Lesson Breakdown: How to Build an Engaging Lesson Flow

Join international teachers in exploring how to design an effective English lesson — from Warmer to Recap! In this video, we analyze Teacher Nora’s real…

Inductive Grammar Teaching

Grammar can be taught through various approaches. Today, with trainer Nadia, we’ll explore two effective methods—the Audiolingual Method and the Direct Method—as she demonstrates practical…

Trailer Twinkl x HTA - Assessing Student Language

In this workshop, we will delve into practical assessment approaches that are crucial for evaluating where your students are in the language acquisition stage, especially…

Trailer Developing Learning Habits for Lifelong Success

Many students face obstacles that hinder their progress, such as procrastination, lack of focus, or a fixed mindset. As educators, it’s our role to help…

Building Strong Sentence Foundations

Help students strengthen their sentence-building skills with this interactive method! By typing out parts of a sentence and having students draw lines to connect them,…

Choosing the Right Resource

What are some key elements you look for in high-quality teaching resources. HTA team shares their thoughts on adapting online resources for online teaching, focusing…

PPP Methods in action!

Presentation, Practice, and Produce is a dynamic and effective method for introducing grammar—especially for learners who excel by making their own connections. This approach not…

Reacting to Grammar with Color Semantics Part 2

Color Semantics is an excellent way to practice speaking and understanding grammar structures. Pairing it with visuals makes the approach more contextual and helps students…

Question Word Guided Conversation

Structured speaking is an effective way to prepare students for real conversational practice. By encouraging them to express their own thoughts and opinions—while gently guiding…

Question Word Guided Conversation

Having students switch roles to ask and answer questions is an effective way to encourage conversational practice. In today’s lesson breakdown trainer Shande reacts to…

Assessing Language Skills: Practical Strategies for New Students

Get a sneak peek at the full training session! In this short excerpt, Trainer Shande reviews a real classroom moment where Twinkl resources are used…

Building Rapport to Confidence

In this inspiring lesson moment, Teacher Kiki transforms assessment into a heartfelt exchange. Using a clever scaffolding activity, she guides her student to describe both…

Comparison Activities to Mastering Sentences

Practicing sentence structures can be quite boring for students, especially when it involves simple repetition. Here is an example of a short activity you can…

Scaffolding Strategies for Building Strong Sentences

Trainer Nadia walks us through some core scaffolding techniques to help students with word order, sentence structure, and sentence building. These quick activities are ones…

How to Make Your Online Classroom Pop!

Your teaching space plays a crucial role in online lessons. You want to present yourself well while incorporating props and useful items that enhance the…

Mastering the Sketchboard

Unlock the full potential of ClassIn’s Sketchboard with this in-depth tutorial! Get an exclusive look at how students experience activities firsthand while learning how to…

Learning Through Tic-Tac-Toe

Tic-Tac-Toe is a popular game among students, and it’s simple to set up, killing two birds with one stone! With just a few tools, you…

Phonics Climb: The Beanstalk Challenge

In this clip, trainer Melissa demonstrates the interactive Beanstalk Activity—a fun and engaging way to review, introduce, or practice phonics vocabulary. Add your leaves and…

Key Elements of an Effective Maze Activity

In this ClassIn tutorial, Teacher Shande analyzes a maze activity, breaking down key elements and how they impact student engagement and learning. Learn how to…

Choosing the Perfect Maze for Your Lessons

Discover how to choose the perfect maze to make sentence-building fun and engaging for your students! In this tutorial, Shande walks you through the key…

Interactively Engaging Students (Clip)

It can be difficult to keep young learners interested, but adding play to lessons—especially with fun tools on interactive platforms—can make learning exciting and help…

Interactively Engaging Students

Keeping young learners engaged can be a challenge, but incorporating play into lessons—especially through interactive platforms—can transform the classroom into a space of excitement and…

