Projects with Young Learners - Primary Resource Books for Teachers

Projects with Young Learners - Primary Resource Books for Teachers
Author: Diane Phillips
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2013-05-20
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 0194426017

Contains practical, tried-and-tested ideas and materials for planning, organizing, and carrying out project work with children aged between 5 and 13. Combines language and skills development with activities which challenge young learners and motivate them to be independent.

Young Learners

Young Learners
Author: Sarah Phillips
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1993-12-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780194371957

Based on the principle that English lessons form an integral part of a young learner's whole education, and that the teacher has a responsibility than the simple teaching of the language system. This work provides practical ideas for a variety of language practice activities, including art and crafts, drama, games, storytelling, and songs.

Assessing Young Learners

Assessing Young Learners
Author: Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2003-07-31
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780194372817

Helps teachers to assess children's progress in English, in a way that is appropriate for young learners.

Inspiring Spaces for Young Children

Inspiring Spaces for Young Children
Author: Jessica DeViney
Publisher: Gryphon House Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780876593172

The classroom environment is an essential component for maximizing learning experiences for young children. "Inspiring Spaces for Young Children "invites teachers to enhance children's educational environment in a beautiful way by emphasizing aesthetic environmental qualities that are often overlooked in early childhood classrooms, such as nature, color, furnishings, textures, displays, lighting, and focal points. Step-by-step instructions and lush photographs take educators through the process of transforming ordinary classrooms into creative, beautiful learning spaces, providing children with an environment where they can learn and grow. With easy-to-implement ideas that incorporate nature, children's artwork, and everyday classroom materials, the photographs and ideas in this book promote creativity, learning, and simple beauty.

English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners

English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners
Author: Mikyung Kim Wolf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317379039

English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners provides both theoretical and empirical information about assessing the English language proficiency of young learners. Using large-scale standardized English language proficiency assessments developed for international or U.S. contexts as concrete examples, this volume illustrates rigorous processes of developing and validating assessments with considerations of young learners’ unique characteristics. In this volume, young learners are defined as school-age children from approximately 5 to 13 years old, learning English as a foreign language (EFL) or a second language (ESL). This volume also discusses innovative ways to assess young learners’ English language abilities based on empirical studies, with each chapter offering stimulating ideas for future research and development work to improve English language assessment practices with young learners. English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners is a useful resource for students, test developers, educators, and researchers in the area of language testing and assessment.

Young Learners - Primary Resource Books for Teachers

Young Learners - Primary Resource Books for Teachers
Author: Sarah Phillips
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013-03-08
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 0194425959

Practical ideas are provided for a wide variety of language practice activities. By Sarah Phillips. Part of the Primary Resource Books for Teachers series.

Assessing Young Language Learners

Assessing Young Language Learners
Author: Penny McKay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 13
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0521841380

This book offers a comprehensive framework for the assessment of young language learners.

Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners
Author: Penny McKay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2007-03-16
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521691346

A selection of short activities organized around six themes: Animals, Journeys, Fantasy and adventure, The world around us, Healthy bodies, and About me.

Developing Vocabulary and Oral Language in Young Children

Developing Vocabulary and Oral Language in Young Children
Author: Rebecca D. Silverman
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-11-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1462518257

This book presents the most effective instructional strategies for promoting vocabulary growth in the early grades, when the interdependence of word learning and oral language development is especially strong. The authors guide teachers in choosing the best materials and in fostering home-school connections, and share six key principles for building vocabulary. Included are guiding questions; text boxes connecting vocabulary to the Common Core State Standards; examples from real teachers; reproducible checklists, rubrics, and other tools; and an appendix of additional vocabulary resources. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

HOT Skills

HOT Skills
Author: Steffen Saifer
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605545570

Too many teaching and learning activities require students to use only lower-order thinking (LOT), and many of the attempts educators make to promote higher-order thinking (HOT) are misconstrued. Higher-order thinking makes teaching and learning more engaging and intentional, adds intellectual rigor to any curriculum, and aids in the development of some important life skills among young learners Even preschoolers are capable of a great deal of higher-order thinking. Infusing a play-based curriculum with activities and interactions that promote higher-order thinking creates the type of play that fosters cognitive, language, physical, and social development. It is important to start developing students’ higher-order thinking skills when they are young, and this book provides numerous strategies for doing so. Most of the activities are in the form of open-ended interactive games that can be easily modified to be responsive to variety of cultures and to meet a range of learning abilities, styles, and intelligences.