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Giant results from small children: ESL resources for 3 to 5 (6) year olds

Preschool. Are you that special kind of teacher who can deal with eager, energetic and very active preschoolers? Or are you daunted by the prospect of managing formative children? Or have you just simply run out of ideas? Look no further. Shelley’s Games, Stories, Songs, Movies and Worksheets are the perfect answer to the challenge of teaching preschoolers, and research proves that young children learn quicker, recall faster and understand better with an active physical response and natural learning methods.

  • The ESL resources comply with the curriculum for European Language Certificate (and international equivalents)
  • Save time and money as you have everything you need for lessons
  • Reinforce learning and brighten up your classroom with music with songs to match stories
  • Ensure continuity of vocabulary progression AND a full years’ comprehensive resource
  • Cater for children of different abilities
  • Encourage children to express themselves and communicate in a fun and productive way
  • The ESL resources comply with the curriculum for European Language Certificate (and international equivalents)
  • Save time and money as you have everything you need for lessons
  • Reinforce learning and brighten up your classroom with music with songs to match stories
  • Ensure continuity of vocabulary progression AND a full years’ comprehensive resource
  • Cater for children of different abilities
  • Encourage children to express themselves and communicate in a fun and productive way

Shelley’s Personal Message and ESL resources

I have seen parents and teachers ruin a young child’s enthusiasm for learning English by having unrealistic expectations, by nit-picking over pronunciation and by going about teaching the wrong way.  The child becomes discouraged, and from that point on, English is  a difficult and boring topic.  Avoid this trap by using fun resources and being positive.  I’m here to help you if you need me.  Just drop me a line via the contact page – I answer every single message.

Here is a complete portfolio of resources that will surely engage your preschoolers, focus their attention and fire their enthusiasm for your lessons.

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Use games in a lesson to help to create positivity, motivate students with their participation and create a positive attitude towards learning.

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Get your children to know sounds, words and language, through our collection of stories complete with lesson plans, illustrations, and flashcards.

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Read the teaching toddlers report, compiled from interviews with 250 teachers and packed with great ideas that work.

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Build confidence in your young learners through songs and promote language, creativity, coordination; even shy children will enjoy singing!

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Engage preschoolers and capture their attention with our teaching kit slideshow movies with audio from native speakers and animation.

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Use our workbooks with the teaching kits for individual or group work and record your children’s progress (and give them a souvenir of their work!).

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ESL Games for Preschool

Over 100 exhilarating games for different group sizes and situations at kindergarten

ESL Games for Preschool provides a concise method to teach 3-6-year-olds to speak English.
Be a fun and effective teacher, never stuck for an idea, with these adaptable games for preschoolers.

green tick Over 100 games with a recommended category, group size, level (easy/ flexible) and pace (wake up, excitable or calm)

green tick 8 rhymes and fingerplays (e.g. Two Little Blackbirds)

green tick 10 kindergarten activities to go with songs (e.g. London Bridge is Falling Down)

green tick Games themed for vocabulary to stimulate speaking and listening

green tick Rapid game selection to suit any occasion in the detailed index with a four-step guide

green tick Invaluable tips and advice on managing lively preschool children at kindergarten

green tick An introduction packed handy tips on dealing with getting started, cultural differences, misbehaviour, materials, language and grammar, and getting the best out of kindergarten and preschool children

green tick Bonus! Includes a chapter on teaching toddlers

Motivate your pupils, help them learn effectively and ensure you and your pupils enjoy your lessons more

How wonderful to have short activities ready prepared, to throw in at a moments notice, when the children's attention span starts to dwindle. I have so much more confidence in my teaching abilities now, especially when I see the children learning and enthusiastic!
Kathryn WilliamsUSA
I would like to congratulate you for the wonderful materials that you have created which I am enjoying very much. Our classes are now very animated and I can see how the children look forward to the next lesson.
Olga DíazSpain
I am writing to express my gratitude for your remarkable resources. They have become part and parcel of my work because my students always want more and more fun
Tatyana PotapovaIzmaylovskaya gymnasium Language School, Moscow
I have been amazed and delighted by the results. The children absolutely love the games, the songs and the stories. I have had a lot of fun with them this year and great satisfaction... I can't recommend your work enough or compliment you sufficiently for your materials. In fact, I have got so much confidence and pleasure from my year teaching young children.
Alison SalmonTuscany, Italy.
I had my first class this morning and it went really, really well! The kids didn't answer me but they played all the games perfectly, loved the song and the story. I think I can say the lesson was a hit as they didn't want to leave!!
Carrie Harvey (carrieharvey.com)Dax, France

What can you expect from ESL Games for Preschool?

  • Rapid progress across all levels
  • More control in the group or classroom
  • Improved cooperation with other children
  • Improved teacher-child relationship
  • Increased children’s attention span and listening skills
  • Stimulated children’s imagination and understanding of the world

  • Development of the language ability and an appreciation of literature

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Teaching Toddlers English (ESL, EFL)

This report 33-page report is dedicated to teaching two-year-olds, but all the ideas also work with three to five-year-olds. Toddlers don’t like to be organised into games, so you need a different just as varied approach. This report tells you what to do and how to do it. It is so motivating to read all the ideas that it makes you want to get into a classroom right away and try the fun activities immediately!

