Super Simple Learning

I would like to recommend the website Super Simple Learning that offers an extensive material for English teaching in pre-school uptil grade four. When you register as a member, on the website www.supersimplelearning.com, you get access to a lot of learning material - for free. Flash-cards, games, worksheets and coloring pages are some of the materials the website offers you as a teacher. You will also have access to a duty free electronic course, based on eight lessons, in how to teach young pupils English by songs. A subtitle under the tab Free resources is Teaching tips where you find various kind of ideas in how to teach English. All you need to use the material of the website is Internet and a computer or an Ipad. I strongly recommend working with this website on a Smart Board. That makes it possible to have full class lessons with your pupils where you for example can play video clips and tap and draw directly on the board.

Under the tab Songs you find a variety of songs with lyrics and sounds that treat common words and categories, for example; animals, food, body parts, emotions, clothing and counting. There are also songs for special holidays such as Christmas and Halloween. These songs are great for teaching the pupils English words about our feasts and traditions. On the front page of the website you are given the opportunity to browse songs by topic.

The website also offers several different cartooned alphabet exercises. There the pupils can see a letter and an object that begins with it. They can also hear the phonetic pronunciation. The words presented in these exercises are common every-day-life words that are familiar for most children and very easy to make gestures to. You are also given the opportunity to download worksheets (level 1-4) that are associated to the cartooned exercises. I think that the fact that the exercises allow students to use multiple senses contributes a learning that is remembered in both body and mind.

The author team of the Super Simple Learning website also links to their blog. There you find categories that the team blogs about. They give you great examples about how to use their learning material and they also have giveaway competitions where you can win some of their toll material, for example a book and an audio-cd. Besides that, Super Simple Learning has accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. They also have a channel at Youtube that, at the end of the year 2015, had more than three billion views.

Super Simple Learning is an award-winning website that I strongly recommend for all English teachers educating younger pupils. The learning material fulfills much of the core content in Lgr11´s syllabus of English in primary school. I hope you will find Super Simple Learning as good and inspiring as I do!

// Sofi Andersson