Frequently Asked Questions

Easy English NEWS is now published by Pifer-Brigham. Many of my writings are in it. Click here for information and to order

Our list price is the school price

No. Just the full title will do. We are not so big

If you’ve received the wrong book, call us, and let us know. We will send the correct book to you.

If the books won't work for your classes, send them back to us using any method you'd like. Media mail is the least expensive option, costing $3-5. Include your name or institution’s name (Whichever paid for the books). When we receive the book(s), we will refund the money to you or to your institution. If it was paid by credit card, we will refund it to your credit card.

Contact ESL@elizabethclaire.com with titles you desire and the quantities

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ESL Teacher’s Activities Kit

There is a plan for book 6, Building Words, but it is still on the back burner. It covers plurals, possessive forms, silent letters, verb forms with ing and ed, compound words, and contractions.

Book 7 of ESL Phonics focuses on homonyms (bat, bat), homophones (bare. Bear), and homographs (sow, sow, read, read).

Yes, it’s the same. It was originally published by Harcourt Brace, but when they ended their elementary ESL division, they gave me my rights back. I changed the name because some teachers thought the book was similar to Where Is Waldo? I wanted to have a title that told more of what the story is about.

Some are, some are not:

You may photocopy sufficient copies for your own classes the following:

- The game pages of ESL Teacher’s Activities Kit (NOT the whole book!)
- All of ESL Teacher’s Holiday Activities Kit, Classroom teacher’s ESL Survival Kits # 1 and # 2 and Just-A-Minute! may be photocopied
- Your Health by Dr. Ali
- The Treasure Chest
- Feel free to make copies or change to MP3 of the Audio CDs for ESL Phonics for All Ages

The other books are NOT photocopiable except for Fair Use:
- Sample chapters and units posted at this website may be photocopied
- Fair Use Law allows you to photocopy one unit from each of the American Manners and Customs books, one chapter from Kristina, 1904
- The rest of the ESL Phonics books, ESL Wonder Workbooks, and Three Little Words are protected by copyright. They work best when a student can actually write in and keep the books.

If you wish to photocopy more pages than the above “Fair Use” please contact me at ESL@elizabethclaire.com with your reasons and for permission

The audience for Kristina is for readers from ages eleven to adult, who can read at a high intermediate level of English. So, it’s for native English speakers, too

So far, there is no Teacher’s Guide for Kristina. Sorry

If there are many requests for a particular book, I get the energy to write it. In life, Kristina’s three sisters come one by one to the United States and the four of them enjoy many activities in New York City on their days off. Kristina learns English and gets a better job. At 18, she marries and moves with her husband to Pennsylvania, where he becomes a coal miner, and they undergo hardships there

The short vowels are difficult for English language learner to distinguish. They can easily hear the difference between the five long vowels. E does not sound like A, I, or O. But with sixteen short vowel sounds, pin and pen might sound the same to beginning English learner. The sound of a in hat is difficult to distinguish from o in hot, or u in hut, as most other languages do not have an ae sound. The books are ordered the way they are because easy sounds come before difficult sounds