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Quote donpaulo  For younger ones I have had alot of success with "Green Eggs and Ham" and "Go dog go" as well as "hop on pop". |
I've been using GE&H as my lesson plan with 6-8 year olds for the last 2 weeks. They can't get enough of it. I've used it to teach vocabulary, rhymes and verbs (I like, I don't like, Would you like? etc) and it's worked better than anything else I've found for that age group to actually get them TALKING. They're at the point now of reciting the story along with me. Dr. Seuss is non-existent in Peru, so I'm having some more books sent to me soon. Hop on Pop, Red Fish, Blue Fish, The Cat in the Hat, and I'm thinking I'll use 'where the wild things are' with my pre-schoolers. I'm even considering using the longer books (Bartholomew Cubbins, The Lorax, The Sneetches, Horton Hatches an Egg) with my high schoolers.
My regular textbook is Interchange - which has worked just fine for teaching vocabulary and basics - but really getting the kids to talk is a whole other story.