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.

Homophones Worksheets and Posters

As an English teacher, I am always looking for ways to help my students expand their vocabulary and improve their language skills. One way I have found to be particularly effective is teaching homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, such as "write" and "right", "son" and "sun", or "I" and "eye". Learning homophones can expand students' vocabulary and improve their spelling and grammar skills.

Printable Animal Alphabet

Here is another printable English ABC that I have recently designed to decorate my classroom. I really love this one as it incorporates beautiful pictures of some adorable animals that look like watercolor artworks. I’m sure my elementary students will enjoy seeing the alphabet featuring their favorite creatures and thus they will better memorize letters and improve their letter recognition skills.

City Vocabulary Posters

According to my classroom calendar, there will be the World Tourist Day on September 27. It’ll be a great occasion to learn some relevant vocabulary. So displaying my printable city vocabulary posters would be a good idea for this day. They would help students discuss what they can see when traveling to different cities.

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Printable Calendar for Classroom

I have designed a printable calendar for my classroom which will help me plan my curriculum for the entire school year. It’s a monthly calendar with holidays and all kinds of celebrations that can be fun to learn about, discuss and incorporate into lessons. Since I teach mostly American English, the calendar features American holidays and celebrations. This is why there are American flags on the calendar as seen below.

I've designed a printable monthly calendar featuring American holidays and celebrations for my English classroom.

Irregular Verb Charts - Printable Posters

Irregular verbs are one of the most challenging aspects of English grammar for non-native speakers and especially for kids. There are a lot of irregular verbs along with their confusing forms in English which makes it impossible for young students to memorize them quickly and easily. When I was at school I had to learn lists of irregular verbs and their past simple and past participle forms by heart. But it was hard to hold them in my memory for a long time anyway. It was a boring and painful experience. Now, being an English teacher, I ask myself what I can do to help kids memorize common irregular verbs without turning the process into a torture for their brains. And as you know, my go-to method of teaching English vocabulary to children is visualizing things. You might have already seen my irregular verb flashcards and puzzles. And recently I decided to design printable irregular verb charts in the form of posters incorporating pictures to visualize 100 verbs.

One of five printable charts listing common irregular verbs and incorporating pictures to help students better memorize the verbs.

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Recommended printing formats: A3 paper size (297 x 420 mm; 11.7 x 16.5 inches) or A1 paper size (594 x 841 mm; 23.39 x 33.11 inches).

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Vocabulary Posters for 20 Topics

My printable posters for each ABC letter proved to be popular with my young students, so I decided to also design English vocabulary posters to put on my classroom walls.

A vocabulary posters printed on a large A1 paper sheet (594 x 841 mm, 23.4 x 33.1 inches).

170+ English Phonics Worksheets

English language is notorious for its weird phonetics. All too often learning how to spell English words can be frustrating for non-native speakers. Being an EFL teacher working with elementary and middle school kids, I learned it the hard way. Many of my young students used to get bored or frustrated with all this crazy phonics stuff. Indeed, it seems that there are as many exceptions as there are rules in English phonetics. Even adult students find their heads spinning when they learn that words floor, flood, food are pronounced differently. There are plenty of such cases when the same letter or combination of letters form different sounds and often inexplicably. It can pretty much confuse kids who are just starting to learning English in non-English speaking countries. It is also a big challenge for EFL and ESL teachers because they have to add as much fun to their lessons as possible to make kids fall in love with learning English from the very beginning. Unfortunately, there is not too much fun in learning baffling English phonics rules and numerous exceptions. Therefore I have designed another collection of printable phonics worksheets to help my young students learn how to correctly write and pronounce a lot of tricky English words. These worksheets are designed to make English phonetics less boring and intimidating. The worksheets are also great for memorizing such words and thus strengthening students' vocabulary thanks to many colorful pictures that I used to design these teaching printables.

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I offer my students the phonics worksheets after I introduce and discuss the key phonics rules including how to pronounce English diphthongs, digraphs, blends etc. I use my printable sound charts and phonics posters for the introduction.

The collection includes more than 170 printable phonics worksheets that offer mostly matching activities. There is a set of worksheets that help my students memorize symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The IPA is very important for non-native English learners as major dictionaries use the IPA for transcription of words. The IPA phonetic transcription is frequently the only way EFL students can learn the right way to pronounce this or another English word.

Matching Worksheets

My phonics worksheets offer two types of matching tasks: 

• matching API symbols to words; 
• matching words having the same sound. 

