Make your own newspaper

Maybe they will disappear in the few next years, but printed newspapers are still familiar to everybody, including children, and this fantastic site allows changing titles and appearence to make our own newspaper with the texts and pictures we choose. Let your students try it!

Story Cubes

Children love listening to stories, but what about inventing their own? Story Cubes are a wonderful tool to use at the foreign language classroom, especially with the higher levels, when students are ready to understand the mechanisms of fiction.

The most famous cubes are Rory's Story Cubes, with several editions (Scooby Doo, Looney Tunes, Batman...), but you can find other publishers (try in Tiger), and you can even make up your own cubes with your own selection of stories. Check this great site.

You can find excellent explanations in Spanish for the use of Story Cubes here and here.

Book Creator

This excellent tool allows combining text, pictures, audio and video to create interactive tales, comics, and even portfolios, which will be useful for evaluation purposes. It is very easy to manage from a computer or a tablet, so easy that even your younger students can do it (and they love it!). These are samples of the books your pupils can create:

Our students' creations can be published into the Book Creator website, and shared through any platform which allows the epub format.

Here you can find a fantastic introduction to the app in Spanish.

Practicing structures

The elaboration of this resource is a bit shabby, but I'm sure you get the idea. From this starting point I can only improve this blog :P

Welcome everybody!

Hi! I'm Eduardo "Redwine" and this is my new blog, where you will find interesting resources and materials that we can use as teachers of English as a second or foreign language in Primary Education. Please, pay attention :)