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Teachers' Notes for Academic 4-Skills Course 1: Pre Beg (Preschool–Grade 2)

Ellii TeamOctober 21, 2020

Learning Objectives

  • Learn and/or review the English alphabet (lowercase and uppercase) and the numbers 1–10.
  • Learn and/or review introductory English vocabulary. Themes include colors, shapes, food, animals, birthdays, school, and family.
  • Learn and practice the Be verb and the simple present tense.
  • Listen to easy stories and follow along.

Teachers' Notes

Log in to Ellii and go to Folders (in the Class Prep drop-down menu). Toggle to Ellii Folders. You will find a starter course of lessons and resources suitable for pre-beginner to beginner Preschool–Grade 2 ELs.

Introductory Resources

At the beginning of the course, you will find a few introductory resources: 

Course Content

Following the introductory resources, you will find a list of lessons, flashcards, and other worksheets. This is a guideline for teachers who need help getting started for the first time with students in this age group. You can adapt the order and content based on your students’ needs and the length of your course. These materials are in a suggested order, but you do not need to follow this order exactly or use all of these lessons.

Be sure to adapt ready-made courses to meet the level and needs of your students. Choose additional or alternative lessons from the suggested sections below (under the More Content heading). When looking for additional materials to teach for this age group, you will likely only use the level filters marked Lit, Pre Beg, and Beg. Here is an Equivalency Scale that may be useful.

For this age group and level, you will rely heavily on flashcards from the Flashcard Library. We've included some ready-made sets for you in the folder. You can also create and broadcast your own digital flashcard sets using our Flashcard Player.

Some of the suggested lessons have digital tasks so that you can teach your students online or assign digital homework. If you need help using the digital platform, visit our Help Docs.

If you are only able to teach online at this time and you want to use a lesson that is currently only available as a PDF, you can download the Student PDF and email it to your student(s) or you can open it on a shared screen while you teach an online lesson.

Course Assessment

There are three assessment sections in this course: 

More Content for Preschool–Grade 2

You can build additional courses for this age and level using the following suggestions:

Language Targets: simple present / past / future tenses, personal / possessive / indefinite pronouns, conjunctions, determiners, capitalizing proper nouns, frequently used irregular plurals, basic punctuation (period / comma / apostrophe)

Functions: identify illustrations, describe familiar people / places / things, ask and answer questions about key details, describe characters / settings / main events, compare and contrast experiences, tell a story, recount a story, read and write simple sentences

Themes: holidays, transportation, weather, food, animals, community, time, body

Sections

Here are some suggested Ellii sections for teaching very young learners. We ask that you always preview the content for age appropriateness.

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