ESL Teaching Kits for Preschool and Kindergarten

Teaching kits complete with 10 original stories in riveting narrative with vibrant illustrations

In the simple present tense, the stories teaching kits introduce vocabulary for greetings, animals, numbers, colours, food and drink, nature and action verbs, and more! The stories are progressive, building on vocabulary previously learned, with revision cleverly mingled in new themes with extra vocabulary in each story for children more advanced in understanding English.

The ESL Teaching Kits include…

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Vocabulary introduced in simple, but fun plots to keep youngsters spellbound

Additional vocabulary for children with two or more years of English

Comprehensive supporting resources so minimum preparation is required

Pre-, mid- and post-story activity ideas and games

Colour vocabulary and picture flashcards

A PowerPoint animated movie for each story

Printable bingo cards

Receive a free sample on my “kinder” list here

Taking the hard work out of preparing lessons! It's great to have this material for little ones as although I've done a lot of research on the web, I couldn't find anything so well set out as your lessons. I am teaching children from 3 to 10 yrs old near Treviso, Italy and I must say that this material is taking a lot of the hard work out of preparing lessons!
Anne ChambersTreviso, Italy
What took days now takes an hour! What took me days to figure out piling over internet sites and going to the library now takes me an hour with Shelley's program and you can quote me on that! This incredible gift of pure knowledge and ideas, has saved me! Thank you, so very tremendously, for your stories, activities and ideas for keeping this very active age of 3-5 year olds engaged. I see the looks on the parents’ faces and the children are opening up more and more each class. You make me look so good!
Kathryn WilliamsUSA
They memorized all the lines and remembered them weeks later! I have taught the first 3 stories already and the children loved it. They loved it so much that they memorised all the lines. I did not ask them to memorise the lines, it was their idea and you know how hard it is to make a little kid memorise the lines you want him to. I really like the way you make the sentences for the stories, in form of patterns. It is the best way for the international students to learn English. And the students not only memorised the patterns but they remembered them well even weeks later.
Mihaela Coclea,Yantai, China

Complement your ESL Teaching Kits

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Captivate your young learners with worksheets and funbooks adapted for preschoolers that revise the vocabulary in the Teaching Kits 1, 2 and 3.

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Children love singing and it is one of the best ways for them to learn English, remember it, and love doing so. You can be sure to have more fun in class.

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ESL Teaching English Songs

For beginners: with games and actions for every song!

Children learn English with a lot of repetition.  Songs are absolutely ideal for language learning as children love them and will want to hear them over and over again – perfect for vocabulary acquisition and language learning. Our compelling and addictive songs match the vocabulary in the teaching kit stories 1, 2 and  3. Available in  CD and MP3 formats complete with audio, video, masks and activities.

ESL PowerPoint animated movies

Use movies to make learning fun!

These PowerPoint animated movies are the Teaching Kits 1, 2 & 3 stories with audio from native speakers and basic animation to captivate your young learners. Use these story movies alone or as part of the complete curriculum for young children learning English along with the games, lesson plans, flashcards and songs.

ESL Worksheets and Funbooks

All colour worksheets to revise all the vocabulary from the Teaching Kits 1, 2 and 3

  49 worksheets for Teaching Kit 1

66 worksheets for Teaching Kit 2

63 worksheets for Teaching Kit for Special Days

Labyrinths and join the dots exercises

Counting exercises

Puzzle exercises

Colouring and drawing exercises

Tracing over letters and filling in words

Trace over the letters of the alphabet

  49 worksheets for Teaching Kit 1

66 worksheets for Teaching Kit 2

63 worksheets for Teaching Kit for Special Days

Labyrinths and join the dots exercises

Counting exercises

Colouring and drawing exercises

Tracing over letters and filling in words

Tracing over the letters of the alphabet

Puzzle exercises

Teaching Toddlers English ESL and EFL

Teaching English to toddlers is as easy as 1-2-3 !!

This rare compilation is beautifully structured and organised to give you the best approach to start a second or foreign language with your child.

Whether you are a nursery or kindergarten teacher or a parent looking to introduce English at home, here you will find tried and tested successful methods and ideas that actually work contributed by over 250 English teachers worldwide. They are all collected in one book and given the Shelley Ann Vernon touch. That means advice on getting started, what makes Toddlers tick, and understanding the differences in child development at this age and how to encourage without pressure. Plenty of material, so you will never be lost for an idea, and plenty of choices to keep your two-year-old children stimulated and coming back for more; be amazed.

Read the blog for great teaching tips!

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How 4-6-year-old children can learn and develop
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It is quite a challenge for a small child to start nursery school. Here, discover Shelley’s valuable tips for teaching preschoolers and getting great results.

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The perfect English lessons for toddlers and why it failed
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A well-thought-out, varied and thoroughly planned lesson can still fail. Find out how to teach toddlers English successfully with very little preparation time.

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Tips on using songs at preschool and how to do so successfully
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Explore the incredible benefits of using songs as a part of ESL teaching. Read on for insight and prepare to be motivated to use music with your ESL students!

Prefer Paperbacks?

Please see Shelley Ann Vernon’s Amazon author page for all her preschool games and stories paperbacks.

If you think that Bezos is rich enough, you can always get the download version from me!

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