The 2015 Major League Baseball season runs from April 5 to October 4 in the US. Our Spotlight lesson, Baseball: Simple Present Reading, introduces young learners to a boy who loves playing baseball.
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See our updated worksheet for 2016: http://blog.sproutenglish.com/spring-find-the-objects-2/

Find our updated Easter vocabulary lesson for 2017 here: http://bit.ly/VocabEaster

We are adding to the Transportation & Housing section of our Word Bank section this week with our new, beautifully illustrated lesson on The Kitchen!

The Kitchen vocabulary lesson includes a colorful picture dictionary, matchup, word choice, word search, word scramble, and spelling bee. Students can also practice the new vocabulary in context with questions that you can use for discussion or writing. (more…)

Find our updated Spotlight lesson for 2016 here: http://blog.sproutenglish.com/st-patricks-day-materials/

Students of all levels and ages need some basic vocabulary to describe where they live. Our new Word Bank lesson, My House, is the perfect place to start!

The My House lesson includes a colorful picture dictionary, matchup, word choice, word search, word scramble, and spelling bee. Your learners will learn if swing set, flower box, front yard, and backyard are one or two words. (more…)

Please see our updated post for Feb 14, 2016: Valentine’s Day Collection.

Are you a chocoloholic? Chocolate is now for sale in many stores in countries that celebrate Valentine’s Day. Your young learners will enjoy learning about where chocolate comes from and how hot chocolate became a popular drink!

Our Chocolate lesson in the Discovery Center includes discussion questions, pre-reading vocabulary, a short reading full of interesting facts, and comprehension questions. There are also engaging vocabulary review tasks in the form of a crossword puzzle, a word search, and a word maze!

Our Discovery Center has other fun food lessons too. We have lessons on cheese, ice cream, pizza, popcorn, and food allergies.

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Please see our updated 2015 post here: http://blog.sproutenglish.com/christmas-vocabulary-lesson-3/

Are your little English learners crazy about the movie Frozen? If you teach children or have children, the hit song Do you want to build a snowman? is probably stuck in your head. We’re having some fun with Christmas puzzles and games this week on Sprout English. Here’s a fun way to turn your students’ obsession with Frozen into a vocabulary game!

1. Tell your students they are going to pretend to be elves. The elves are going to build some toys. (more…)