One of phonics worksheets offering students to match vowel sounds in words to corresponding IPA symbols.

Parts of the Body - Printable Board Game

We have designed another printable board game to help our young students learn English vocabulary through a fun activity. This one is designed to learn and properly memorize English names of parts of the human body.

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This printable dice game features 36 human body parts images and word cards. The vocabulary to be learned includes the following words: arm, back, belly, buttocks, calf, cheek, chest, chin, ear, elbow, eye, eyebrow, eyelash, face, finger, fingernail, foot, forehead, hair, hand, head, heel, knee, leg, lip, mouth, neck, nose, palm, shoulder, throat, thumb, toe, tongue, tooth, wrist.

The printable board game helps students learn 36 names of human body parts in English. You can find the game rules below.

Irregular Verbs Game

I remember the days when I was studying English irregular verbs at school. It was… well… boring to say the least. The concept of irregular verbs sounds weird to non-native speakers. All those irregular verbs lists and tables that many textbooks and dictionaries offer look intimidating to school kids. No wonder children have a hard time memorizing these verbs and their forms. Many grammar exercises designed to teach kids how to use irregular verbs do not boost young students’ memory either. Because all too often they are as boring as the long lists and tables in the textbooks. So I decided to add a little bit of fun into learning irregular verbs by offering my young students a printable board game. This irregular verbs game makes it easier for kids to memorize these special words and their forms thanks to lots of visually-appealing pictures and competitiveness of a game.

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I have designed three printable game boards with some variations for kids to better memorize irregular verbs through a fun and visually enhanced activity. In my opinion, gamification is one of the best teaching methods to boost kids’ memory. This board game helps students memorize more than 80 English irregular verbs. Here are pictures of one of the game boards and its variations.

Printable Worksheets to Learn Animals Vocabulary

I spent a couple of months to create my currently biggest kit of printable worksheets, flashcards and games dedicated to one of the major topics ESL teachers introduce to kids starting from the kindergarten age. The topic is animals.

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I have already published my songs about animals (such as Arctic Animals Song, Forest Animals Song, and Sea Animals Song) along with some printable worksheets, clip arts and other teaching materials. A lot of my printables such as letter tracing worksheets and coloring pages feature animals. It is never enough animals when teaching English to kids. There are so many children’s books, songs, movies and other entertainment and educational stuff featuring animals that those creatures became the number one topic whenever an educator wants to teach kids something. And young students truly love animals. Who doesn’t really? Animals are fun! If you want a kid to memorize something for as long as possible, make sure to involve a cute and fluffy creature into the learning process. Use pictures of animals, books and songs about them, animal puppets or even bring a small pet to the classroom. Lots of positive emotions and thus enhanced memory are guaranteed whenever animals are involved for educating kids.

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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Food & Drinks Worksheets: Word to Picture Matching

With this blog post I’m starting a series of publications featuring my collection of printable ESL worksheets, flashcards and games designed to introduce and consolidate the food & drinks vocabulary.

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The food and drinks topic is among the key subjects in my English syllabus. Knowing names of food and drinks is a must for every English learner. As a rule, one learns English to be able to communicate with people and travel all over the world with as little language barrier as possible. Food is the essential one have to take care of whenever one goes. Trying local foods is one of the most pleasant moments of any trip. And we often welcome foreign guests with food and drinks, so we have to be able to offer them a treat in the language they understand, and English proves to be the language understood by more than 1.5 billion people. Therefore if one knows some English food & drinks vocabulary, chances are he or she will enjoy partaking of a meal in a good company of friendly foreigners. Sharing food together is a good way to make new friends and business partners.

I’ll be publishing some of my printable food and drinks worksheets, games and flashcards in the upcoming posts. The entire collection constitutes the food & drinks kit that includes 14 picture-to-word matching worksheets (4 for British English vocabulary), 13 word-to-picture matching worksheets (4 for British English vocabulary), 7 word search puzzles (1 for British English vocabulary), 8 crossword puzzles (1 for British English vocabulary), 15 bingo cards, 64 domino cards (with some British English variations), 63 flashcards (with some British English variations).

The food and drinks vocabulary covered in my printable kit

Fruits and Vegetables Bingo Game

Playing games is the happiest pastime for every kid. That’s why I use games for my English classes to consolidate the vocabulary at the final stage of learning a topic. Bingo is one of my students’ favorite games. The game makes them very excited about the chance of being a winner. This excitement generates the thrill of competition and lots of emotions. People tend to better remember things that involve emotions. No doubt, such games help English learners retain the vocabulary in their memories for a very long time if not forever. If you are teaching English names of fruits, vegetables, berries and nuts then you are going to love my printable fruits & vegetables bingo game.

