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The Kid Castle curriculum is well established in the form of texts and lesson aids for all its programs. While our teachers do not have to bring their own materials to Kid Castle, they would do well to bring along some ideas and creativity.

We supply teacher's books that present lesson outlines and suggest activities to practice the lesson's objectives, but only the teacher knows what works best for his or her individual class. This knowledge can be more valuable than what one could glean from any book.

In both the language school and preschool, the focus of our curriculum is on spoken rather than written English. Students start with the ABCs and progress on to more advanced conversation and grammar patterns during their time with us. Naturally, the curriculum is tailored to suit the age of the students. This can be seen in the accompanying examples of pages from our textbooks.

For a preschool class, the foreign teacher will often teach the students a letter or two from the alphabet, a corresponding vocabulary word and some basic conversation patterns. Because the students in this program are younger, the games and activities we employ to practice the lesson's material are easy to understand and play. Our goal is to give the students a solid base in English, so review is an important and ongoing facet to our program.

At Kid Castle preschools, we teach a variety of subjects to the students in addition to English. These include Chinese, math, science, PE, music, art and computers. A foreign teacher can expect to teach more than just English, but, don't panic, you will not have to teach Chinese.

For a language school class, the foreign teacher's main objective is to strengthen the students' English speaking and listening skills. Conversations and dialogues form the
crux of these lessons, but the teacher may also instruct the students in grammar, phonics and writing. Although the students in our language school program are older than preschool students, games, activities and review are still important aspects to the lesson.

In both systems our mascot, Chevady will be found as well as a host of other characters. To the right is Kimberly from our Happy Chat series.

No matter what level of students or from what text you are teaching, the Kid Castle curriculum gives you the freedom to present and practice the material as you see fit.