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[Caffeinated]

Next week I start teaching an afterschool class of elementary Grades 1 and 2 students. I've been given free rein on what to do including deciding about a textbook, if needed. Does anyone have any suggestions for a textbook for this age group? If I got adventurous I suppose I could skip a textbook and go into a weekly storytime with them with related activities.

[Caffeinated]

Bump!

I could also use suggestions for bookstores in Seoul with an extensive ESL selection.

[Radius]

English Time, or English Travel are good. As is Backpack.

[Soju808]

IMO, I wouldn't use textbooks too much for Grade's 1 and 2.

I use the site

www.barryfunenglish.com

It's very simple to use and has so many resources. My kids really enjoy it and learn fast from it. The only you have to do is pay for the yearly subscription which is only around $15. You can ask your school to pay that fee for you.

[Caffeinated]

Thanks for the textbook suggestions. I checked some out at the bookstore and online but the content seemed too advanced for the students I'll be teaching.

I've heard about BarryFunEnglish.com for awhile now so I may just splurge and subscribe to it myself. A resource-sharing site I currently use is eslprintables.com.

[joeteacher]

I like Gogo's English (for level 1) and second the English time.

[shostahoosier]

I made my own English book.

The 1st and 2nd graders at my VERY RURAL school need a lot of repetition since I only see them once a week so I made a booklet with the alphabet, writing practice sheets, numbers 1-20, and REALLY basic vocabulary (weather, feelings, family, animals, etc.).

For the past 1.5 years most of my time with my 1st graders has involved teaching them the alphabet because they constantly forget.

My work with my 2nd graders is mostly reviewing the alphabet and teaching them phonics.

Maybe your school is more advanced though (again, I work in a rural area), but I'm not sure of how my 1st graders would handle a textbook. That first month of 3rd grade for me is like pulling teeth!

I got my alphabet writing sheets from http://www.first-school.ws/

I like stafall.com sheets too but they've been printing out weird on my computer lately.

I get my phonics from http://www.funfonix.com

[some waygug-in]

English Time also has a kindie level series Called "Magic Time".

I think it's 2 or 3 levels so you can see what would suit your needs.


If you want something really simple and something that needs little in the way of explanation, try Finding Out by David Paul.

In the workbook,
the pictures make the contexts perfectly clear and there are lots of crosswords and other puzzles for the students to work at.

The textbook itself can be kind of lame at times, but it depends what your doing with it.