Teaching EFL to Children: Classes Achievements: Gross Motor Skills

The importance of teaching English to children

The importance of teaching English to children

It is needed to teach English since Preschool, because at this grade the children are very receptive to knowledge. Several theorists like Montessori said that at an early age, the kids are like sponges that absorb everything from the environment. Besides Piaget and Vigotsky, highlight the influence of the external stimulation and interactios on the learning.

According to this, it is really important create an English environment for preschool and elementary students, with the purpose of get the students used to the language, making more familiar for them the English sounds and pronunciation, through words and expressions; improving gradually their interaction with the foreign language and making it more easier to be learned in the future, with the complexity that arise, like grammar structures and skills development.

Providing a "Natural" learning of the English by creating a natural environment since Preschool, with joyful and entertain English activities, motivate and get involved the students in the learning process. Those activities can have reading and speaking tasks according to the level, grade and age of the students; can be brought different and useful topics and assessments to teach English to children, through materials like storybooks, toys and many things which the kids feel attracted to.

Developing Gross Motor Skills with English

Gross motor skills are the movements that use the large muscles of the human body. Those movements can be done in activities such like running, jumping, catching and throwing , and other activities wich involved the large muscles. “Good gross motor skills are essential, because the body develops from large moments such as control of the arms and the legs, to small, isolated movements that include the hands and fingers. Without reasonable gross motor control, it can be difficult for children to move onto developing the fine motor skills...". Some gross motor activities that use English can be:

Through this activities you can involved all the students and funny and dinamic games, where they have to move a lot, jump and run to develop the Gross Motor Skills, but also use those games to teach colors, numbers and simple directions in English.

I am going to leave you some links where I got information and where you can find more examples:
http://www.getreadyforschool.com/preschool/preschool_activity.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HzlWIUmpkg

The importance of teaching English to children

Gross Motor Skills

Developing Gross Motor Skills with English

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