young learners

Engaging in dialogue during reading time
We often think of reading as a solitary, silent activity, but it can also be a noisy pair or group event which keeps students busy.
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Build vocabulary with young learners: tips and resources
The building blocks of our language are words: words that children love learning.
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Setting up projects for young learners
Setting up creative projects for young learners is an essential part of all language teaching at primary school.
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Play and learn: Online games for picture books
Online games are great extensions to your online or classroom-based English lessons.
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24 Days of Goodness: The Helbling Young Learners Advent Reading Calendar
When you say advent and advent calendar, what’s the first thing that comes to your students’ minds?
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A love of libraries: library activities for young learners
There are lots of exciting ways to end the school term or start a holiday course. One of them is taking young learners to your local or school library.
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Using online games with young learners
As teachers, we have all used games, be they online or not, to engage and motivate our teen, adult or young learners.
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Four new titles in The Thinking Train series
We have added a brand new level F to our award-winning picture book series for young learners.
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Promoting learner autonomy in young learners
Learning to be responsible for their own learning is an indispensable skill for all language learners no matter how old they are.
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Moon Landing 50: Moony goes on holiday
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. In a previous post we have collected resources for you to learn more about the Moon landing and lots of stories to inspire CLIL and cultural
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Arts & crafts projects for sunny and rainy days
We often need playful activities to keep the language your children learnt during the school term alive and help them use the words they have learnt in various contexts.
In our series of reade
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Five stories about fantasy in The Thinking Train series
We never seem to tire of fairy tales, fantasy novels and science fiction. From early childhood, these stories enchant their readers and fire their imagination.
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