If you teach English to young learners, you will love this relatively new blog from Carol Read, called Carol Read's ABC of Teaching Children.
I was fortunate enough to get to know Carol when I worked alongside her as a committee member for the IATEFL YL-SIG in the mid-noughties. She's a wonderful and dynamic person who certainly knows her stuff when it comes to teaching English to children, and she's a brilliant communicator. She's also an accomplished materials writer and teacher trainer in the TEYL field.
Carol's ABC of Teaching English has a topical listing format similar to Scott Thornbury's An A-Z of ELT blog, with each entry featuring a key word or term (for example: I is for Imagination or H is for Holistic learning). Like Scott's blog, each post attracts a lot of excellent and thought-provoking comments from a rich variety of teachers.
However, unlike Scott's content (which of course deals with ELT across the board and does tend towards the theoretical), Carol's posts and the contributions from her readers blend the theoretical and pedagogical with practical hands-on experience and application - always an important characteristic for truly useful discussion about teaching younger learners.
Carol's blog is sorely needed in the field of TEYL, and she's made a flying start. If you teach children, I hope you'll pop over to her blog from time to time and join a very active and helpful community of TEYL practitioners at all levels of experience. There is a lot to be learned there, and a lot to share as well!
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