“My favorite things” is far from your average writing course! It’s a digital course that includes cartoon animations and teaches young learners to craft paragraphs about things that they like. The instructor, Gahmya Drummond-Bey, has taught this course live for over five years in South Korea. The same curriculum can be used for students as young as five and as old as nine because it teaches the foundation of paragraph writing. In fact, it’s so simple, yet results producing, that many parents have admitted using it to study themselves. This course is especially useful for children who are learning English as their second language.

Tip: When using this course, be sure to encourage your child to interact with the teacher. Stand up. Answer the questions. Read your paragraph aloud. Talk to the screen. Enjoy the experience. High-five your child and offer lots of praise for being active.

COURSE DESCRIPTION (for kids):

Hello! “Welcome to Writing Class!” I’m your teacher, Gahmya! You can call me, “Gahmya Teacher!” I’m so excited to teach you how to write well because writing is so much fun! Okay, if you think writing is boring, let’s try it together! Do you know that some of the smartest people in the world exercise their brains by writing? It’s true! Scientists, Doctors, Teachers, Fashion Designers, and even Singers write their ideas in books or magazines so that their ideas can live forever! That’s the great thing about writing. If you learn to write well, you can write your ideas and stories. Then, people can read them forever! That’s so amazing!

So, come on! Let’s learn to write about some of our favorite things together! Let’s go!