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Welcome to our Let's Share page! This is where our Let's Go authors and teachers share teaching tips, stories and advice – for free.

This month, the theme is 'Teaching writing to young learners'.

We'll add more webinars, articles, videos and lesson plans every month, so keep coming back to see what's new...

Timeline

  • avatar Karen Frazier wrote a blog: 'Teaching Writing to Young ELT Learners'. Read blog
  • avatar Karen Frazier gave a free webinar on 'Teaching writing to young learners'. Watch recording
  • avatar The Let's Go Team held a live chat on Facebook about teaching writing to young learners. Read the chat
  • avatar Karen Frazier has shared another sample writing lesson. Download lesson
  • avatar Karen Frazier has shared a sample writing lesson. Download lesson
  • avatar Barbara Hoskins shared a teaching tip on 'Teaching reading in every class'. Watch video
  • avatar Barbara Hoskins wrote a blog: 'Five things I think I know about teaching reading'. Read blog
  • avatar The Let's Go Team held a live chat on Facebook about teaching reading in every class. Read the chat
  • avatar Barbara Hoskins has shared 3 'Let's Read' lessons. Download lesson
  • avatar Barbara Hoskins gave a free webinar on 'How to teach reading in every class'. Watch recording
  • avatar The Let's Go Team and teachers from around the world shared ideas on getting the best from mixed-ability classes. Read their ideas
  • avatar The Let's Go Team held a live chat on Facebook about getting the best from mixed-ability classes. Read the chat here
  • avatar Barbara Hoskins shared a teaching tip on 'Getting the best from a large young learner class'. Watch video
  • avatar Barbara Hoskins shared a teaching tip on 'Getting the best from a mixed-ability young learner class'. Watch video
  • avatar Yumi Yoshida, from Osaka, Japan, shared her Let's Go story. Read her story
  • avatar Arjana Blazic, from Croatia, shared her Let's Go story. Read her story
  • avatar Kikko Shimizu, from Tochigi, Japan, shared her Let's Go story. Read her story
  • avatar Ritsuko Nakata gave a free webinar on 'Getting students to answer questions in full sentences'. Watch recording
  • avatar Barbara Hoskins gave a free webinar on 'Getting the best from big, small and mixed-ability classes'. Watch recording
  • avatar Ritsuko Nakata shared a free sample lesson from Let's Go. Download lesson
  • avatar Ritsuko Nakata shared a teaching tip on 'Introducing question forms to young learners'. Watch video
  • avatar Ritsuko Nakata shared a teaching tip on 'Introducing sentences to young learners'. Watch video
  • avatar Ritsuko Nakata shared a teaching tip on 'Introducing vocabulary to young learners'. Watch video
  • avatar Ritsuko Nakata wrote a blog: 'Introducing new language so that it sticks'. Read blog
  • avatar The Let's Go Team held a live chat on Facebook about using songs and chants in your classroom. Read the chat here
  • avatar Ritsuko Nakata gave a free webinar on 'Introducing new language effectively in the young learner classroom'. Watch recording
  • avatar Barbara Hoskins gave a free webinar on 'Bringing Technology into Your Young Learner Classroom'. Watch recording
  • avatar Barbara Hoskins shared a teaching tip on 'Creating a digital picture book with young learners'. Watch video
  • avatar Barbara Hoskins shared a teaching tip on 'A digital writing activity for young learners'. Watch video
  • avatar Barbara Hoskins shared a teaching tip on 'Using technology with young learners'. Watch video
  • avatar Barbara Hoskins wrote a blog: 'Help! My students won't sing!'. Read blog
  • avatar The Let's Go Team shared a lesson with a great song for getting children to introduce themselves in English. Download lesson
  • avatar The Let's Go Team answered some questions from teachers on phonics and homework. Read the questions and answers
  • avatar Carolyn Graham shared a teaching tip on creating your own vocabulary chants. Watch video
  • avatar Carolyn Graham shared a teaching tip on using name chants in the young learner classroom. Watch video
  • avatar Carolyn Graham shared a tip on using rhythm in the young learner classroom. Watch video
  • avatar Naoko Kita, from Japan, shared her Let's Go story. Read her story
  • avatar Maria Naito, from Ibaraki, Japan, shared her Let's Go story. Read her story
  • avatar Mandy Kuo, from New Taipei City, shared her Let's Go story. Read her story
  • avatar Junko Nakamura, from Tokyo, shared her Let's Go story. Read her story
  • avatar Judy Lin, from Taiwan, shared her Let's Go story. Read her story
  • avatar Dewi Sri Astuti, from Indonesia, shared her Let's Go story. Read her story
  • avatar Karen Frazier gave a free webinar on 'Getting children to talk in English from the very beginning' on 30 November 2012. Watch recording
  • avatar Karen Frazier wrote a blog on 'Getting children to talk in English from the beginning'. Read blog
  • avatar Karen Frazier has chosen a sample lesson from Let's Go to help you get your students speaking in English. Download lesson
  • avatar Karen Frazier shared another idea for using puppets in the classroom. Watch video
  • avatar Karen Frazier shared a teaching tip on using puppets in the classroom. Watch video
  • avatar Ivan Crespo, English 4-U Director from Brazil, shared his Let's Go story. Read his story
  • avatar Bruno Andrade, a teacher from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, shared his Let's Go story. Read his story
  • avatar Elizabeth Ogai, owner of Reset School in Hamamatsu, Japan, shared her Let's Go story. Read her story
  • avatar Miki Sakai, a teacher in Tokyo, Japan, shared her Let's Go story. Read her story
  • avatar Marco A. Brazil, Director of the Institute of English Teaching to Children (IETC), shared his Let's Go story. Read his story
  • avatar Naoko Amano, owner of the Yellow Banana Kids English Studio in Osaka, Japan, shared her Let's Go story. Read her story
  • avatar Yumiko Igawa, manager of the Noah Foreign Language Institute in Tokyo, Japan, shared her Let's Go story. Read her story

