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Get Epic Books have given free access till the end of june to students – 40,000 digital titles!

ByMaking English Fun! March 19, 2020December 13, 2023

For me and i guess for many others this is a big deal! Epic has over 40,000 leveled readers and quizzes. It also offers the opportunity to see how your students have engaged with the material, how long they read the book for and for the majority of their books there are quizzes and questions.

FREE ENGLISH SUBJECT SUBSCRIPTIONS AND RESOURCES FROM EDUCATIONAL COMPANIES FOR SCHOOL CLOSURES BECAUSE OF COVID-19 (CORoNA VIRUS)

ByMaking English Fun! March 15, 2020November 7, 2020

The other lists is getting HUGE so i thought it might be time to start to catagorise them, the link on Amazing teaching resources has everything from Maths to Music the one below, and much easier for me to maintain! is the English Resources one. There are still absolutely loads of companies offering help at this difficult time.

FREE Educational Companies subscriptions and resources for the coronavirus (covid-19) School closures

ByMaking English Fun! March 13, 2020November 15, 2023

There have been more and more educational companies offering to either give free resources, or a months free subscriptions. So I will highlight the ones I am aware of here, with a BRIEF DESCRIPTION of what they do, (there are so many) it has to be brief as there are quite a few, and i expect a few more to appear in the coming weeks as more and more countries start to have to close kindergartens, schools and universities.

Home Schooling during the Novel Corona Virus.

ByMaking English Fun! February 15, 2020March 14, 2021

Well i am a teacher based in Hong Kong so we find ourselves under a defacto quarantine arrangement. I actually wrote this a couple of weeks ago and decided not to post it in the hope it would have all blown over. However students are now out of school until the 16th of March, and teachers are being asked to come up with online learning activities to try to bridge the gap.

10 of the Best Teaching Online English Resources

ByMaking English Fun! February 10, 2020April 23, 2021

At the moment, it being February 9th 2020, I am stuck at home here in Hong Kong. I am a teacher here and have been for a long time. They have closed the schools till at least March the 2nd, and though I am sure my students as well as me did a little WHOOP noise when we heard that fast forward a week with most of Hong Kong closed and it is actually pretty boring.

Teach Your Monster to Read Mini-games Instructions

ByMaking English Fun! February 4, 2020March 14, 2021

An introduction to the Minigames on teach your monster to read website. All these are free to access and really useful for self directed as well as classroom use!

Teaching Contractions Resources and Ideas

ByMaking English Fun! February 3, 2020March 14, 2021

Pray tell, just what is a contraction? If you want to go straight to the resource press here 🙂 As anyone who knows a little about science will know ( and all the parents out there of course) to contract means to make some thing smaller be it words or muscles. If you are a…

Teaching Y as a Vowel!

ByMaking English Fun! January 29, 2020January 28, 2025

This is a tricky one, of all the phonics rules the ones surrounding the letter and sounds of ”y” are difficult to find out. Especially after our students have gone through learning The names of the letters and then the sounds they can make, and maybe even that some of those letters have more than one sound, and then we show them ”y”

Classroom Activities for Younger and ESL Students.

ByMaking English Fun! January 28, 2020November 7, 2020

Work gets in the way so it is just a quick update today, I put onto Facebook an Animal Domino’s activity and it took off! 10000 people downloaded it in just one day, so that gave me a big smile all day. I hope it was useful for you if you downloaded it.

Junior Science: Make a Floating Compass.

ByMaking English Fun! January 26, 2020November 7, 2020

emember seeing this on an old ( very old) English TV show called Why Don’t You, when i was a kid and running off to my mum sewing kit to try to take her needles. I tried to explain it to her that if ever we were lost i was learning how to save us. Luckily she let me go.