Website+evaluation

Dear All, Thank you for the job you’ve done evaluating the sites to use with young learners. Below is the list of the online materials with your commentaries: aimed at teachers young ESL learners useful for teaching reading lots of downloadable materials ||  || Free resources for parents || Doesn’t cater much for primary learners’ needs ||
 * = **Web-site** ||= **Reasons to use** ||= **Things to consider** ||
 * BBC Little Animals Activity Centre || * Trustful
 * Easy to navigate
 * Relevant content
 * supports different learning styles
 * Sound and rhyming games at t//he Digby Mole//
 * Animal rhymes of the //Foxy Dancer// ||  ||
 * Starfall || Factual and accurate content
 * Yahoo!Kids || * educational and entertaining
 * stimulates self study || * not much of the content can be used with primary learners
 * hard to navigate ||
 * Fisher Price || * Entertaining and attractive
 * Downloadable materials available
 * Learners can post comments || * Commercial site aimed at parents of infants, pre-schoolers
 * the games are irrelevant to learning English ||
 * British Council LearnEnglish Kids || great web resource for ESL teachers ||  ||
 * Enchanted learning ||  || Requires subscription and payment ||
 * Puzzle Maker || Ready-made lesson plans
 * BBC Story Time || * reliable
 * accurate
 * aimed at children, their parents and teachers;
 * focus on story-telling;
 * good for different learning styles
 * all links up-to-date ||  ||
 * Phonetics Focus || * reliable, accurate
 * all links up-to-date
 * lots of activities
 * aimed at ESL learners
 * contains links and references to other materials
 * educational focus on pronunciation;
 * good for different learning styles
 * has a design and print own flashcards features || contains adverts related to the topic ||
 * Genki English || * Helps teachers make lessons bright and interesting
 * activities are provided with detailed explanation tips, video examples, printable lesson plans
 * explicit methodological focus with information and tips on different topics
 * has a search facility;
 * quickly downloaded
 * a lot of free materials ||  ||