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According to the OEC (Oxford English Corpus — a very large collection of English texts), below is a list of the twenty-five most common adjectives. English writers must be very optimistic—the most-used adjective in English is good whereas bad doesn’t show up until the 23rd slot!
Check out this post where you can start introducing stacked adjectives before your students even learn to read! A good set of flashcards is worth its weight in gold. Check out all the flashcards available in Donald’s English Classroom! Need to spice up your flashcard routines? Download 41 Flashcard Activities you can start using today.
In the last post, I talked about Stories For Young Readers from Kinney Brothers Publishing and how to purchase the series for your classes. In this post, I’ll focus on our Phonics & Spelling series. I’ll provide links for purchasing and recommended support materials for each text to help you plan for new classes in the spring.
The Phonics & Spelling series, published by Independent Publishers International (I.P.I.), is available with a special discount through David Paul’s ETJ Book Service. The five-book series is designed to teach kids the fundamental sounds and spelling of English in a multi-year, step-by-step ESL program. For many teachers, a solid phonics program is the cornerstone of their pre-K thru elementary classes. Focused phonics lessons and phonemic awareness improve pronunciation, listening comprehension, and give students the confidence to read and understand English.
You’ll find an abundance of support materials for this series in our online store, Donald’s English Classroom. Visit for downloadable flash cards, charts, games, and activities.
A to Z is the first step to introducing very young ESL students to the ABCs and phonics. If your kids are just learning to hold a pencil, this is the perfect primer. Children love coloring the large images and build dexterity writing the upper and lower-case letters. Included are easy dot-to-dot coloring pages, mazes, and matching exercises. Check out the preview to learn more.
Flash Card Set – ABC Flash Card Set – Phonics Bingo – ABC & Phonics I Have/Who Has – ABC Bingo Animals – Sea Fishing
ABC & Phonics, Book 1 lays the groundwork for phonetic based learning and focuses on writing and identifying upper and lower case ABCs. With basic writing, matching, and ordering exercises, teachers can readily assess student progress. The alphabet is broken down into four sections, a-f, g-l, m-r and s-z with review for each section. Click here for support materials that include flashcards, charts, games, and activities that make learning the ABCs fun! You can download a preview for this textbook here.
Flash Card Set – ABC Flash Card Set – ABC Bingo – ABC Fishing – Alphabet Charts – Exit Tickets
Phonics & Spelling, Book 2 begins with a review of the ABCs and sets students on their first exercises in sounding out, reading, and writing three-letter (CVC) words. Learned vocabulary is then set into easy sentences to teach students fundamental sentence constructs and meaning. Step by step, students also learn how to read and write a simple self-introduction. The exercises progress in an easy-to-teach, easy-to-comprehend approach adaptable to any program. Included are review pages, puzzles, games, and reading exercises that students find challenging and fun! Be sure to check out the preview here!
Flash Card Set – CVC Word Charts – CVC Word Puzzles – CVC I Have/Who Has – Swimming with Sharks – CVC Write Around the Room
Phonics & Spelling, Book 3 takes students further in building English reading and writing skills. Book 3 begins with a review of CVC words and then takes students to the next challenge of reading, writing, and spelling silent ‘e’ (CVCe) words, words with ea-ee-ey spelling, as well as th, sh, and ch digraphs. Exercise pages also include practice with numbers, plurals, more extended reading practice, and basic question forms using do and can. Check out the preview here!
Flash Card Set – CVCe Word Charts – CVCe I Have/Who Has – Silent e Bingo – Phonics Activity Set – ESL Pronunciation Practice
Phonics & Spelling, Book 4 completes the phonics series with almost two hundred packed pages of phonics lessons, reading and writing practice, puzzles, spelling tests, and Q&A drills. Exercises include consonant blends, digraphs, dipthongs and practice with silent k, g, and ion. The phonics lessons in this textbook create a solid foundation that supports students in their future English language learning. Download a preview here.
Flash Card Set – Dipthong & Digraph Charts – Task Cards – 320 Word Flash Card Set – Clock Bingo – Community Places
If you’d like to learn more about all Kinney Brothers Publishing has to offer, please download our catalogues! Peruse the complete lineup of our Global Edition ESL Textbooks or check out our ESL Store right from your desktop! Sign up for our newsletter and download a free CVC I Have/Who Has Activity Set!
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at info@kinneybrothers.com.
As always, best of luck in your classes!
Donald Kinney
Kinney Brothers Publishing
No matter the time of year, I get inquiries about the best way to purchase Kinney Brothers Publishing textbooks and downloadable resources. You shouldn’t have to worry about getting the materials you need for your students. We offer many options so you can make the best choice for your classes.
In Japan, the Stories For Young Readers series, published by Independent Publishers International (I.P.I.), is available with a special discount through David Paul’s ETJ Book Service. Print-on-demand services make this series available online through Amazon.com worldwide! For full textbook pdf and paperless (Google Slides) downloads, visit Donald’s English Classroom!
The Stories For Young Readers series includes questions, grammatical explanations, exercises, and puzzles for beginning students. The books are designed to extend students’ skills and interest in communicating in English. Teachers can utilize the stories and exercises for listening comprehension, reading, writing, and conversation. Book 1 focuses on present simple and present continuous reading exercises. Book 2 takes students further with simple past, past continuous and simple future tenses.
Check out the previews or download the first readings from Book 1 and Book 2 for free! They include audio files, answer keys and dialogues!
You’ll find an abundance of support materials for this series in our online store, Donald’s English Classroom. Visit for downloadable flash cards, charts, games, textbooks, answer keys, and audio files.
You might also be interested in Dialogues for Young Speakers – a series of dialogues and surveys designed to extend students’ conversation skills. Following Stories for Young Readers, the dialogues progress from present simple to present continuous in Book 1, and simple past, past continuous, and future tenses in Book 2. Not only will teachers find a wealth of material that will get students up and talking, the dialogues also prove that students can effectively communicate with even a limited vocabulary. You can download these textbooks online, order directly from the Kinney Brothers Publishing web site, or order on Amazon.co.jp. Download previews for Book 1 and Book 2 here!
If you’d like to learn more about all Kinney Brothers Publishing has to offer, please download our catalogues! Peruse the complete lineup of our Global Edition ESL Textbooks or check out our ESL Store right from your desktop! Sign up for our newsletter and download a free CVC I Have/Who Has Activity Set!
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at info@kinneybrothers.com.
As always, best of luck in your classes!
Donald Kinney
Kinney Brothers Publishing
Not sure how to get started in Google Classroom? Here are four free files you can download now and try out in your new virtual classroom! Play games, work with flash cards, or assign work from our digital textbooks!
Click on these links to learn more about Google Classroom, watch an introductory video or read this FAQ. Anyone with a gmail account can sign up for free!
Donald’s English Classroom has lots of digital files to get you started! Check out our popular Bingo Games and Flash Cards. We also have the complete Stories For Young Readers series, Book 1 and Book 2 available. Download individually or get the discounted Bundles.
Download the files below for free! Be sure to comment and let us know how you used these files in class!
