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Television Programs to improve an English Learner’s fluency It is important for children to begin their journey as learners of the in the most fun, but simultaneously educational, way. For children under the age of 7: These English TV programs will really help with your child’s fluency and are both age and level appropriate. Most of them can be found on either , , , , Disney XD, or . As always, we encourage that you use this list at your own discretion. It is suggestive, not a prescriptive list. Parents hold the responsibility to research and evaluate whether a show is suitable for their child. 1. 22. Scooby Doo, where 44. PJMasks 2. SpongeBob are you? 45. Mission Force One SquarePants 23. The Flintstones 46. 3. Arthur 24. 47. Tigger and Pooh 4. Magic School Bus 25. 48. Henry 5. Peppa Pig 26. The Care HuggleMonster 6. Bob the Builder 27. The Muppet Show 49. 7. Thomas the Train 28. Dennis the Menace 50. She-ra and The 8. 29. George of the Princesses of 9. Fairly Odd Parents Jungle Power 10. Dexter’s 30. Inspector Gadget 51. Ask the Story Bots Laboratory 31. Pokémon 52. BeatBugs 11. Curious George 32. Wunchpunch 53. Kipo and the Age 12. The Powerpuff 33. Barbie: Life in the of the Girls Dreamhouse Wonderbeasts 13. 34. Lazy Town 54. The Boss Baby: Clubhouse 35. Back in Business 14. Blue’s Clues 36. 55. The Who Was? 15. Recess 37. Yin Yang Yo! Show 16. 38. Digimon 56. Hotel Transylvania: 17. Barney & 39. My Little Pony The Series 18. 40. The Lionguard 57. 19. 41. Jake and the 58. The Worst Witch 20. The Tom and Jerry Neverland Pirates 59. Show 42. 60. LoliRock 21. The Ducktales 43. Goldie and

For pre-teens/teenagers from ages 8 - 15: This wide range of TV shows both animated and live-action is perfect for pre-teens as well as teenagers. Most of these shows can be found on the Disney Channel, Netflix, Jetix, and other various streaming websites online. Please keep in mind that every child is different, and the goal is to get them to enjoy their use of English in their day-to-day life. So, communicate with your child, research a show and choose together something that they will enjoy. This list reflects the different personalities, interests, and ages of our students, and although not every title on here will be suitable for every student, we are certain everyone will find a few of interest.

1. W.I.T.C.H. 30. 60. Shaman King 2. American Dragon: Jake 31. Teen Titans 61. Teenage Mutant Ninja Long 32. Turtles 3. 33. 62. ! 4. Spiderman: The 34. Ed, Edd n’ Eddy 63. : The Last 35. Foster’s Home for Airbender 5. Imaginary Friends 64. Legends of the Hidden 6. 36. Justice League Temple 7. Totally Spies 37. The Life and Times of 65. iCarly 8. Huntik Juniper Lee 66. 9. Yu-gi-oh! 38. My Gym Partner is a 67. 10. Dragon Ball Monkey 68. 11. : The Animated 39. Big Hero 6: The Series 69. Boss Baby: Back in Series 40. K.C. Undercover Business 12. 41. 70. Academy 13. 42. 71. : Mission Critical 14. Jessie 43. Mako Mermaids 72. : Cali 15. 44. H2O: Just Add Water Style 16. The Suite Life of Zack and 45. Sailor 73. Violetta Cody 46. 74. Miraculous: Tales of Lady 17. 47. Bug and Cat Noir 18. 48. 75. Stuck in the Middle 19. Austin and Ally 49. Fresh Prince of Bell Air 76. 20. 50. Drake and Josh 77. Raven’s Home 21. 51. 78. 22. Shake it up 52. What’s with Andy? 79. Bunk’d 23. That’s so Raven! 53. 80. A.N.T. Farm 24. 54. Team Galaxy 81. 25. 55. Atom 82. 26. 56. 83. 27. Lizzie Mcguire 57. Adventures 84. Billie and the Ghost 28. The Emperor’s New 58. Ironman: The Armored 85. Fuller House School Adventures 29. 59. X-Men

