts and story starters |
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2016-03-04 StoryJumper Read online (IWB) or make your own book/s 1:1 (yr 2-6) |
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2015-12-13 The Secret Door Click the door to find a secret place to write about. What happens there? |
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2016-04-06 The Storymaker Be a 30-second author with our ever-popular Storymaker Game |
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2015-12-13 What would your life be like? Pics of imaginative homes. Pupils describe life living there or something that happens there. |
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2016-03-04 Writing Topics Here is some help to find topics for elementary writing practice (yr 3-6) |