Simple Present Tense Reading Comprehension for Young Learners

I'm excited to share with you a set of reading comprehension texts and worksheets that I designed to make English grammar classes more enjoyable for my young students. As a language teacher, I know how learning grammar can be a bit boring for kids, so I created this series of printable resources to keep them engaged and motivated.

Reading Comprehension for Preschoolers (Free PDF)

Hey fellow English teachers! I've designed a set of printable reading comprehension worksheets for preschoolers and early school students. These worksheets are available for free, and you can easily download them as PDF files through the provided links below. I hope these printables will help you make English classes even more enjoyable and effective for kids.

This collection includes three short reading comprehension passages, accompanied by tasks that incorporate plenty of pictures. Each passage is designed to be easily readable for young learners, allowing them to develop their reading skills while engaging with the content.

Silent Letters in English - Charts with Words and Pictures

Silent letters are a very interesting phenomenon in English language. I teach English to non-native speaking kids whose native language does not have letters that are not pronounced. Therefore all too often my young students find it very weird that they need not read certain letters in English words. They struggle really hard to get accustomed to these unusual and confusing spelling rules. So I decided to pay special attention to silent letters in English when I was designing my printable poster-sized phonics charts. I’ve created multiple charts featuring words with silent letters or letter combinations along with relevant pictures in order to make those charts child-appealing. The charts feature nouns that can be easily illustrated.

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I’m sure there are multiple languages in the world that do not have such thing as silent letters (e.g. Spanish and many Slavic languages). I hope my printable charts will help my fellow EFL and ESL teachers introduce silent letters in a visually appealing way to novice English learners speaking these languages.

A printable chart listing English words with silent letters a, b, c, d.

Big Printable Alphabet Letters (F to J)

Here are a few more large printable English alphabet letters that I designed to teach English to elementary school kids. My fellow English teachers are welcome to use these printable letters for their classes too. Unfortunately, this blog platform does not allow uploading of my ABC images in their original size. If you need high resolution images for extra quality printing on paper sheets of A4 or A3 format, you are welcome to buy the entire set of big ABC letters in printer-ready PDF files. Please, click the link below to make a purchase.

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Printable Awards for Learning Alphabet

I have designed some printable awards that I hand out to my pre-school and elementary school students to encourage those kids to learn the English alphabet letters.

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Unlike many printable awards English teachers can find online, my ABC awards can be given to students for each alphabet letter they learn. I have created an individual award for each letter of the English alphabet that a kid learns.

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Clothes and Accessories Dominoes. Part 2.

This is the second and the last blog post sharing my printable clothes and accessories domino cards that I designed to use for my English classes in order to help students better memorize more than 60 names of clothing items and some fashion accessories such as a handbag, a backpack, a purse and a wallet as well as a couple of jewelry items such as a necklace and earrings. The domino game also includes some cards with British English variations. 

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The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

The clothes and accessories dominoes are better used with other printable handouts that make part of the large ESL kit which, besides the dominoes, also includes vocabulary matching worksheets, word search and crossword puzzles, a collection of colorful flashcards and a bingo game.

Phonics Flashcards (R-Controlled Vowels)

Today I would like to share the set of the R-controlled Vowel Sounds Flashcards.

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The set consists of 20 flashcards. Cards №№ 133-136 present words in which the letter a followed by the letter r makes the sound [a:]. Card № 137 presents words where the letters o and r give [ɔː]. Cards №№ 138-140 present the sound [ɜː] made by the phonograms ir, ur, er.

Cards №№ 141-145 include phonograms -er, -or, -ur which produce the schwa sound [ə]. It should be noted that the card №143 gives the words with the British spelling of the phonogram -our like in colour, favour; the card №145 gives the same words with the American spelling -or like in color, favor.

Cards №№146-148 display such phonograms as -eer, -ear, -ere which make the sound [ɪə]. Card № 149 contains the words where the phonogram -ir meets one more vowel resulting in the sound [aɪə] like in fire, iron. Cards №№ 150-151 demonstrate the phonograms -our, -ower that give the sound [auə]. Card № 152 shows cases where the phonogram -ur meets one more vowel making the sound [juːə] like in cure, during.

Phonics Flashcards: r-controlled vowel sounds

Phonics Flashcards (Long U Vowel)

Today I would like to share the last set of long vowel sound phonics flashcards series .
This set consists of cards with the long sound u.

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Cards №№ 117-120 contain phonograms u, ui, ie, eau, ue, ew which give the long vowel sound [juː].
Cards №№ 121-128 present phonograms oo, o, u, ew, ue, ou, oe, ui which give the sound [uː]

Phonics flashcard: long u sound

Phonics Flashcards (Long O Vowel)

Today I would like to share some new cards from my long sound phonics flashcards series.
This post is dedicated to the long sound [ɔʊ].

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Cards №№ 109-111 present the words where the letter Oo gives the long sound [ɔʊ].
Cards №№ 112-116 include such phonograms as: ow, oa, ou, oe, old.

Phonics flashcard: long o sound

Phonics Flashcards (Long I Vowel)

I continue sharing with you my long sound phonics flashcards and today my post is dedicated to the long sound [ai]. This set consists of 16 cards.

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Cards №№ 93-101 include such phonograms as: -ice, -ide, -ike, -ime, -ine, -ive, -ild, -ind, -igh-. Cards №№ 102-104 present the words where the letter Ii gives this sound, while cards №№ 105-106 show the same sound in the words with the letter Yy. Cards 107-108 present such phonograms as ie, ui.

Phonics flashcard: long i [ai] sound

Snowflakes Song for Kids

It's winter now and we have a wonderful opportunity to teach our children some winter vocabulary. One of the most fascinating things about winter is, of course, snow and those tiny beautiful snowflakes falling softly from the sky. So I would like to share my Snowflakes Song with fellow teachers and parents. This song is very simple and can be used for preschool and kindergarten children from 3 to 6 years old.

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Here are the Snowflakes Song lyrics

Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Falling, falling, falling, falling to the ground.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Flying, flying, flying, flying all around.

Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Dance in the air.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Everywhere.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Fly around.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Touch the ground.

Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Falling, falling, falling, falling to the ground.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Flying, flying, flying, flying all around.

See also:
Arctic Animals Song for Children
I'm a Happy Snowman - Winter Song for Children
Winter Song about Merry Frosty Days

Dinosaur Song for Preschool Kids

The dinosaur song is our new family project. I have written this song to make my English lesson with preschoolers more interesting and engaging. The mysterious world of dinosaurs is always fascinating for kids! It is fun to have an imaginary travel with children to prehistoric times when those huge and awesome creatures populated the Earth. Children can learn many things about our planet, nature and animals. So let’s get our time machine together and visit a cute stegosaurus family that lived during the Jurassic period some 150 millions years ago.

This song is very simple and perfectly adapted for young English learners from 2 to 5 years old. Our son who is 3,5 years old is very fond of dinosaurs and he loved this song very much. That’s why we decided to perform it together. I think making such family project encourages kids to learn more about our world and to master the language with the help of music, singing and dramatizing interesting stories.

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The animation was created by my husband. Our family friend – artist Igor Lukyanov – helped us create some cute illustrations of the main characters for this song video.

Here are the Dinosaur Song lyrics: