Do your students love reading cute stories and having fun in class, but you’re struggling to find suitable books for their level or link stories to measurable learning outcomes? Maybe you want to stretch their creativity a bit, helping them tell their own stories?
Abridge Academy is excited to launch our BRAND NEW stories course. It is packed with surprises and tools to transform your young readers and writers! Combining guided reading, storytelling and creative writing lessons, it’s an experience that will ignite their creativity, build reading confidence, and help them love learning English with you🌟
But don’t just take our word for it – Jillian says she is “OBSESSED” with the creative writing classes, while Ivy appreciates how they are “super fun, creative [and] tailor-made for beginner ESL students” and Grant says his students “love the lessons“. We promise, you’ll feel the same! 😍
What’s included?
Take the stress out of finding high quality guided reading materials adapted for ESL students with Abridge Academy’s pre-made guided reading lessons! Our ever-expanding library includes everything you need to teach engaging, fun and interactive online ESL classes, including:
📚 Levelled reading lessons based around traditional fairy tales and fables.
📝 Creative and narrative writing lessons to develop storytelling skills.
🎁 100s of printable worksheets, flashcards, certificates and creative projects.
Designed specifically for ESL students, these lessons are fun and engaging, link directly to language learning objectives, and are packed full of interactive activities! They can be used as stand-alone lessons, added in to supplement your core curriculum lessons, or taught as a full guided reading or creative writing course.
Guided reading lessons
Available in a range of levels for each story, these levelled readers focus on reading fluency, comprehension and discussion skills. Students will read the story, review related vocabulary and grammar, and analyse the deeper meanings or morals of the text.
With lots of built-in interactive activities, creative projects and games, these lessons are fun and engaging for young learners!
Storytelling lessons
Encourage students to re-tell popular stories in their own words, using the provided question prompts and images. This can be done orally or in written form, with the lesson slides automatically generating their final story for sharing.
Throughout the class, you can work on writing skills such as adding more detailed descriptions, using dialogue, or correcting spelling, punctuation, and grammar. This is a great introduction to creative writing, building on stories they are already familiar with.
Twist the Tale lessons
Did the hare really just have a nap mid-race? Was the wolf actually the victim of the three little pigs’ evil plans? Ideal for intermediate level students or above, these lessons challenge learners to put their own spin on traditional stories, either using the given prompts or coming up with their own.
With more formal writing practice, including character profiling and planning the plot, these are a great way to develop creative and narrative writing skills.
Supplementary materials
Alongside pre-made lesson slides, there are also 100s of accompanying worksheets, creative activity templates, certificates, vocabulary flashcards, story summaries, and more. These are perfect for pre-class learning, homework tasks, or for individual work during group classes.
You can easily share the printable PDF files with your students, upload to your online teaching platform’s whiteboard, or print for in-person classroom use.
Get started teaching more engaging guided reading lessons today!
These new guided reading, storytelling and creative writing teaching materials are just one part of the Abridge Academy curriculum! Get access to 500+ highly interactive, professional, and engaging pre-made lessons for your online ESL classes today.