Go wild with our new lesson on African Animals!

In this eight-page Word Bank lesson, students will learn the spelling and pronunciation of their favorite African animals. They will practice this vocabulary through several fun, colorful activities, including a picture dictionary, matchup, word choice, word search, word scramble, and spelling bee. This lesson finishes up with discussion questions so that your students can practice using the vocab in context. These activities are suitable for individual, pair, group, or class work—the choice is yours! (more…)

Sprout’s Phonics Cafe section offers many lessons to help improve low-level English learners’ printing, writing, spelling, and pronunciation. This section starts with the alphabet and works up to letter combinations and words that are difficult to pronounce and spell. This week’s Spotlight lesson is on the letters G to L. Your students will love the colorful illustrations and engaging activities! (more…)

The English language has many modals—words that come before verbs and provide extra meaning such as ability, necessity, possibility, etc. The modals of ability, can and could, are useful for students to learn early on. We’ve created a new Modals of Ability lesson that centers around a common theme: hobbies and leisure activities! (more…)

What do your young learners like to do in their free time? Our NEW Hobbies lesson introduces students to vocabulary they can use to describe common hobbies and leisure activities. (more…)

In this week’s Spotlight lesson, Riding on the Train, students get a chance to see the present progressive in context when a young Korean girl describes what her family is doing on the train ride home. (more…)

Have you seen the Canada Day and Independence Day vocabulary lessons in our Word Bank section? Canada Day is a federal holiday celebrated on July 1 that commemorates the signing of the Constitution Act on July 1, 1867. Independence Day, also known as the Fourth of July or July Fourth, is a federal holiday that commemorates the July 4, 1776, adoption of the Declaration of Independence. If you live in, teach in, or hail from Canada or the US, your students will be interested in these festive lessons! (more…)

Grammar and phonics are combined in our Spotlight lesson this week. Our This Is / That Is lesson is a great review of many sounds and spelling in English, such as A to F, M to R, L & R, ‘th’ words, silent ‘e’ words, and three-letter words. (more…)

Do your students all have their own cell phones? If they don’t, they probably wish they did! Mobile phones are so prevalent in our culture these days, so our Mobile Phone – Reading Lesson will be relevant and fun for your young English learners.
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Do your young English language learners struggle with we vs. us? How about I and me? Remembering when to use subject and object pronouns can be challenging. Our NEW grammar lesson, Subject & Object Pronouns, makes it much easier! Students will also love the Family theme. (more…)

Everyone needs to know how to talk about the weather. In the NEW Weather & Seasons lesson in our Word Bank section, we introduce young learners to vocabulary they can use to describe all kinds of weather. They’ll also learn about the four seasons!

In this English lesson, we were sure to include as many of the variations that students will encounter as possible. For example, we include both noun forms of the seasons (e.g., summer / summertime). We also mention the different parts of speech that weather words can take (e.g., I don’t like the rain; It’s a rainy day; It’s raining). (more…)