In this page you’ll find the most comprehensive bibliography ever written about TEFL and young learners.

Photocopiable and Printable Books for Primary English.

• Toth: Children’s Games. MacMillan- Heinemann
• Paul: Sons and Games for Children. MacMillan- Heinemann.
• Holderness/ Hugues: 100 + Ideas for Children. MacMillan- Heinemann.
• Various artists: Primary Hits. MacMillan- Heinemann.
• Granger: Play Games with English 1. MacMillan- Heinemann.
• Granger: 1000 Pictures for Teachers to Copy. Nelson.
• Hadfield: Elementary Vocabulary Games. Pearson Longman.
• Hadfield: Elementary Grammar Games. Pearson Longman.
• Hadfield: Beginners’ Communication Games. Pearson Longman.
• Palmer: Blueprints Festivals. Stanley Thornes.
• Hadfield: Elementary Communication Games. Pearson Longman.
• Hadfield: Writing Games. Pearson Longman.
• Palim/ Power: Jamboree. Pearson Longman.
• Nixon/ Tomlinson: Primary Activity Box. Cambridge University Press.
• Nixon/ Tomlinson: Primary Communication Box. Reading Activities and puzzles for younger learners. Cambridge University Press.
• Nixon/ Tomlinson: Primary Communication Box. Speaking and listening activities for younger learners. Cambridge University Press.
• Nixon/ Tomlinson: Primary Grammar Box. Cambridge University Press.
• Nixon/ Tomlinson: Primary Pronunciation Box. Cambridge University Press.
• Nixon/ Tomlinson: Primary Reading Box. Cambridge University Press.
• Nixon/ Tomlinson: Primary Vocabulary Box. Cambridge University Press.
• Greenwood: Activity Box. Cambridge University Press.
• Gray: Jet Primary Teachers’ Resource Book 1,2 & 3. Delta Publishing.
• Chaves/Graham/Superfine: Fun and Games in English. Delta Publishing.
• Birdsall: Festivals and Special Days in Britain. Delta Publishing.
• Marks: Puzzle Time for Starters, Movers and Fliers. Delta Publishing.
• Thomas: Picture Prompts: Clothes. Delta Publishing.
• Thomas: Picture Prompts: Prepositions and Directions. Delta Publishing.
• James/Superfine: Telling Tales in English. Delta Publishing.
• Lambert/Pelteret: J.E.T: Speaking Activities. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Hughes: J.E.T: Songs & Rhymes. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Mourão: J.E.T.: Real Books! In the Primary Classroom. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Myles: J.E.T: Mini Book Makers. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Beddall: J.E.T: Drama in the Classroom. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Graham: J.E.T: Clifford Songs and Chants. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Finnie/ Bourdais: Timesaver Vocabulary Activities (Elementary). Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Degnan-Veness: Timesaver Grammar Activities (Elementary). Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Fletcher/ Munns: Timesaver Visual Grammar. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Hardy-Gould: Timesaver Project Work. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Pelteret/ Punja: New Timesaver for English Teachers. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Myles: Timesaver Games. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Greet: Timesaver Elementary Listening. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Myles: Timesaver Read and React. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Ford/ King: Timesaver for real! English in Everyday Situations. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Berwick/ Thorne: Timesaver Writing Activities. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Sweeney: English Activities to Photocopy: Draw & Write. Mary Glasgow Magazines.
• Myles: Kids Only: Crazy Pictures. Mary Glasgow Magazine
• Myles: Kids Only: Get the Picture. Mary Glasgow Magazine.
• Myles: Kids Only: Songs, Chants & Action Rhymes (5 packs). Mary Glasgow Magazine.
• Johnston: Listening Activities (elementary). European Language Institute.
• Farrell: Vocabulary Builder 1. ELI.
• English with Crosswords 1& 2. Photocopiable edition. ELI.
• Easy Games in English. ELI
• Ellis/ Brewster: Tell it Again! Penguin English Photocopiables. Pearson Longman.
• Graham-Marr/Saito: Photocopiable Pairworks for Children. ABAX.
• Bazo/ Hernandez/Peñate: Think in English A & B. Oxford University Press.
• Grupo Eledos: De dos en dos. Actividades para el aula de inglés. Longman.
• Fletcher: Pictures of English Tenses for Young Learners. Brain Friendly Publications
• Gerngross/ Puchta: Do and Understand. Longman.

