Action Activities teach specific actions with a physical response—the principle behind Total Physical Response (TPR). By requiring this response, Action Activities help students to begin thinking in English, and they can respond physically to English before their verbal abilities have developed.

Songs are a fun and effective way to teach vocabulary and expressions. All Songs are designed to introduce vocabulary and language functions within the learning objectives. When combined with pictures and gestures, students’ understanding of the new concepts will increase when they hear similar phrases repeated in other contexts.

Shared Reading teaches phonics principles, such as phoneme and phonogram awareness, and the concepts of print. Poems introduce a new letter and teach students to recognize a sound at the beginning, middle, and end of words. Big Books teach proper pronunciation, natural expression, high frequency words, and basic vocabulary.

Chants contain most of the critical expressions necessary for communicating in English and provide a natural context for learning most language functions. Chants are designed to be learned in the same style as a regular conversation, helping students from speaking in an awkward monotone.

Stories provide an opportunity for daily repetition and expand students’ vocabulary and language functions with various sentence structures. Each Unit comes with a Story Dictionary, which reviews words and language functions from the previous Unit. Reading Stories facilitates discussions and allows for comprehension questions that build students’ confidence and communicative ability.

Vocabulary Picture Cards are important for teaching new vocabulary words and make it easy to learn the meaning of nouns, adjectives, and opposites. They also allow for quick assessment of student progress on proper pronunciation and natural intonation.

Learning phonograms and understanding how they come together to make words lays the foundation for future reading skills. Phonogram Cards allow students to focus on specific English sounds. Students will air write and learn the stroke order, name, and sound of each letter of the alphabet.

REP extends the student’s English exposure beyond the classroom with specifically designed online content that provides fun and exciting “edutainment” presented by professional native English speakers. Practice is important because it ensures the repetition and exposure to core language functions and patterns students need for increasing fluency.

Readers are short stories that let students use their phonics skills, including assembly and decoding, to read independently and with comprehension. Teacher-led questions encourage discussion and use of language expressions found in each story.

Writers are used to teach students how to write simple, phonetically-decodable words by assembling two or more phonograms. By saying the words as they write them, students also learn to instantly recognize the words, helping them become more fluent readers and writers.