Question 1

Why do phonics lists in the beginners levels have so few words?

Accepted Answer

Here is a picture of one of the phonics practice pages from Beginners 3.

![Kid-Inspired ELL Beginners book 3 (full color)35.png](https://malcolm-en-gb.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/instances/VJjCVlXBck/resources/RhCsjSmhWs/Kid-Inspired%20ELL%20Beginners%20book%203%20%28full%20color%2935.png)

The lists on these pages are quite short.

I learned this the hard way, through experimenting with lots of students over a lot of years.

**Longer lists of words are fine for stronger students, but weaker students feel overwhelmed when looking at them.**

Also, stronger students who can read all the words on a simple list are probably ready for simple texts instead of lists.

Use the short lists to help students master a new sound.

Once they have mastered that new sound, you can have them try longer lists of words, but they are probably going to be more motivated to reaad simple texts instead.

Question 2

How do I use the vocabulary pages in the curriculum?

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Click below to check out the video on how to use the vocabulary pages inside the ESL Curriculum Membership! You can also check out how the vocabulary page can be used by heading over to one of the [Grammar/Speaking Lessons Plans](https://kid-inspired.com/memb_materials/lesson-plan-grammar-lesson-b4-l3/).

Question 3

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.](https://kid-inspired.com/esl-curriculum)

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Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

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:
1. Present Simple
2. Present Continuous
3. Future ("will" & "going to")
4. Past Simple
5. Past Continuous
6. 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.
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* Then they can start changing words in the sentences to make them their own.
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* Then they can start making their own sentences in little back-and-forth Q&A activities with partners.
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* 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!!

Question 6

How do I use NearPod to teach with the materials online?

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The Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum includes NearPod files! NearPod is a really fun, free platform where you can create interactive slides. You can teach one-on-one or get whole groups engaging with the lessons at the same time. Lessons can be synchronous or asynchronous. Check out the video to learn more! Live example (from one of our [Independent Teachers Membership](https://independent-teacher.com/independent-teachers-membership-sign-up/) get togethers) **To get access to the curriculum, you can choose from one of the following memberships:** 1. [Kid-Inpspired ESL Curriculum Membership ->](https://kid-inspired.com/esl-curriculum) - Includes the entire curriculum and all supplementary teaching resources. 2. [Independent Teachers Membership ->](https://independent-teacher.com/independent-teachers-membership-sign-up/) - Includes the entire **Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum Membership ** - Also includes your own website, payment processing, scheduling, course-building software, community of other teachers going independent, training courses on topics such as finding students, desigining your site, marketing, etc.

Question 7

Can I use the materials for teaching online?

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## Resource Formats

**There are 3 formats for most of the resources inside the ESL Curriculum Membership:

* PDFs, 
* Powerpoint, 
* NearPod.

There are a number of ways you can use the materials from the Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum online with your students.

You can check out the video below on how the NearPod integration works. NearPod also integrates nicely with Google Classroom for giving assignments to students to complete.

Here are a few tutorials for how to use the materials with popular platforms:

* [NearPod ->](https://support.kid-inspired.com/faqs/how-do-i-use-nearpod-to-teach-with-the-materials-online)
* [Google Classroom ->](https://support.kid-inspired.com/faqs/how-do-i-assign-materials-online-google-classroom)
* [Seesaw ->](https://support.kid-inspired.com/faqs/how-do-i-assign-materials-online-using-seesaw)
* [Zoom ->](https://support.kid-inspired.com/faqs/how-do-i-assign-materials-online)

## Access to the Curriculum

**To get access to the curriculum and download resources, you can choose from one of the following memberships:**

1. [Kid-Inpspired ESL Curriculum Membership Click Here ->](https://kid-inspired.com/esl-curriculum)
 - Includes the entire curriculum and all supplementary teaching resources.

2. [Independent Teachers Membership Click Here ->](https://independent-teacher.com/independent-teachers-membership-sign-up/)
 - Includes the entire **Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum Membership **
 - Also includes your own website, payment processing, scheduling, course-building software, community of other teachers going independent, training courses on topics such as finding students, desigining your site, marketing, etc.

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