ChessKid Announces New Handbook For Teaching Chess

Starting a chess program for kids and planning a chess tournament for them may seem intimidating. Have you observed chess programs at other schools and wondered what makes them successful? Even more important is, how do you even begin to teach chess to kids?

If you are looking for free resources that can help you establish a chess program or club for kids, perhaps you are an adult in one of these categories:

• A teacher or other professional in a school
• A parent who conducts a homeschool program, or
• An adult player who wants to volunteer to teach chess to kids.

ChessKid has been listening, and we want to be supportive. To help you feel more confident and prepare you for teaching chess to kids, we have a new resource: ChessKid’s Guide for Teaching Chess.

How do you start a chess club? Let ChessKid help.

Here are the details:

• Contents of Guide for Teaching Chess
• Sample Questions About Teaching Chess To Kids
• Special Features of Guide
• Important Links in ChessKid Ebook
• ChessKid Handbooks

Contents of Guide for Teaching Chess

The ebook or chess guide has tips, suggestions, answers, and other resources to address your concerns. It is packed with questions that teachers, coaches, parents, and other professionals often ask. Each question is linked to an online resource such as an article or a video — in some cases, both — about a specific topic that concerns you. Because the format of the handbook is PDF, you can easily download it and use it frequently when questions pop into your head.

You might be asking, How does an ebook differ from frequently asked questions that are popular components of some online sources? Our ebook features visualizations and interactions that help you quickly understand concepts that are difficult to explain through only text.

Create a chess classroom with help from ChessKid.

This new format has curated the best of our experts’ advice on teaching chess in one resource. You may be also surprised how much fun you can have by involving kids in a chess program.

Sample Questions About Teaching Chess To Kids

The guide provides more than 75 specific how-tos for a variety of relevant topics such as how to start a chess program, how to use ChessKid’s Classroom Planner and Chess Curriculum, how to set up a chess tournament, and how to grow a chess program once it’s established. For example, here are seven sample questions that the ebook answers to give you an idea of how it can be useful to you:

• How can I benefit from the experiences of others who have started a club?
• Where can I share ideas, ask questions, and connect with other coaches and teachers?
• What supplies do I need to start a club?
• How should both adults and kids prepare for tournaments?
• How can an adult help kids prepare for a national tournament?
• Can a chess club help with English literacy of children who have recently immigrated?
• How is each child’s progress monitored?

Special Features of Chess Guide

The guide has several special features. One explains how to create a chess classroom. Another introduces ChessKid’s Classroom Planner, a week-by-week guide for teaching chess, and shows how ChessKid has made teaching chess easy. In addition, ChessKid’s Chess Curriculum shows how chess instruction can be aligned with 21st-century skills by grade from kindergarten to fifth grade. By the way, have we mentioned that these resources are free?

ChessKid's Classroom Planner is a 30-week guide that presents online resources of ChessKid in one easy-to-use location.

Important Links in ChessKid Ebook

The ebook also includes links to inspiring stories and achievements by young players themselves that can encourage every youthful player to be successful in chess. After addressing more than 75 topics, the guide concludes with links to other important resources to inspire you to dream about all the opportunities that you can create by teaching kids to play chess and how you can shape their futures.

Bookmark ChessKid’s event page and refer to it when your chess program meets for our scheduled live streams, special events, and opportunities to meet FunMasterMike and the ChessKid team in person.

ChessKid Handbooks

ChessKid hopes that you will be pleased to have this resource and will use it frequently. It is the second ebook that ChessKid has prepared for you. (See the article “ChessKid Announces New Survival Handbook for Parents” if you haven’t yet downloaded the first ebook.) We think this new guide is exactly what teachers, coaches, and parents have been looking for and are happy to provide it to give guidance on starting a chess program for kids.