Hello again! Today I’m going to introduce you to an amazing website of resources, for me one of the best and the one that I use most for the English classes I am doing at the moment.

That website is Twinkl an English website where you can find lots of activities, games and resource packs for almost everything you can think about when you are teaching English. It’s based on the English curriculum so you can find it divided into the English stages.

The only bad thing about it is that if you want to download everything you find there you have to pay but, in my opinion, it is worthy. 

Obviously, as I have said for me Twinkl is in the first place but I want to introduce you also to another interesting website, Tools for educators. In this webpage you don’t have all the resources done like in Twinkl but you have a lot of templates to design it by yourself.

I found it interesting because you can create lots of sheets like, reading worksheets, printable games or hand-outs. You have it without anything and then you can put the vocabulary you want to use and the website gives you the image also for this words. 

Hello again! After a couple of weeks with some lessons cancelled and two different teachers in class I can write again some things that we had been taught about storytelling.

We had some examples about the advantages of working with it in class like:

• Giving motivation to pupils and engage them.
• Teaching pronunciation.
• Providing the chance to connect English with other subjects.
• Making the children work together.

We were introduced also to some books like Are you my mother? Or The great pet sale. With that examples we were able to see that repetition is really important in these stories and also the fact of having some rhythm.

I think that it’s a really useful subject to talk about because storytelling works very well with children and it makes them love reading so that increasing the curiosity about reading. Also, there are lots of resources to work with it and it’s easy to create lots of them by ourselves or with children in class. 

From that session then I had the idea of creating a tile in my Symbaloo related to storytelling. This tile will lead to a document where I am going to put the books I find interesting to read for children, in the document I will include the title of the book an image and a website with further information. I had the idea of calling that document the reading corner because it’s going to be like my personal virtual library.