Making ESL Learning Fun for Preschoolers

The right ESL pre-K educational materials can facilitate learning and more fun. Take for example the research of Dr. Howard Gardner, who came with the theory of multiple intelligences. This essentially rules that is the idea that the best way of learning for children by sitting at a table doing "desk." Instead, Gardner localized different "intelligences" which are essentially learning styles. Each has a specific intelligence (or a few specific intelligences) that defines howhe or she learns best. This means that to reach all children in a classroom, different learning methods are available to them. The multiple intelligences are

* Linguistic intelligence: Learning and using spoken and written

* Logical-mathematical intelligence: Logically analyze problems, identify patterns, reasoning.

to appreciate the performance, composition and musical patterns: * musical intelligence.

* Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence:solve the whole body or body parts, the problems.

* Spatial intelligence: the recognition of patterns of wide space and confined areas.

* Interpersonal intelligence: working effectively with others.

* Intrapersonal intelligence: Understanding self and feelings.

Through the use of games and other activities in the classroom, you can use language to create a class time, different intelligences, which investigates and reaches a large number of children, not just theLearners.

It is also important to remember that preschoolers simply learn best through play. Just think about how children learn to count preschool. You can count how many cars have played or how many blocks are stacked.

Here's an example of how to transform an ordinary vocabulary activities in a thrilling game stimulates imagination and encourages children to a better conservation. Imagine teaching colors. Tell your children they are piratestheir treasure overboard and lost, they must dive down and recover. Spread colored objects or cards around the floor. Demonstrate, by leaving in a big breath, breath and dive down and take a colored object, then back on the air and ask the children to name the color, or whatever you want, depending on whether you're doing a talk or listening activities. Then tell the children dip the colors from time to collect. You could even more dramaticallyDimming the lights when the children dive and turn, if sent to the surface. The children can then sort the treasure of different colors, to store safely in treasure chests (boxes or bags - one for each color).

Every pediatrician will tell you that the best way to encourage a large vocabulary in your children is to read every day. For children learning English you need super simple stories, and in an ideal world, the stories reinforce the language andSix vocabulary teaching in the classroom. You can access a free ESL preschool story article with games in the resource box below.

Furthermore, the use of games and stories that should be considered in a couple of other things:

* Preschool children have poor attention span in order to change your activities every five minutes or so, because if you go beyond that, restless and start spending more time looking, as their attentionactually doing the activity.

* Teach a small amount of language in a particular session. For this age group, attempts to introduce three words at a time and then see the list, how children understand the meaning of words that have already been introduced.

* With children at various levels. This movement has the appearance of motor and large, sing, talk, listen. For example, you could be a game where children need to move in spacestand next to a picture or an object say they have heard of the word.

* Competition in the preschool classroom causes undo pressure on children. To avoid games or doing business, the losers are winners e. Both have the class work together to distinguish the "win" in a group or not, between the winners and losers. On the same note, make sure that supportive and encouraging to all students in your class.

* Preschool children can be very excitableexcitable so many games with breastfeeding in order to balance the energy in the classroom.

* Preschool children are very visual. Bring in real objects whenever possible. If you can find colorful and vivid image.

* Preschooler children are usually not read and write (at least not in large scale) have come to expect in their own language, not that they do it in a second language. At this age you can expect to listen and understand first. After a while 'we start talking about individual words and short sentences.

* Themes of work and pre-school class. Focus your vocabulary learning on groups of similar types of items like food, colors, numbers, animals, family and body parts. You can in short phrases that are relevant to your argument to work.

* Be prepared and plan more than you think to use and seamlessly from one game or activity to another. Use color or similar activities are peaceful, ifChildren need a break.

* Repeat, review and revise. It is often a need to review the vocabulary before you have taught, or are quickly forgotten.

* If you have a particularly naughty or rough student in the class should take him or her in your neighborhood. Ask him or her to your special helper and be sure to give lots of praise when they see it or act appropriately.

Above all, remember not only what they wanted to do in school. If you are boring,probably not too far from the class and the same is true for children in preschool and pre-K. For games and an illustrated story written for ESL preschoolers, visit the link in the box under the article. Help them to have fun and before they know it, they're learning!