Family & Friends
Kids Club English Resources
Find more printable and digital resources to help you practise family and friends language on these story resource pages:
Friendship songs
Family songs
Stories
Invisible Boy
Find engaging crafts, games, printables and related songs and storytelling videos for your ESL kids classes with Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig and Patrice Barton.
The Three Little Pigs | ESL Resources
This classic is great for preschool and lower primary. Find loads of resources, songs and videos to help you teach useful phrases and ordinals, materials, language for intentions and refusals and much more.
The Rabbit Listened | ESL Story resources
A lovely story about coping with feelings and how to be a good friend. Easy for kids to relate to, this story is great for developing emotional awareness, and language related to feelings and typical behaviour.
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood is a classic that most children know. Apart from exploring the possible messages in the story, kids can learn about family, emotions, nature and body parts.
Peace at Last
Will Daddy Bear get some sleep?!
Peace at last is perfect for practising house and home vocabulary. This page also includes a fun video about Steve’s house.
Stick Man
Will Stick Man make it back to his family for Christmas?
Focus on family, weather, seasons and animals vocabulary. It’s also a great story for describing purpose. What uses can they imagine for a stick?
Rainbow Fish
A beautiful story about sharing and friends. The story lends itself well to colour and number vocabulary. How many scales does the Rainbow fish have? How many special scales do the other fish have?
The Giving Tree
A beautiful story about generosity and helping others. Follow the life of the boy and his relationship with the tree. A bit more serious than most children’s stories, but definitely a valuable one. Talk about helping others, nature and/or family & friends.
The Enormous Turnip
A classic story that is full of useful repetition. See our resources for helping kids acquire language related to friends and family, pets and food. Teaching with this story is great for learning lots of useful phrases too.
The Cow That Went Oink
A wonderful story about a cow and a pig who are different from the rest. Great to talk about the importance of not laughing at others for being different. Kids can learn useful farm animal vocabulary and language to talk about feelings and emotions.
We’re Going On A Bear Hunt
One of our favourites, this story captivates little (and not so little!) minds. Rich in language, kids will learn useful phrases and language to talk about feelings, nature, family & friends and more.
Penguin
A lovely story about a boy who gets a penguin for a present. it ties in very nicely to Christmas or other celebrations with gift giving. Connect to topics of friendship and expressing feelings and emotions.