Teenagers above the age of 16 - Adults: Please be advised that TV shows in these categories may include serious/ heavy themes or inappropriate images/ language and should be viewed at the watcher’s discretion. * starred TV shows may be inappropriate for audiences below 18 years of age. COMEDY 1. 21. Unbreakable Kimmy 37. Grimm* 2. Jane the virgin Schmidt* 38. Supernatural* 3. Ugly Betty 22. Sex Education* 39. The 100 4. 40. Gotham SUPERNATURAL/SCI-FI 5. The Office 41. Teen Wolf* 23. 6. The Good Place 42. Timeless 24. The Witcher* 7. Young Sheldon 43. The Umbrella Academy* 25. Supergirl 8. F.R.I.E.N.D.S. 44. Fringe 26. Arrow 9. Brooklyn 99 45. Merlin 27. 10. The Big Bang Theory 46. The Haunting of Hill House * 28. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow 11. Girl Boss 47. The Order 29. Cloak and Dagger 12. Everything Sucks 48. The Chilling Adventures of 30. Jessica Jones 13. New Girl Sabrina* 31. Luke Cage 14. * 49. Black Lightning 32. Marvel’s Iron Fist 15. How I Met your Mother 50. Smallville 33. Marvel’s Defenders 16. Glee 51. Lucifer* 34. Marvel’s agents of 17. Alexa and Katie 52. Preacher* S.H.I.E.L.D. 18. Parks and Recreation 53. The Good Witch 35. Shannara Chronicles 19. That 70’s Show 54. Black Mirror* 36. Once Upon a Time 20. Scrubs 55. Westworld CRIME/DETECTIVE/THRILLER 71. Sherlock 85. Veronica Mars 56. CSI (Miami, New York)* 72. Doctor Who 86. House of Cards 57. Blacklist* 73. Elementary 87. This is Us 58. NCIS* 74. 88. Dead to Me* 59. Mr. Robot 75. Limitless 89. Dirty John* 60. Dexter* 76. Gotham 90. You* 61. The Catch 77. Bates Motel* 91. Reign 62. Criminal Minds 78. American Horror Story* 92. 63. Scream Queens* 93. Unbelievable DRAMA 64. iZombie

65. White Collar 79. House MD 66. Suits 80. The Good Doctor NON-FICTION/ REALITY 67. Riverdale 81. A Series of Unfortunate 68. How to get away with Events 94. Master Chef murder * 82. The Crown 95. Cheer 69. American Crime Story 83. One Tree Hill 96. Nailed it! 70. Monk 84. Code Black 97. Great British Bake off

98. Instant Hotel 103. The World’s Most 107. Diana: In her own 99. Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Extraordinary Homes Words Rich* 104. Interior design masters 108. 100. 105. Explained 109. Tidying Up with Marie 101. Sugar Rush 106. Abducted in Plain Sight Kondo 102. Amazing Interiors 110. The Circle

Leisure Readers for Enthusiastic Learners

For our young readers! (Beginners) – For more readers please contact your child’s teacher. Our school provides a variety of level appropriate, language-targeted readers that children can borrow from our library . By Roald Dahl: By Beatrix Potter: 1. Matilda 8. The Adventures of Peter Rabbit 2. The Witches By The Oxford Reading Tree: 3. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory 9. Read with Oxford: Biff, Chip and Kipper 4. The BFG (Reading Stages 1-9) 5. James and The Giant Peach By Dr Seuss: 6. George’s Marvelous Medicine 10. Cat in the Hat 7. The Enormous By Jeff Kinney: 11. Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series (14 books)

For Teenage Readers (13 – 16 years old) (Intermediate) By : 9. Pants on Fire (a.k.a. Tommy By Toni Diterlizzi and Holly Black: 1. The Princess Diaries series Sullivan is a Freak) (The Spiderwick Chronicles) (10 books) 10. Jinx 16. The Field Guide 11. Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls 2. series (7 17. The Seeing Stone series (6 books) books) 18. Lucinda's Secret 12. Olivia Grace series (5 1-800-WHERE-R-U series 19. The Ironwood Tree 3. books) (5 books) 20. The Wrath of Mulgarath 4. All-American Girl series (2 By Jacqueline Wilson: BY R.J. Palacio: books) 13. Tracy Beaker series (4 5. series (1 book books) 21. Wonder + 3 graphic novels) 14. Girls series (4 books) 6. The trilogy (3 BY Enid Blyton: books) By Annie Dalton: 7. 15. Angels Unlimited (12 books) 22. Famous Five Book series 8. (21 books) For Advanced Readers (16+ years) (Higher)

By Rick Riordan: (Percy Jackson Series) 28. The Philosopher's Stone 29. The Chamber of Secrets 23. The Lightning Thief 30. The Prisoner of Azkaban 24. The Sea of Monsters 31. The Goblet of Fire 25. The Titan's Curse 32. The Order of the Phoenix 26. The Battle of the Labyrinth 33. The Half-Blood Prince 27. The Last Olympian 34. The Deathly Hallows

By J.K. Rowling: ( Series) By C. S. Lewis: (Chronicles of Narnia)

35. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe By Lauren Kate: 36. Prince Caspian 37. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 43. Fallen series (5 books) 38. The Silver Chair 39. The Horse and His Boy By Sarah Dessen: 40. The Magician's Nephew 44. That Summer 41. The Last Battle 45. Along for the Ride 46. The Lock and Key

47. The Truth about Forever By P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast: 48. Just Listen 49. This Lullaby 42. The House of Night series (12 books) 50. Dreamland

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Other suggestions for fluency

Movies

1. The Lion King 21. A Cinderella Story 40. Enchanted 2. The Little Mermaid 22. The Chronicles of Narnia 41. Sky High 3. The Beauty and the Beast 23. 42. Maleficent 4. 24. 43. Alice in Wonderland 5. Moana 25. The Golden Compass 44. 6. Hercules 26. Shrek 45. Brave 7. Mulan 27. Madagascar 46. Boss Baby 8. The Emperor’s New Groove 28. Inside Out 47. Despicable me 9. 29. 48. Madagascar 10. The Incredibles 30. Princess Protection 49. How the Grinch Stole 11. Meet the Robinsons Program Christmas 12. Zootopia 31. Avalon High 50. Cat in the Hat 13. Big Hero 6 32. 51. 14. Wreck it Ralph 33. Lemonade Mouth 52. The Princess Switch 15. 34. Zapped 53. Barbie (Movie Series) 16. Princess and the Frog 35. 54. Marvel Cinematic Universe 17. Aladdin 36. Starstruck (Movie Series) 18. 37. Hatching 55. DC Universe (Movie Series) 19. The Swap 38. Den Brother 20. 39. The Princess Diaries

TV channels you can find quality content on: Online Bookshops: • Baby TV • Wordery – order books online • ♥Disney Channel. Disney XD and Disney Junior • ♥Audible – an service that provides audio • Jetix books • ♥Cartoon Network • ♥Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk – Book section • Boomerang • Kindle – application for reading on mobile/tablet • Nikelodeon • Bookdepository.com – order books online • https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/cbbc BBC for children

Online Resources: • ♥Disney Life – Disney’s application for easy • ♥Netflix/ Netflix Kids – An online streaming access to movies, shows, behind the service for all ages. You can find many movies scenes footage, songs and short films; and TV shows here, but you need to sign up. perfect for kids and teens. Please note you Please note this is a paid service, but content is need to sign up for a paid subscription to use downloadable, so you can view it offline (on this service (about 5.50eur/month)

mobile devices only). Make sure if you use this • Apple Podcasts – You can find great podcasts to application to improve the fluency of younger help keep both you and your children children, it would be best to create a KIDS’ entertained during long drives, or boring chores! PROFILE with restrictions as to what can be Suggestion: TedTalksDaily (quick 10-15 minute searched for or what can appear in their podcasts about all types of issues and ideas) suggested list. • Video – Amazon’s movie and TV • YouTube/ YouTube Kids – Both an application show streaming service. Please note that this is a and a site. This application allows you to find paid service, and not suggested for parents with almost every video you can dream of. Please young kids as accidental purchases can be made supervise your children whilst using this site as through your amazon account. users can upload on it freely. Although there is a • – Nickelodeon’s application on paid, ad-free version, Youtube is a free service mobile devices to watch their TV shows on, and requires no sign up (although signing up is offers games as well. Free, but requires sign up. advised if a child is using this service as the • Cartoon Network – Cartoon Network’s content they view can be restricted or application on mobile devices to watch their TV monitored). shows on, offers games as well. Free, but requires sign up.

Search on YouTube/YouTube Kids the following kid-friendly educational channels:

• Mother Goose Club (younger kids) • ♥It’s okay to be smart (older kids/ preteens) • ♥Ted-Ed (older kids/ preteens) • SoulPancake (older kids/ preteens) • ♥Disney (younger kids) • ♥Simple Kids Crafts (younger kids) • Smithsonian Channel (older kids/ preteens) • Smart Girls (older kids/ preteens/ teens) • Sesame Street Channel (younger kids) • ♥Good Mythical Morning (older kids/ preteens/teens)

♥ = Highly Suggested FRENCH SUGGESTIONS FOR KIDS 1. Top series on Netflix for kids: 2. Peppa pig 3. L'âne Trotro 4. Puffin Rock 5. Simon 6. Le village de Dany 7. Masha et Mischka 8. Pyjamask

9. Top series on Netflix for teens: 10. Dix pour cent 11. Le Bazar de la Charité 12. Zone Blanche 13. Dérapages 14. Wakfu (animated film)