Move Like the Animals: Sight Word Stories for Beginning Readers and ESL

This series is designed for beginning ESL students and young emergent readers.  Each class will cover one story, so students can start the series at any point.

 This series teaches young students to read three simple  stories, with activities designed to help them build vocabulary and reading skills. All resources and activities are online, so students can clearly see the text and visuals. I adapt my teaching to meet the needs of my learners, so each series is unique to that group. Through songs and games, students are supported and encouraged to read the book independently by the end of the class. Students will learn:

	• action verbs
		○ present progressive (jumping, climbing, swinging, hiding, etc.)
		○ present simple (swim, dive, stomp, dance, etc.)
		○ past continuous (was running, was watching, was sleeping, was barking, etc.)

	• animal names: cat, dog, mouse, monkey, elephant, kangaroo, penguin, snake, polar bear, badger, flamingo
	
	• adverbs: quietly, loudly
	
	• sentence patterns
		○ He is ______-ing up the tree.
		○ I can ______ like a ________
		○ The ____ was ____ing quietly.
		
	• sight words: can, you, like, a, I, an, too, the, his, am, at, look, in, up, is, he, 

	•  Make a book: 
		○ Where is the Monkey? 
		○ The Quiet Night
		○ I Can Move Like an Animal

In this class students will…
• Sing warm-up songs to introduce each topic and vocabulary
• Play vocabulary games with fun visuals and sound effects
• Read short stories with predictable text using repeated sentence patterns
• Practice basic sight words from each story
• Make their own versions of each book that I will send to you so that they can read it again and again, with additional phonics activities