Reference Books related to Young Learners

General Handbooks

• Halliwell,S: Teaching English in the Primary Classroom. Longman Pearson.
• Moon, J: Children Learning English. MacMillan Heinemann.
• Brunfit/ Moon/Tongue: Teaching English to Children. Longman.
• Cameron,L : Teaching Languages to Young Learner. Cambridge University Press.
• Vale/ Feunteun: Teaching Children English. Cambridge University Press
• Phillips,S: Young Learners. Oxford University Press.
• Pinter, A: Teaching Young Language Learners. Oxford University Press.
• Schinke-Llano/ Rauff: New Ways in Teaching Young Children. TESOL.
• Van Oort, H: Challenging Children. Delta Publishing.
• Brewster/ Ellis: The Primary English Teacher’s Guide. Penguin Longman.
• Argondizzo, C: Children in Action. Prentice Hall.
• Scott/ Ytreberg: Teaching English to Children. Longman
• Kennedy/ Jarvis: Ideas and Issues in Primary ELT. Nelson.
• Curtain/ Pesola: Languages and Children: Making the Match. Longman.
• Rigg/ Enright (Ed.): Children and ESL: Integrating Perspectives. TESOL.
• Rixon, S: Young Learners of English: Some Research Perspectives. Longman.
• Enright/ McCloskey: Integrating English. Addison- Wesley.
• Davies Samway/ McKeon: Common Threads of Practice. Teaching English to Children…TESOL.
• Genesee, F (ED.): Educating Second Language Children. Cambridge University Press.
• Holden, S (Ed): Teaching Children. Modern English Publications.
• McCloskey/ Orr/Dolitsky(Ed): Teaching English As a Foreign Language in Primary Schools.TESOL.
• Rixon,S: Teaching English to Young Learners. Modern English Publishing.
• Hughes, A: How to teach Young Learners. Pearson Longman. (Not yet published)
• House, S: An Introduction to Teaching English to Children. Richmond.
• Cant/ Superfine: Developing Resources for Primary. Richmond.
• Read, C: 500 Activities for the Primary Classrom. McMillan
• Asher J.J: Learning Another Language Through Actions. Sky Oaks Productions, Inc.
• Dunn, O: Beginning English with Young Children. MacMillan.
• Dunn, O: Developing English with Young Children. MacMillan.
• Bright Ideas Teacher Handbooks Language Resources. Scholastic.
• Grundy, P: Beginners. Oxford University Press.
• Linse, C.T.: Practical English Language Teaching: Young Learners. McGraw Hill.
• Cameron, Lynne & McKay, Penny.: Bringing creative teaching into the young learner classroom. OUP

Very Young Learners

• Reilly/ Ward: Very Young Learners. Oxford University Press.
• Roth, G: Teaching Very Young Children. Richmond.
• Slattery, M.: Teaching with Bear. Oxford University Press.

Specialised

Assessment

• MCay, P: Assessing Young Language Learners. Cambridge University Press.
• Ioannou-Georgiou/ Pavlou: Assessing Young Learners. Oxford University Press.
• Heaton, J.B: Classroom Testing. Longman.
• Lazaro, L et al.: Acquisition and Assessment of Communicative Skills. Universidad de Alcalá.
• Harris & McCann: Assessment. Heinemann.
• WEIR,C. J: (1990). Communicative Language Testing. Prestince Hall.
• ANDERSON & BERETTA (Eds.) Evaluating Second Language Education. Cambridge University Press.
• Torrance, H Ed. : Evaluating Authentic Assessment. Open University Press.

Stories

• Ellis/ Brewster: The Storytelling Handbook for Primary Teachers. Penguin.
• Wright, A: Storytelling with Children. Oxford University Press.
• Morgan/Rinvolucri: Once Upon a Time. Cambridge University Press.
• Whright, A: Creating Stories with Children. Oxford University Press.
• Wajnryb, R: Stories. Narrative activities in the language classroom. Cambridge University Press.
• Taylor, E.K: Using Folktales. Cambridge University Press.
• Paran/ Watts Edit.: Storytelling in ELT. IATEFL.
• Watts, E: Storytelling. Oxford Basics for Children. OUP.
• Zaro/Salaberri: Contando Cuentos. Heinemann.

Games

• Lewis / Bedson: Games for Children. Oxford University Press.
• McCallum: 101 Word Games. Oxford University Press.
• Lee, W.R: Language Teaching Games and Contests. Oxford University Press.
• Mildford, A: New Bright Ideas: 10-Minute Games. Scholastic.
• Wright/ Betteridge/Buckby: Games for Language Learning. Cambridge University Press.
• Martin, M: Young Pathfinder 2: Games & Fun Activities. CILT.
• Retter/ Valls: Bonanza: 77 English Language Games for Young Learners. Longman.
• Kaye, P: Games for Learning. Noonday.
• Howard-Williams, D: Word Games with English. Heinemann.
• McKay/ Guse: Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners. Cambridge Handbooks for language teachers.CUP

Drama and Role Plays

• Phillips, S: Drama with Children. Oxford Universtity Press.
• Maley/ Duff: Drama Techniques in Language Learning: A Resource Book of Communicative Activities for Language Teachers. Cambridge University Press.
• McCaslin, N: Creative Drama in the Classroom and beyond. Longman.
• Wessels, C: Drama. Oxford University Press.
• Rooyarckers, P et al.:101 More Drama Games for Children. Hunter House.
• Scher/ Verrall: 100+ Ideas for Drama. Heinemann.
• Cassady, M: Acting Games: Improvisations and Exercises. Meriwether Publishing.
• MORRIS & MORT (1990) Learning through Play. Bright Ideas for Early years. Scholastic.

Classroom English

• Slattery/ Willis: English for Primary Teachers. Oxford University Press.
• Willis, J: Teaching English Through English. Longman.
• Hughes, G.S: A Handbook of Classroom English. Oxford University Press.
• SALABERRI, S. (1993). Uso del inglés en el aula. Heinemann

Tools and teaching techniques or methods.

