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Products, Sites and Reviews for English learning products for Children

Products, popular sites and reviews for English learning products especially children. These products include printable resources for lessons, cut-outs, software, and other entertaining resources.

Top Teacher Resource Books for K - 12 ESL Learners

The range of language skills that young ESL learners need to acquire goes from basic speaking skills to the ability to express themselves in writing. These books focus on providing young ESL learners with all the skills they will need to succeed at school in an English speaking environment. They also young learners improve their English through...

Tell me More Kids Ingles

A fun and immersive software package that helps Spanish speaking children learn English while exploring an extremely well-designed virtual environment.

Runspotrun.com

Run Spot Run exists to find and share ideas for helping parents foster their children’s growth, interests and intellectual vitality. Categories include: analytical thinking, inquiry $ curiosity, literacy, self-expression, study skills, technology in education, understanding self and others and vim and vigor.

Top English Teaching Materials - Teacher Resource Books for K - 12 ESL Learners

Guide overview to buying Teacher Resource Books for K - 12 ESL Learners

Software

Review of TeLL me More Kids Ingles an English learning software product for Spanish speaking children

ABC Teach

Not necessarily an ESL site for children, however, ABC Teach does provide great printouts in very easy English so that children can read them. The directions are easy to read for someone trying to learn the language. Includes a great variety of subjects.

Young Learners

This special interest IATEFL site is dedicated to supporting everyone involved in teaching English (EFL/ESL) to children and teenagers. It has extensive resources, events listings and a newsletter.

Teach Children ESL

This site is entirely dedicated to teaching children ESL. There are many helpful categories such as top ideas, topics covering a wide range of subjects, software downloads, an idea archives, and more. The site requires a free registration and teachers can submit their own ideas and activities to share with others.

Primary School English Games and Activities

Richard Graham's excellent and extensive collection of ESL games for primary school updated on a monthly basis. Each game includes instructions and interesting example photos of the activity being used in school.

Kindersite Project

The Kindersite Project was founded to build an Internet-based system that will add to the body of research on the subjects of early-learners’ use of technology and to provide Internet-based content as a an educational tool.

Kids In Between

Publishers of educational materials for children who are "inbetween", i.e. not achievers, not lowest level. Although not specifically ESL related, it seems this site could be an excellent resource for young ESL leaners.

Kiddie Genius English

The Kids SyvumBook Series includes the English SyvumBook that specifically helps improve vocabulary, spelling and analytical skills through activities and exercises for the age group of 6-12,. To provide a systematic learning experience, four grades of Kids English SyvumBook are available.

Interactive English Activities from Syvum

Interactive activities for kids which build spelling, vocabulary, grammar and reading skills through online activities. These exercises have a new set of problems every time you reload an activity.

ESL Playhouse

Offers language-rich games, songs, fingerplays, and craft activities. Plenty of resources to help teaching ESL to young children.

ESL Kidstuff

This site is specifically designed for teachers of young learners. It provides over 800 flashcards, hundreds of worksheets, lots of games and more. If you teach children, this site can provide you with lots of ideas and resources to use in class.

ESL Elementary Education Discussion

Dave Sperling's ESL cafe discussion thread concerning ESL elementary education issues.

Bilingual Supplies for Children

This site provides a wide selection of ESL / EFL products for children's bilingual education for home or school use.

WordsAhead

WordsAhead strives to organize word study around SPEECH SOUNDS, not AaBbCc’s. It's exercises focus on helping children through sound-by-sound, articulating and spelling-out individual speech sounds.

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