Interesting Books

Hilda L. Jackman (1999). Sing me a story I tell me a song! Crowin Press, Inc.

This book is especially useful for teachers of young learners since it includes creative activities especially designed for children. The author described her book as "a newly found teaching friend that will offer creative curriculum activities to help new teachers, teachers already practicing in early childhood education, administrators, supervisors, college educators and students". The book is made up of 6 sections (All about me, the senses, seasons, environment, animals and more, and transportation). Each section is comprised of at least four themes. Each theme suggests a set of vocabulary words, shows a children created bulletin board, a bibliography of children's book, parents letters in addition finger, plays, poems, stories, dramatic play, music, art, math, science and social studies A CD-ROM accompanies this book and includes thematic outline, lesson plans, parent letters and charts.


Cunningham. P.M., Moore S.A., Cunningham J.W., Moore D.W. (1995) Reading and Writing in Elementary Classroom: Strategies and Observations Longman Publishers USA
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This book is very helpful for teachers of young learners because it contains authentic reading and writing activities along with appropriate strategies to use. The book also includes narrative chapters with concrete examples of how the ideas and activities might be implemented in different grade levels. Moreover, it includes sections which preview and summarize each chapter and four kinds of boxes (Listen, Look and Learn Boxes, Try out Boxes, Do It Together Boxes and Add to Your Journal Boxes). These boxes suggest extra activities which promote application either through journal writing, cooperative work, or sensory activities. Each chapter ends with a section that summarizes research findings and the theoretical base. There's also an annotated bibliography of additional readings. The instructor's edition of this book contains students’ projects, essay questions and transparency masters.


Shamcem N., Tikoo M. (editors) (1999). New Ways in Using Communicative Games in Language Teaching, TESOL, Inc.

This book is helpful for teachers of young learners because it offers many useful and enjoyable activities for using English Communicatively. Each activity is presented as a game. The activities in the book are sorted into five parts: 1) Learning communication strategies 2) Learning content Matter 3) Learning from one another 4) developing skills in discourse 5) Developing fluency. The five parts cover the main goals of communicative activities as identified by Nation and Thomas (1988) Teachers can choose activities according to the main goal of their lesson. Within each part, activities are sorted by level and the first activity always works at any level.

Gruber B., Gruber S. Friends: Ideas and Activities across the Curriculum. Frank Schaffer theme book series.

This series is particularly helpful for teachers of young learners who are following a theme based curriculum. The series offers around thirty books of different themes for different Grade levels (1=>6) such as: Our Five Senses, Fairly Tales, Animals Habitat, Ecology, Neighbor hoods etc, Each book includes a letter for parents, an award for students, cooperative learning activities, ideas for making bulletin boards, practicing reading, writing, listening and speaking in addition to cross-curriculum activities that are related to art, math, science and social studies.