Question 1

How can I get a refund?

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If you are still within your refund period, you can contact support and request a full refund. No questions asked. Just send an email to support@kid-inspired.com or visit support.teacher-association.com.

Question 2

Can a student be in more than 1 group?

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You can put a student in as many groups as you want. The platform is designed to keep things flexible for you. This way you can see data results and get reports across a variety of characteristics you choose.

Generally though, you don't need to group students by any of the data you add on a student's profile—i.e. grade level, background flags, etc.—since you will be able to sort students by these fields at any time.

Question 3

I can't login! What do I do?

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Common Reasons Members Have Trouble Logging In

Q: I can't login! What do I do?

Common Reasons Members Have Trouble Logging In If you have just signed up and haven't received your login credentials, there are a few options: Double check your spam folder again to be sure. Get a text message (this doesn't work if you have logged in before) - You can find this option on the welcome page you arrived at after signing up. Contact John by email: accounts@kid-inspired.com Contact John by Messenger If you have logged in before, but can't now, here are a few possible explanations: You are logged in on too many devices . You are allowed to be logged in on a maximum of 3 devices only. You can log out of a device or two in order to be able to log in on a new device. You may need to check that you aren't logged in on a tab in a web browser that you have forgotten about. You may have input or saved your password incorrectly . You can reset your password by clicking on the Reset Password button on the Login screen or by sending an email accounts@kid-inspired.com You need to update payment information . If your account has fallen into arrears, you will lose access to the membership. You can remedy this by sending an email to accounts@kid-inspired.com for assistance. I'm always happy to help so just send an email to accounts@kid-inspired.com with any questions and we'll get it figured out!

If you have just signed up and haven't received your login credentials, there are a few options:

Double check your spam folder again to be sure.
Get a text message (this doesn't work if you have logged in before) - You can find this option on the welcome page you arrived at after signing up.
Contact John by email: accounts@kid-inspired.com
Contact John by Messenger

If you have logged in before, but can't now, here are a few possible explanations:

You are logged in on too many devices. You are allowed to be logged in on a maximum of 3 devices only. You can log out of a device or two in order to be able to log in on a new device. You may need to check that you aren't logged in on a tab in a web browser that you have forgotten about.
You may have input or saved your password incorrectly. You can reset your password by clicking on the Reset Password button on the Login screen or by sending an email accounts@kid-inspired.com
You need to update payment information. If your account has fallen into arrears, you will lose access to the membership. You can remedy this by sending an email to accounts@kid-inspired.com for assistance.

I'm always happy to help so just send an email to accounts@kid-inspired.com with any questions and we'll get it figured out!

Question 4

How long does a level in the ESL Curriculum Membership generally take to complete?

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How long does a level in the ESL Curriculum Membership take to complete?

The time it takes to complete a level varies based on a number of factors.

Number of Classes a Week - with classes every day you would move significantly faster through the material than only having classes 2-3 times a week.
Length of Classes - 1/2 hour, 1 hour, 1 and 1/2 hour classes, the length of classes affects how long a level takes.
Homework - How much practice your students would be doing outside of class on their own.
Goals - How quickly you and your students want to make progress. If you skip certain pages or even certain units, you can progress more quickly but with not as much depth. If you work through all of the materials and take your time with it, you can get a lot of depth but progress much more slowly. One option is to discuss with students what goals they’d like to set for themselves each week or month.
Motivation - Every class of students is different, just as how every teacher teaches is different. If you have an energetic, focused and motivated class, you will likely be able to work quickly through the materials. If you have a group of students who are discouraged, unmotivated and drag their feet, you will likely need to spend as much time on relationship and trust building as you do on the curriculum which would slow you down significantly.

At the school where we developed the curriculum, we generally take a semester (about 4 months) to go through a level with a group of 10-12 students, 2 days a week each, class being 2 hours and 15 minutes.

In the summer, we sometimes do more concentrated versions of a level where students come to class every day for 2 hours and finish a level in a month.

