Articles on teaching pre-school kids. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Updated 11 October 2021
Other relevant pages of articles
Using songs articles page (mainly on very young learners)
Using picture books and stories articles page (ditto)
First classes with young learners articles page (ditto)
On choosing and using worksheets for pre-school kids (should you want to/ need to)
The first 15 stages of using worksheets in kindergarten English classes – LINK FIXED
15 criteria for choosing or making preschool English worksheets – LINK FIXED
Other very practical basics
15 uses for guessing games in any preschool English class – LINK FIXED
15 flashcard activities for any preschool English class – LINK FIXED
15 fun sit down activities for preschool English classes – LINK FIXED
15 ways of starting a preschool English lesson – LINK FIXED
15 ways to finish a preschool English lesson – LINK FIXED
Discipline and attention
15 techniques for calming down a preschool English class – LINK FIXED
15 punishments for preschool English classes (and the interesting debate it started) – LINK FIXED
15 reasons for misbehaviour in preschool English classes (and what to do about them) – LINK FIXED
A bit more adminy
Can-do statements in preschool English classes (an original idea, I think, and some very interesting comments by real published authors!) – LINK FIXED
Questions to ask before a new preschool English class – LINK FIXED
Should my English teaching school be a preschool school (or should my preschool be an English school)? (originally published in MET magazine)
Teaching common language points for very young learners articles
How to teach colour vocabulary in ESL classes
Classroom activities for colour vocabulary
How to teach colour word recognition
How to use colouring-in in EFL classes
The 15 stages of teaching numbers – LINK FIXED
Other teaching very young learners articles
15 criteria of a good preschool English class – LINK FIXED
15 variations on TPR for little kids – LINK FIXED
15 problems and solutions for large preschool classes – LINK FIXED
15 variations for large preschool English classes – LINK FIXED
TEFLtastic 
Hello,
My name is Barbara, from Poland, and I am researching for a diploma and need to contact people teaching English as a foreign language in nurseries/kindergartens abroad. My topic/research thesis is about teaching English to very young learners in different European kindergartens. Could somebody help me, please? I would be grateful!!!!!!!
basiaenglert@wp.pl