How do I teach new vocabulary to my English students

En una publicación anterior les presenté mi proyecto educativo llamado Happy Learning Kids el cual tiene como objetivo principal crear material didáctico digital para la enseñanza del idioma Inglés a niños.
En esta publicación les quiero contar cómo elaboro este tipo de materiales y como trabajo mis clases con los niños.

Hello, hello fellow educators and parents.

In a previous post I presented you my educational project called Happy Learning Kids which has as its main objective to create digital didactic material for teaching English to children.
In this post I want to tell you how I elaborate this kind of materials and how I work my classes with the children.

The first thing I do is choose a topic that is attractive to the children and start developing the material. There are many options and alternatives available on the web, however, I wanted to design my own material. It is a time consuming process, but honestly, it is a lot of fun and relaxing. Even though what I am making are very basic and simple things, it fills me with excitement to work with materials I created myself.

Well, for this publication I chose the theme of farm animals. The theme of animals always captures the kids' attention, that's why I always include this theme in my first class sessions.

Once the theme is selected, I work on the Canva.com platform to choose the images I'm going to use for my resources. I love to select very cute and eye-catching images. With these images I make some flash cards that I use to work on vocabulary. I also use these flash cards to upload them to the Educaplay platform and use them to create different interactive activities. These two platforms are my two great allies in this project.

In addition to the flash cards I also make a vocabulary sheet in which I put all the images and their names in English. With this sheet we do pronunciation and writing exercises.

In the same way, I write some sentences that will allow me to show the students how to use the vocabulary they are learning in phrases and sentences and not just in isolation. For more advanced students I use some short texts on the same topic. Each activity is adapted to the level of the student.

In order to reinforce the content during class, we work with interactive activities on the Educaplay platform, which allows us to upload our own images and audios. I usually use the same images from the flash cards to create the activities. In Educaplay you can create word searches, crossword puzzles, memories, text completion activities, among many other activities.

In order for you to practice vocabulary at home, I am providing a pdf with some printable activities to work on for reinforcement. These printables are usually word searches, vocabulary coloring sheets and memory games to cut out and play. To create these printables I use some canva templates that allow you to modify them according to each topic.

The newest thing I am doing is creating videos with the vocabulary of each topic and putting the audio so you can watch them and practice the pronunciation. I am sharing these videos on my Instagram and Tiktok user, there you can download them and they are free to use.

I hope all this information will be of benefit to you. Thanks for reading, greetings and blessings.

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