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Barbara Hoskins

Barbara Hoskins earned her secondary English teaching certificate and her MATESOL degree in the USA, and has taught English and ESL in the US, and EFL in Japan. An EFL teacher and teacher trainer since 1985, she has conducted workshops throughout Asia, the USA and Latin America.

Barbara's motto is 'Always try new things', so these days, when she's not teaching, writing, or giving workshops, she's exploring the potential of new technologies for collaboration and professional development. You can often find Barbara online working with teachers around the world as Program Director for International Teacher Development Institute (iTDi.pro) or on her award-winning blog, Teaching Village.

Barbara is co-author of Let's Go, one of the world's best-selling English courses for children, published by Oxford University Press.

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Ritsuko Nakata

Ritsuko Nakata was born and educated in the USA. She has more than 30 years' experience in teaching and specializes in training teachers of children in Japan. Having studied TESL in the USA, Ritsuko moved into an EFL environment, where she began experimenting with getting children to learn English in more practical, effective ways. She found that all students need to really 'use' the language to see how it works. This led her to develop her own method, called the MAT (Model, Action, Talk) METHOD, which uses unique techniques to get students confident in the Four Skills and speaking in natural English, rather than just repeating. Her method focuses on getting students to ask questions as well as answer them so that they can learn to start a dialog on their own, in addition to learning to read and write. These are some of the techniques used in Let's Go, one of the world's best-selling English courses for children, which she co-authored.

Ritsuko established the IIEEC Teacher Training Center in 1987 and developed the contents of the IIEEC-OUP Teacher Training Certificate Program with Oxford University Press in 2005. Ritsuko conducts seminars and workshops throughout Japan and Asia. She is on an NPO committee, which provides trained teachers to elementary schools. She volunteered as president of the Association of Teachers of Children for 23 years.

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Karen Frazier

Karen Frazier earned a degree in Speech, with an emphasis on Speech Pathology and has a Masters degree in Linguistics. She has over 30 years' experience working with English language learners in the USA and Taiwan, as an ESL/EFL teacher at various levels. She has also conducted teacher-training workshops in Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Mexico and the USA. In addition, she has been an advisor for international students of all ages and their families.

Karen is very interested in helping equip all ELT students with the language, confidence and other skills they need to be successful in an English language environment.

She is co-author of Let's Go, one of the world's best-selling English courses for children, published by Oxford University Press.

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Carolyn Graham

Carolyn Graham is the song and chants writer for the Let's Go series. She is also the creator of Jazz Chants®, which connect the rhythm of spoken American English to the beat of jazz.

She developed the technique of jazz chanting during her twenty-five years of teaching ESL in the American Language Institute of New York University.

She has also taught at Harvard University and has conducted workshops in the NYU School of Education, Columbia Teachers College in New York and Tokyo, and elsewhere throughout the world. the author of numerous Jazz Chants® books, all published by Oxford University Press.