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I added 200 more images to Tools for Educators.

The new images include: bathroom items, buildings, living room items, hair styles and descriptions, superhero vocabulary and plural nouns.

I hope it's helpful.

I added a new printable picture dictionary worksheet maker to the site http://www.toolsforeducators.com/handouts/picturedictionary.gif You can create picture dictionary pages with 12, 16 or up to 20 vocabulary words per category. Over 40 categories or a full list of 2,000+ images. I hope that helps.

There are a lot of resources on www.funfonix.com

There are downloadable workbooks, phonics worksheet makers you can use to make your own worksheets and phonics games online that students can play to practice spelling and reading.

There's a new alphabet introduction workbook in the Fun Fonix series - Fun Fonix ABC http://www.funfonix.com/images/ffonix_abc.gif It has letter recognition activities, letter tracing with fingers, coloring and sound recognition exercises for each letter. You can find other printable phonics workshe...

Large classes are tough, but keep it simple to start. Get your students in a good routine. Use pair work and group work in 4s. Slowly build activities in complexity and keep a constant format. It can be done. I teach conversation classes at a university with 45 students in the class. When asking for...

For phonics worksheets you can try Fun Fonix.com. There are 5 workbooks available free for download as well as worksheet makers, clipart and other materials

I've added a comic strip maker or dialog worksheet maker http://www.mes-english.com/worksheets/images/comicstripmaker.gif It's a quick and easy online program. You just open the maker, typ in your text and hit the print button. You can make dialogs with 6 exchanges A: B: A: B: A: B: I'm hoping to ha...

This is an old topic, but one of the most important first steps for the teacher is to be ready with writing topics. You need to have themes and maybe examples of what the students should write. I'd start really simple, maybe have them review another website. I'd also require them to comment on 2 or ...

Supporting the phonics method and balance ... I think teaching phonics is very important and especially to students with first language isn't a Roman alphabet based system. The idea that the letter combinations (and not only the letters themselves carry) have particular readings can be enlightening....

you could make some printable Christmas cards ... That's always a fun Christmas craft. You can also find a lot of ESL Christmas printables and activities here. There are flashcards, game cards, worksheets, coloring, printable board games and more. The materials are very flexible so hopefully they'll...

There are a lot of ideas you can use on www.mes-english.com . There are printable games, like Spiders and Candy that are great for 2 year olds. There are also a lot of ideas in the games and activities forums . It's a site for ESL teachers who are teaching young learners. If you have a questions, it...

You can also try to MES curriculum for ideas to help you get your lesson plans together. There are all kinds of printables, games, and activities that you can use to support these on that site as well. www.mes-english.com/curriculum/ - Mark certificate templates | printable cards | printable calenda...

you can listen to an explanation of the TPR method here: http://www.mes-english.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2351 It's a podcast on the Total Physical Response method and has some ideas for activities and using the method with young learners. - Mark certificate templates | printable cards | printable ...

Interesting posts. I use a lot of TPR activities in my classes. It's a big part of all of my children classes. However, my teaching situation allows me to focus on communicative methods, exclusively if I wanted to. I had this conversation with a teacher not to long ago. But the worksheet method migh...

I don't know that there is a specific equation for how long. Some grammar points are more salient and some are much harder to grasp. For example the idea of plural and singular for your Asian students might be very difficult since they don't differentiate between the two, at least in Japanese and Ko...