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I publish only five bingo cards here. The whole fruits and vegetables kit has different types of printable fruits and vegetables worksheets, flashcards, domino cards and 15 bingo cards that can be used with larger groups of students.

Fruits and Vegetables Flashcards. Part 1.

Flashcards are a traditional ingredient of many of my English classes. Especially when it comes to introducing the new vocabulary to kids. I’m starting to share my collection of printable fruits and vegetables flashcards I use to help kids learn some 50 names of vegetables, fruits, berries and nuts. The first blog post dedicated to these flashcards offers 10 cards for my fellow English teachers to introduce the following vocabulary: almond, apple, apricot, avocado, banana, beans, beet (UK: beetroot), blueberry, broccoli, cabbage.

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ESL and EFL teachers can use these flashcards with my printable worksheets and games that constitute the fruits & vegetables kit.

Fruits and Vegetables Word Search Puzzles

Word search puzzles help English teachers get the vocabulary into students’ memories. I have created a few printable worksheets featuring word search puzzles designed to learn some 50 names of fruits, vegetables, berries and nuts. You can find the full list of words students can learn on the topic with the help of my worksheets here.

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When students are trying to match pictures of fruits and vegetables with the hidden words in word search puzzles, they train their spelling, learn to recognize words and develop concentration skills. I do my best to design colorful word search puzzle for every major topic we learn in the classroom. My students love such challenging activities. And I love them too as, being challenging, such puzzles are conducive to memory retention.

The fruits & vegetables word search puzzle for words lime, apple, pomegranate, pineapple, avocado, grapefruit, pear, kiwi, peach,orange.

Clothes and Accessories Crossword Puzzles

I often include crosswords into my lesson plans as this kind of activity helps students not only memorize the vocabulary but also learn spelling of important words in a fun way. Learning to spell words would have been boring without crossword puzzles. Therefore printable crossword worksheets have become an important ingredient of the syllabus I use to teach English to kids. Today, I’d like to share some printable crossword puzzles I offer to my students when learning the clothes and accessories vocabulary.

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ESL / EFL teachers are welcome to use my clothes and accessories crosswords for their English classes. They can also choose to buy a premium printer-optimized kit in the form of hi-res PDF documents containing several types of printable worksheets, flashcards and games. The clothes and accessories kit also has alternative worksheets and cards for educators who teach British English. All in all the kit helps introduce over 60 words related to clothes and accessories.

The clothes and accessories crossword puzzle for words hat,  hoodie, coat, stockings, blouse, underpants, tie, slippers, sandals, jeans.

Christmas Flashcards. Part 5.

This blog post features the last batch of printable flashcards I designed to help kids memorize the Christmas vocabulary.

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These flashcards introduce some nouns that are featured in other printable teaching materials I created for my Christmas season English classes. My Christmas kit includes a range of activities that an ESL teacher can engage students with to help them learn more about one of the biggest holidays in the English-speaking world. Flashcards can be a fun way to make the first steps in introducing the vocabulary that can further be consolidated with the help of my printable Christmas worksheets (crosswords, word search puzzles, picture to word matching) and games (dominoes and bingo).

Printable Transportation Flashcards. Part 2.

This is the second blog post dedicated to my collection of printable transportation flashcards designed for ESL teachers.

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The transportation flashcards make part of more than 700 picture flashcards covering some common nouns in 16 topics. Those colorful cards can serve as a great visual stimulus for English classes especially when teaching kids.

Printable Transportation Flashcards. Part 1.

Having published the blog post about the transport song, I decided I would start sharing my collection of 700+ English flashcards with those dedicated to the transportation topic. And soon, to follow the trend, I will create a set of printable games and worksheets for educators to help students memorize and consolidate the transportation vocabulary.

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Means of transport are one of 16 topics featured in the set of printable flashcards designed for ESL teachers to introduce some common English nouns to students. The transportation picture cards cover the following vocabulary: airplane (UK: aeroplane), bicycle, boat, bus, cab (taxi), car, helicopter, highway (UK: motorway), jet, motorcycle (UK: motorbike), rocket, ship, submarine, subway (UK: underground), traffic lights, train, transportation, truck (UK: lorry), van, yacht.