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Rhymes & Fingerplays for Babies, Toddlers, Preschoolers

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 Rhymes & Fingerplays for Babies, Toddlers, Preschoolers Fingerplays and rhymes come to life during circle and large group times as preschool children show word meaning through simple actions and finger movements. Preschoolers develop memory and recall skills as they sing and recite the songs and poems in this curriculum resource collection. I have collected the rhymes, fingerplays and songs in this collection during the past 30 years and either don't know or have forgotten many author's names. Download

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

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Charles Dickens - Great Expectations Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel; a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens' weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes. Download

How to teach all year round like a pro.

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How to teach all year round like a pro. Download

Just a Snowy Vacation by Gina and Mercer Mayer (Golden Books)

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Just a Snowy Vacation by Gina and Mercer Mayer (Golden Books) Download Our Blog https://5minuteenglish.blogspot.com.eg Our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/5MinuteEnglish Our FAcebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/5MinuteE #Learn_English with #5MinuteEnglish

Alain Mabanckou — Memoirs of a Porcupine

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Alain Mabanckou — Memoirs of a Porcupine  All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some doubles are benign, others wicked. This legend comes to life in Alain Mabanckou’s outlandish, surreal, and charmingly nonchalant Memoirs of a Porcupine.  When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village, reaches the age of 11, his father takes him out into the night and forces him to drink a vile liquid a jar that has been hidden for years in the earth. This is his initiation. From now on, he and his double, a porcupine, become accomplices in murder. They attack neighbors, fellow villagers, and people who simply cross their path, for reasons so slight that it is virtually impossible to establish a connection between the killings. As he grows older, Kibandi relies on his double to act out his grizzly compulsions, until one day even the porcupine balks and turns instead to literary confession.  Winner of the Prix Renaudot, France’s equal to the...

Never too old : 6 Minute English

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6 Minute English : Never too old

The subjunctive UK vs US English

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The subjunctive UK vs US English