Useful Links for Teaching Kids
- An introduction to the sort of resources you can find on the Internet
- Sites devoted to teaching English to kids
- Sites with instructions or information in German:
- Sites with useful links
- Ideas for lessons with kids
- Managing young learners or take a look at some ideas for discipline at Dave's ESL Cafe.
- How to use musical activities with kids (including some examples)
- Some hints on good storytelling technique.
- Authentic resources:
- A web site about using authentic picture story books in EFL teaching The REALBOOK Web site and an article about using storybooks with kids Learning English Through Children's Literature
- KIDiddles Mouseum, Action Songs a website with lots of children's songs, listen to the melody, print out the lyrics, read instructions for the actions all right here on the Internet.
- Videos of action songs and rhymes, e.g.Fun Song Factory
- Song books that give instructions on actions, e.g. Round and Round the Garden This one comes with a cassette or CD.
- CDs of children's songs (just use the lyrics that are printed in the CD booklet), e.g. Kids Songs 1 CD (The musical notation and guitar chords provided in the Kids' Songs books are often wrong!)
- Well-known kids' songbooks Wee Sing and Play
- Wally Whyton recorded lots of traditional songs and rhymes in the fifties, this provides a great resource, but watch out, many are explicitly or subliminally racist or sexist, avoid anything that seems even slightly iffy!
- Woodie Guthrie and Pete Seeger also recorded a lot of childrens songs.
- A book of Hand Rhymes
- MPIK's Kids' Sites lists useful resources for teachers.
- Enchanted Learning lots of ideas for fun things to do and make with kids.
- Playground clapping games for kids
- A site (written by my Dad!) about how to write a pantomime for kids. A pantomime is a musical comedy play performed traditionally at Christmas time in Britain.
- Training:
- Books on the subject: