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Still reluctant? – 5 classroom solutions to build reading stamina
Teaching reading often feels like training students for a sports competition.Continue Reading -
Music for your reading class
Most of our students love and listen to a lot of music, and will most likely have a favourite song and singer (which is liable to change, of course).Continue Reading -
Book Club and Reading Games: Find someone who... and Characters today
We are well into the term now and it's time for some easy and fun activities in your classroom or Book Club. Here are two new games you can use together or separately.Continue Reading -
Graphic Stories Special: Meet the Westbourne Kids
In this special we would like you and your students to meet the Westbourne kids, the main characters in a series of twelve graphic stories at A1-A2 level.Continue Reading -
Create a mysterious setting in 8 easy steps
What makes Gothic and Halloween stories so scary and exciting? It must be a combination of a spine-chilling plot and a powerful build-up to and description of each scene.Continue Reading -
Vocabulary development with graded readers
We have learnt that the secret of vocabulary growth is continuous practice and contextualisation, consolidation, and constant recycling of words learnt.Continue Reading -
Read and watch stories
Whether you watch the adaptation first and then read the story, or vice versa, there are plenty of benefits to watching film adaptations with your class.Continue Reading -
Reading the classics in class
One of the best qualities of the classics is that we can always rely on them.Continue Reading -
Mystery at the Mill: Projects and interview
Mystery at the Mill (Blue Readers Fiction, Level 5) takes you on an adventure in space and time, and it also raises some important issues in our society that your students will care about, too. TheContinue Reading -
Book Club and Reading Games: Break the ice and Five prediction activities
Started or thinking of starting a Book Club, but afraid you'll run out of ideas or inspiration to keep your group motivated?Continue Reading -
The Green Room: an Interview with Robert Campbell
The Extensive Reading Foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organisation that promotes extensive reading across the globe.Continue Reading -
5 + 5 Tips on Extensive Reading in the Classroom
Classroom reading programmes involving your whole class can be the simplest and most powerful initiatives you carry out in your English class.Continue Reading