• Gerngross & Puchta: Pictures in Action. Prentice Hall.
• Wright, A: Pictures for Language Learning. Cambridge University Press.
• Wright /Haleem: Visuals for the Language Classroom. Longman.
• Dobbs, J: Using the Board in the Language Classroom. Cambridge University Press.
• Davis & Rinvolucri: Dictation. Cambridge Universtiy Press.
• Phillips, Burwood & Dunford: Projects with Young Learners. Oxford University Press.
• Whiteford & Fitzsimmons: Bright Ideas: Display. Scholastic.
• Estaire/Zanon: Planning Classwork. A Task Based approach. Heinemann.
• Willis, J: A Framework for Task-Based Learning. Longman.
• Cambell, C /Kryszewska, H: Learner-Based Teaching. Oxford University Press.
• ALLAN, M: (1985). Teaching English with Video. Longman.
• Sherman, J: Using Authentic Video in the Language Classroom. Cambridge University Press.
• COOPER /LAVERY/ RINVOLUCRI: (1991). Video. Oxford University Press.
• Kenworthy, J: Language in Action. Longman.
• Willis/Paterson: English Through Music. Oxford Basics for Children. OUP
• Moir, N.: Starting and Ending Lessons. Oxford basics for children. OUP

Grammar and vocabulary.

• Lewis, G & Mol, H.: Grammar for Young Learners. Oxford University Press.
• Slatery, M.: Vocabulary Activities. Oxford basics for children. OUP
• Harmer, J.: Teaching and Learning Grammar. Longman keys to languange teaching

English, Primay Education & Technology

• Bennet, R: Using ICT in Primary English Teaching. Learning Matters.
• Bennet, R: Learning ICT with English. David Fulton Publishers.
• Dudeney & Hockly: How to Teach English with Technology. Pearson Longman.
• Dudeney, G: The Internet and the Language Classroom. Cambridge University Press.
• Elston, C: Using ICT in the Primary School. Paul Chapman Publishing.
• Lewis, G: The Internet and Young Learners. Oxford University Press.
• Lewis, G.: Bringing Technology into the Classroom. Oxford University Press.
• Rudd & Tyldesley: Literacy and ICT in the Primary School. David Fulton Publishers.
• Loveless & Dore (Ed.): ITC in the Primary School. Open University Press.
• Trythall, A: The Little Book of ICT. Featherstone Education.
• Sharp J et alia: Primary ICT: Knowledge, Understanding and Practice. Learning Matters.
• Sharma & Barrett: Blended Learning. Using Tech in and beyong the language classroom. Macmillan.
• Leask / Meadows: Teaching and Learning with ICT in the Primary School. Routledge Falmer.

Mixed Ability and Diversity

• Billbrough, N: Memory Activities for Language Learning. Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teacher Develorpment
• Haslam/Wilkin/ Kellet: English as an Additional Language. David Fulton Publishers.
• Tice, J: The Mix Ability Class. Richmond Publishing.
• Promodou, L:Mixed Ability Classes. Phoenix.
• Willing, K: Teaching How to Learn. NCELTR.
• Gibbons, P: Learning to Learn in a Second Language. Heinemann.

Language & Psychology

• Donaldson M: Children’s Minds. Fontana Press.
• Ellis/ Sinclair: Learning to Learn English. Cambridge University Press.
• Fisher, R: Teaching Children to Think. Nelson Thornes.
• Fisher, R: Teaching Children to Learn. Nelson Thornes.
• Lightbown/ Spada: How Languages are Learned. Oxford University Press.
• Vygotsky, L.S: Mind in Society. Harvard University Press.
• Williams/ Burden: Psychology for Language Teachers. Cambridge University Press.
• Wood, D: How Children Think and Learn. Blackwell.

Language  Learning Skills.

• Reilly & Reilly: Writing with Children. Oxford University Press.
• Tann, S: Developing Language in the Primary Classroom. Cassell Education.
• Svecova, H: Listen and Do. Oxford Basics for Children. OUP.
• Bringing extensive reading into the classroom.Oxford University Press

Classroom Management & General Primary Teaching Skills.

• Byrne, D: Techniques for Classroom Interaction. Longman.
• Underwood, M: Effective Class Management. Longman.
• Croll / Hastings (ED.) : Effective Primary Teaching. David Fulton Publishers.
• Wragg, E.C: Primary Teaching Skills. Routledge Falmer.
• Kyriacou, C: Essential Teaching Skills. Nelson Thornes.
• Proctor, A et Al.: Learning to Teach in the Primary Classroom. Routledge Falmer.
• Pollard/ Tann: Reflective Teaching in the Primary School. Cassell Education.
• Cullingford, C (Ed.) : The Primary Teacher. Cassell Education.
• Cullingford, C (Ed.) : The Inner World of the School. Cassell
• Nitsche, P.: Talk less. Teach more! Pearls of Learning Press.

General Linguistics Bibliography

Second Language Acquisition

Skills

Grammar & Vocabulary