Incorporating ESL assessments into your lessons is an important way to evaluate your students’ language proficiency and monitor their progress over time. Here are some tips on the best way to craft effective ESL assessments and incorporate them into your…
Creative writing prompts are a powerful way to teach students English and I enjoy using them the most with middle school and high school students. It’s really hard to get that age group to open up, but creative writing prompts…
Phonological awareness, phonemic awareness vs phonics Though all three terms have to do with sound, as seen by the prefix “phon”, Phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics are distinct terms that refer to different skill sets. An early reader can…
Positive Praise in an Online Class There are many ways to praise students in an online class creatively! So, if you are finding yourself reliant on the same “great job” and thumbs up over and over again, maybe it’s time…
You cannot download your VIPKid Class Playback Videos directly, but you can save the class videos using screen capture methods. But, first…where can you watch your past class playbacks? Go into classrooms and then hit the all classes button Find…
Are you looking for new phrases to use in your feedback for your ESL classes online because your feedback kind of stale? After a few years of doing this, it is easy to fall into the trap of reusing the…
Let’s talk about some fun games to teach kids vowel sounds! I have adapted some of these for teaching vowels to online students. Young learners, especially, will benefit from these simple vowel activities. But teachers can use these vowel activities…
Fun Ways to Teach CVC words CVC words are consonant-vowel-consonant words with 3 letters: “cat” or “run” or “mop”. Teach these words to beginner ELL students readers with fun segmenting and blending activities. should be taught how to decode them.…