Fostering Student-Led Conversation Practice

In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore how to create a classroom where students lead the conversation. You’ll learn strategies to boost speaking fluency, build confidence,…

Teacher Grammar Using Advanced Approaches

In this workshop, you’ll experience hands-on activities with methods like Audio-Lingual, Direct Method, PPP, Inductive/Deductive, and Task-Based Learning. Walk away with a ready-to-use toolkit to…

Reacting to Grammar with Color Semantics Part 1

Color Semantics is a fantastic way to guide younger students through sentence structure and parts of speech—but everyone has to start somewhere. Watch as Trainer…

Conversational Practice Through Question Words

Interactive Q&As are a fun and effective way to get students asking questions, sparking conversation, and getting to know each other. And what better topic…

Decoding Success: Language Assessment Strategies

Assessing students can be an emotional journey, especially when meeting them for the first time. Understanding the significance of evaluating their language skills helps shape…

Ship or Sheep - Why Phonics Matters

Phonics plays a vital role in teaching English, as it bridges the gap between letters and their sounds, enabling learners to decode words effectively and…

The Hidden Word Search — Guiding Students to Success

Scavenger hunts are a favorite among teachers in both online and offline classrooms. Typically, parts of sentences or vocabulary are hidden around the learning space,…

Dice Bingo for Quick Word Decoding Practice

In this video, Nadia uses a quick, low-prep game of Dice Bingo to target the “ch” digraph and strengthen her student’s phonics and decoding skills.…

CVC Magic: Blend, Read, Play!

During a live reading lesson, teacher AC had a distracted student that needed some reading practice. She then pauses to guide a quick CVC blending…

Introducing CVC to Young Learners

Reading instruction can feel overwhelming for young learners—but with thoughtful planning and clear objectives, you can introduce foundational reading skills in a supportive way. Using…

Assessing Language Skills: Practical Strategies for New Students

In this workshop, we will delve into practical assessment approaches that are crucial for evaluating where your students are in the language acquisition stage, especially…

Developing Learning Habits for Lifelong Success

Many students face obstacles that hinder their progress, such as procrastination, lack of focus, or a fixed mindset. As educators, it’s our role to help…

Building Strong Foundations_ Teaching Sentence Formation and Word Order

This video shows some highlights from our recent workshop, “Building Strong Foundations: Teaching Sentence Formation and Word Order.” In this session, teachers explored fun and…

Fruit Frames and Domino Games

Teaching grammar doesn’t have to mean repeating after the teacher or slogging through worksheets. By pairing lessons with familiar games and activities, we can make…

The Power of Scaffolding

Teaching grammar takes many forms, but a common thread across worksheets and instructional materials is the use of sentence frames and other sentence-based activities. In…

Making Grammar Stick with Flashcard Activities (Part 2)

Grammar doesn’t have to be dry—bring it to life with emojis! Teachers can turn sentence-building into a playful, story-based activity using familiar icons. Emojis provide…

Making Grammar Stick with Flashcard Activities (Part 1)

Online teaching offers access to an extensive range of resources that can enrich our lessons—whether we’re designing engaging activities or illustrating key teaching points. In…

Reacting to Grammar with Color Semantics - Part 2

Grammar mastery starts with repetition and the right kind of guidance. In this video, we follow a teacher who has just introduced color semantics to…

Reacting to Grammar with Color Semantics - Part 1

Today we explore how color semantics can bring sentence structure to life for learners. Joined by a guest teacher, we dive into how full sentences…

Grammar That Sticks - The Power of Sentence-Based Grammar Teaching

Discover how sentence-based grammar instruction helps students deeply understand and retain grammar structures. This workshop introduces a 5-stage model (Input – Intake – Noticing –…

Food Graph Activity

Shan building a block graph on favorite foods

Wants and Needs Board

Hanje expanding with wants and needs on the board

Still Life Drawing

Tara asking her student to draw a still life painting and introduce his painting