Importance of  Hand Puppets in a ESL Classroom

Learning through play is fundamental to our young children's education, helping them to develop the necessary skills in life. Puppets can stimulate children's imagination, encourage creative play and discovery and are a wonderful interactive way to introduce narrative to even the most reluctant reader. They can be a powerful way of bringing story time to life; puppets can provide a focus for role play, encouraging the child's imagination and involvement in activities and can play a fundamental part in the recitation of stories and verse. In addition, hand puppets with workable mouths and tongues are an excellent motivational resource to inspire the teaching of phonics within literacy.  

Using hand puppets can help you as a teacher, to catch the attention of your students, also to teach them in a different, interesting and funny way, the only thing that you need is creativity and patience.