THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE

                          What are the tools of the trade?

      The tools of the trade are useful materials you can use in your classes. Since the physical world is the main means of sending messages to young children, here we have some important tools we used in our teaching practices.

According to our experience, we are classifying the tools in two categories: USEFUL AND USELESS

USEFUL	USELESS
- PUPETS - PAPER DOLLS - PICTURE CARDS - CARD GAMES - BUILDING BLOCKS - TOYS - ENGLISH CORNER - BOOKS	- CARDBOARD GAMES - WORD SENTENCE CARDS - OVERHEAD PROJECTOR - CASSETE RECORDERS - CLOCK - CALENDAR - WORD DISPLAY - WORD CARD DISPLAY

     

We classified those tools as useful because of the age the kids we taught was. By being 4, 5, and 6 years old, they need to acquire the language through playing and having fun with different things.

And we consider that the “useless” are not age appropriate for the kids because most of them can barely read words but not sentences.