

Burton School is a small single-room classroom in South Korea that offers primary students (grades 1 to 3) an engaging English language learning experience. We are a content-based school that works to make language learning more visible through the application of student-centered activities with scaffolding for language usage, processes, skills, and social interactions.

Our Vision

to engage, express and enjoy an English experience through interactions
Our Experience
- To stimulate the five senses into taking action
- To model positive feedback through comprehensible reactions and language
- To raise awareness for how our reactions and language inform our interactions
Levels

Level 1 - Novice Low
Level 1 students have had some exposure to English at kindergarten or primary school. They may be able to name letters, say letter sounds, read a few short words, sing parts of songs and use a few practiced patterns. They have extremely low language usage skills and require high scaffolding during activities. Level 1 students need exercises, activities, and tasks with visible step-by-step interactions to scaffold patterns in use.
Level 2 - Novice Intermediate
Level 2 students have some autonomy encoding and decoding Level 1 words and patterns words. They can write some words by memory and use phonics to encode/decode words. They have had exposure to various content types, recycled topics, words, and patterns, but they require a lot of scaffolding to apply language to the tasks. They may be able to use short patterns between 3 to 5 words at different moments but cannot negotiate each subtask in English only.
Level 3 - Novice High
Level 3 students are familiar with various exercises, activities, and tasks. They can read, write, listen and talk about the content with less teacher support while utilizing more alternative inputs (text, media, songs, etc.). They can link ideas together when situations are known and predictable. They are better at answering questions than asking questions. They can achieve higher accuracy and fluency through practiced contexts but struggle in new content types and situations.
Monthly Schedule and Content Road Map
Breakdown
- Classes 16 * 40 minutes
- Sequences
- Seasons 1 and 2
- Lessons 1→ 2→ 3→ 4 →5 →6→ 7→ 8 and 9
- Exercise, Activities and Tasks – A → B→ C→ D→ →E→ F→ G
- Four Skills
- About the Library and Content
- About Songs –
- Images and Text
- Phonics
- Read
May
- Fluency Development
- Review 1 – At School and Brown Bears
- Review 2 – Our Class and Hansel & Gretel
- Review 3 – Coming in 2024
August
- Fluency Development
- Review – Cookie Man and Hungry Monster
- Review – Hannah and Grace
- Review – Coming in 2024
February
- Fluency Development
- Review 1 – Bad Witch and Red Hen
- Review 2 – Neven and Goldilocks
- Review –
Content Library
My Teaching

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General Practices
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