If you'd like to discuss your particular needs, contact John at john.carlson@kid-inspired.com

Question 5

Are there leveled readers in the membership?

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**If you're in need of reading passages, I've got you covered. **

There are tons of literacy lessons inside the ESL Curriculum Membership each with an engaging, original reading passage that your students will love.

There are also fun phonics and Dolche Sight Word reading passages that you can use for extra reading practice at any level depending on students' reading needs.

Sign up for the ESL Curriculum Membership here.

Question 6

What grade levels is the Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum appropriate for?

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If you teach K-7, you will find engaging, effective teaching materials for your students.

Since every teacher's situation is different, there are a variety of ways for you to find what you need inside of the membership.

You can read more about finding materials by following this link.

You can sign up for the Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum Membership here.

Question 7

How do I find materials I need in the membership?

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Because teachers' goals for their students as well as students' situations vary greatly from school to school, I've provided numerous ways to sort through a wide variety of resources and tools inside the membership.

One way is to use the Kid-Inspired ESL Assessment which you can download for free here: https://kid-inspired.com/english-language-assessment/
You may also find the Foundations for Fantastic Classes course inside the membership helpful as well for deciding which materials to use with your students.
There is also a quick Level Chooser Assistant where you can answer a few questions and get an idea of leveling (You can find this on the homepage).
Finally, since you know (or will know) your students best, you can dig into the different levels yourself and test things out by starting a little low and working your way up to where students are productively challenged.

You can sign up for the Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum Membership here.

Question 8

Is the Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum differentiated by grade level?

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The curriculum is differentiated by grade level and proficiency level.

Because teachers' goals for their students as well as students' situations vary greatly from school to school, I've provided numerous ways to sort through a wide variety of resources and tools inside the membership.

You can learn more about finding materials inside the membership here.

There are also lots of supporting materials to help your students access grade-level material from their gen ed classes if needed.

I add new materials monthly, so if you ever need anything, let me know!

You can sign up for the Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum Membership here.

Question 9

What do the codes (i.e. B1.03) at the beginning of the resources mean?

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Resource Codes

Many of the resources have a little code in the title. For example, B1.03.

This is a very special, insider code that is only for members of the Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum.

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Alright, here is the top secret meaning of the codes:

B1 = Beginners Level 1 (B2 would be Beginners Level 2)

.03 = This is the unit number that the lesson comes from, in this case Unit 3.

Other codes:

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Question 10

What is a "tense" and why is it important?

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As native speakers, we were never really taught formal English tenses.

We just learned them naturally, by speaking a lot.

If you ever took Spanish or French though, you'll know all about tenses.

The verbs in a sentence change based on the time frame in which they occurred. That is a tense.

And there are six major tenses in the English language. (There are lots more than that, but the others aren't as common and they are fairly easy considering they are just variations of the six major tenses.)

Here they are:

Present Simple
Present Continuous
Future ("will" & "going to")
Past Simple
Past Continuous
Present Perfect

I've had people argue with me that there is no such thing as a future tense, just a heads up.

In our case, considering we speak about the future using a particular grammar structure, for all effective purposes, it is a future tense, and our students need to know it in order to communicate effectively.

Now...

The next issue is how to teach these tenses.

Well, don't over-explain them.

Children learn English tenses just fine by interacting with their parents without their parents needing to give long, drawn-out grammar explanations.

Kids repeat everything they hear. Over and over.

Parents correct them at times by telling them how to say it correctly.

That's how we want to teach as well.

Tell the students what they need for a tense - a quick grammar explanation.

Then get them practicing it by hearing, speaking, reading and writing it A LOT.

That's it!

And that is exactly how the materials in the ESL Curriculum Membership are set up.

You'll find speaking pages with sentence starters that you can use with your students.

Start by using the example sentences, repeating them until the students have become familiar with the structure.
Then they can start changing words in the sentences to make them their own.
Then they can start making their own sentences in little back-and-forth Q&A activities with partners.
By the end of a class period, they will have said so many sentences in a particular tense that they will be doing it without thinking about it!!