English learning and teaching resources

1.) Smart kids phonics complete set (CD-ROM) :

Download links:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/qBrzzA4
http://www.fileserve.com/file/PWhASbf




2.) The pronunciation suite (CD-ROM) :

Download links:

http://www.fileserve.com/file/juSDvW7
http://www.fileserve.com/file/vgUG233

English Games

Have fun playing games and learning English at the same time.

Little Animals Activity Centre
bbc.co.uk/schools/laac
Spend time rhyming with Digby Mole, or practise your moves with Foxy Dancer. This site can be used as part of the literacy hour for reception year and years 1,2 and 3.

Magic Key
bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey
Unlock the secrets of sentence writing and work out new words with characters from 'Magic Key'. This site can be used as part of the literacy hour for reception year and year 1. 

Dokumen Standard Bahasa Inggeris

English Language Curriculum for Primary Schools (KSSR) Year 1,2 and 3

Ministry of Education Malaysia has introduced the standardised English Language Curriculum for Primary Schools (Kurikulum Standard Sekolah Rendah), which will be implemented phase by phase starting this year. The new curriculum emphasises on holistic development of the students which encompasses new elements such as grooming of creativity and innovation, entrepreneurship, and integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

Download the document for English Language here :

http://www.moe.gov.my/bpk/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=201&Itemid=83

Short stories for kids

Short stories for kids can provide them with a lot of fun and entertainment and also teach them the important values in life. Here are three famous moral short stories for kids. Creep into their world, to experience the bliss of innocence, love, adventure and many more.

http://www.kidsworldfun.com/shortstories_lionandmouse.php

The Lion and The Mouse

Once, when a lion was asleep, a little mouse began running up and down upon him. This soon  awakened the lion, who placed ......

MORAL : Little friends may prove great friends.


 http://www.kidsworldfun.com/shortstories_hareandtortoise.php

The Hare and The Tortoise

There once was a speedy hare who bragged about how fasr he could run. Tired of hearing him boast, the tortoise......

MORAL : Slow and steady wins the race.


http://www.kidsworldfun.com/shortstories_goosewithgoldeneggs.php

The Goose With The Golden Eggs

Once upon a time, a man and his wife had the good fortune to have a goose which laid a golden every day. Lucky though they were, they soon began......

MORAL : Think before you act.

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http://www.kidsworldfun.com/shortstories.php

Outdoor Activities

Outdoor activities give our children an opportunity to sing a little louder and move in a larger space.  The children will enjoy it and have lots of fun doing it!

Game : Hop In The Hoops

Materials:

Different colored hoops, an open area and drum .

Description: 

Let the children warm up in an open area.  Give the children different ideas for moving around - walk, hop, skip, run, walk sideways, run backwards and so on.  Place lots of different colored hoops around the open space. Demonstrate to the children how to walk or run around without touching the hoops.  Intersperse these instructions with 'stand in groups of two in red hoops' or  'three people go into each green hoop' and so on.

Get the children to listen to the next instruction by beat the drum or clap your hands, the children stop and listen for the next step. For example, put your hand in a hoop, put your foot in a hoop.  Make it more complex by adding colors and numbers. For example, put one knee in a red hoop, put four fingers in a yellow hoop and so on.

Hop, hop, hop!

English Language Cartoons and Comic

Learning English through cartoons and comics

Cartoons and comics are very appealing to young learner and capture their imagination.

Got a few laughs from the English Language cartoons or comics.

Holiday Activity For Children At Home

School holiday is coming soon. The children will be looking for fun and interesting things to do. Do you have any plans for activities with the children at home? The activity below is great for doing at home with the children.

Making your own playing cards

Recycling a catalogue to make your own set of playing cards. So many learning apportunities in this one from cutting and pasting to memory recall and language development.

Hickory Dickory Clock

Hickory dickory dock. The mouse went up the clock.
The clock struck one. The mouse went down.
Hickory dickory dock. 
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.

A snake!
Hickory dickory dock. The snake went up the clock.
The clock struck two. The snake went down.
Hickory dickory dock. 
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.

A squirrel!
Hickory dickory dock. The squirrel went up the clock.
The clock struck three. The squirrel went down.
Hickory dickory dock. 
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.

A cat!
Hickory dickory dock. The cat went up the clock.
The clock struck four. The cat went down.
Hickory dickory dock. 
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.

A monkey!
Hickory dickory dock. The monkey went up the clock.
The clock struck five. The monkey went down.
Hickory dickory dock. 
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.

An elephant...oh no!
Hickory dickory dock. The elephant went up the clock.
Oh no!
Hickory dickory dock. 

Song by Super Simple Learning
Animation by Franfou

Flashcards for vocabulary

http://www.eslkidslab.com/flashcards/index.html


This area is loaded with well-categorized flashcards. The cards cover familiar topics like: Food, Animals, Time, Weather, Clothes, Vegetables, Fruits, Shapes, Action Verbs, Transportation, School and Classroom objects.
The flashcards will help in teaching and practising new vocabulary. Flashcards also play a tremendous role in all language teachers' classrooms across the world.


Example :

Activity for English Lesson

Name of the activity :  

Completing Clothes Parts

Description :

Stick pictures of some clothes on the walls of classroom separately. Draw only a head of  a person on the board and ask the children to complete the picture putting them right places of the body. Then, in the same way ask them to find the names of  clothes sticking beside the right clothes.

Language focus / aims

Knesthetic activity, clothes and bady part

 

To Uphold B. Malaysia & To Strengthen The English Language

To strengthen the English Language mean to enhance the command of the language as a compulsory language to be learned, the language of communication and of  knowledge at the national and international levels.

To strengthen the English Language through:

- increasing the numbers of hours for teaching and learning of English in SK, SM, SJKC and SJKT
- English Language teachers of quality
- The teaching & learning approach
- widening the functions of computer laboratories to language lab

From : http://www.moe.gov.my/mbmmbi/

My New Face

Children prepare masks for use during perfomance.

Colour and cut out the mask.

1,2,3......action!

So funny......my new face!

Problems in learning to read

There's always difficulties when learning a new language. For my Year 1 students, almost of them cannot even read properly. Learning to read was exceptionally difficult because identical letter string often have different pronunciation and the pronunciation of words is not always following the same rules.

English Worksheets

This website contains thousands of printables for teachers and it's all free. I always visit this website to print out the worksheets for my students.
 http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/full-phonics.html