My name is William Stark

and I am the creator of the Kid’s Talk English learning series for preschool children ages 3 to 6. I created this program over 18 years ago due to what I felt was a lack of satisfactory learning materials available for the kindergarten classroom. I was in search of something that could be used in a classroom setting of 20 to 30 students that was not just age-appropriate but also entertaining for both the students and teacher. I would appreciate a moment of your time to describe our materials in hope that it will be useful for your situation as well.

I understand that finding a good children’s program is often a daunting task. In my experience I have found that the reason many kindergarten English programs fail is because of difficult and complex curriculums that are non age-appropriate and neither entertaining for the students nor the teachers. I feel that my program has uncovered a solution to that problem. Not just have our students over the years shown enthusiasm for our learning series but our teachers have praised our teaching methods and materials over the years, and the parents as well.

       Our course is divided into two textbooks with accompanying CDs.

The focus of Book 1 is the introduction of basic communication skills, with

Book 2 continuing this foundation on a more advanced level.

Kids Talk Book 1 is for 3-4 year olds. Topics covered include the Alphabet, Days of the week, Weather, Colors, Numbers, Family, Feelings, Body, Actions, Toys, Animals, Opposites, Fruit, Bugs and Jungle animals. All these topics are presented in a colorful and lively format in a compact and easy to use book.

Kids Talk Book 2 is for 5-6 year olds. Topics include the Alphabet (i.e. letter sounds), Months, Seasons, Vegetables, Clothes, Places, Flags, Sports, Food, Drinks, Actions, Musical instruments, People, Birds and Flags 2.

Book 2  introduces the students to more complex sentence and question forms.

        Accompanying both books is a CD of 16 topic-relevant songs that each emphasize their own target phrase or sentence. For example, the teaching of the  “I like” pattern is included in the color song. All music, tested in the actual classroom before being recorded, is targeted for successful age-appropriate English communication. Both CDs contain completely original arrangements music incorporating well-known musical styles, such as Blues, Jazz, Latin, African, Rock and Funk. They were recorded and produced in America using professional musicians and American children providing narration. Our vocals on the Cd’s are done by Frank Leto a well-known children’s musician for Montessori school in America.

        Our goal in this 3-year program is the children’s ability to interact in basic communicative English using age appropriate sentences, words and phrases. Over the years our teachers have continuously given satisfactory feedback for the program, citing its easy to use and well-structured format. Our series has also been continuously well received by our kindergartens and parents. We’ve been particularly proud of our success in the bigger classes of 20 to 30 children. Our program is currently being used by 20 kindergartens located in Asia and Europe.