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Read this article to get advice on integrating arts and crafts in the primary English classroom without losing sight of a learning objective. 

Using arts and crafts in the classroom can be an excellent way to facilitate language learning with young learners. 

These activities describe different ways you and your students can read text aloud in order to develop your students' feeling for the music of the language.

Parts of speech describe the categories that words are assigned to according to what grammatical or lexical function they have.

In this article you will find tips and ideas for using and extending craft activities in the classroom.

Directed activities related to texts (DARTs) are activities which get students to interact with texts. Their aim is to improve students' reading comprehension and to make them critical readers.

This can be done over a series of lessons as part of an ongoing project, dedicating each lesson to a different insect, or otherwise as one lesson. Children love squeamish subjects so you may find that they want you to extend what you originally planned to do.

Good readers use what they know about language and the world to interact with what they are reading. This helps them create meaning from the words on the page.

This is a vocabulary lesson with speaking and listening for very young learners.