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Book Club and Reading Games: Name the Book 1 and Last Lines Game
The school year is well underway and you and your students might be looking for some new books to read. Here are two book games you can play with your classes or your Book Club.Continue Reading -
Love Your Pet Day: A Lesson Plan for Animal Lovers
February 20th is Love Your Pet Day. It is an excellent chance to talk about pets and animals with your classes.Continue Reading -
Read to write: improve writing skills using graded readers
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Continue Reading -
Stories of Love
What can we learn about the nature of love from books, especially from old classics? Love really is everywhere, and love in fiction isn’t just romantic love for girls only.Continue Reading -
Film Quest for Your Book Club and Reading Class
Go on a cultural excursion and cheer up your students with a film-related quest.Continue Reading -
Listening practice in the language class
How can the combination of two receptive skills have a productive outcome? What are the benefits of focussing on improving our students' listening fluency?Continue Reading -
Themes in young readers: The natural world and the environment
The natural world is the first place where we have adventures and become explorers, but it is also a place we need to protect.Continue Reading -
Read to Speak: Improving Speaking Skills in the Reading Class
In an earlier post we have looked at using graded readers to improve writing skills.Continue Reading -
Themes in Young Readers Part 1: Daily Life, Magic and Mythology
When we enter the world of books for young learners of English, we find ourselves in an exciting universe.Continue Reading -
Dealing with dyslexia in the English classroom
We could say that dyslexia is as much of a learning difficulty as a teaching difficulty, and not only in the English classroom.Continue Reading -
6 Strategies for Reading with Young Learners
Young learners love stories, and reading with young learners typically involves including a wide range of activities along with the reading itself.Continue Reading -
Jack London Special
We all have fond memories of Jack London stories: our heart rate going faster at the adventures of Buck (The Call of the Wild) and White Fang (White Fang), or feeling angry about cruelty againstContinue Reading