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How can I motivate teens to read more? This question pops up on our computer screens and in conversations every week, and teachers, psychologists, librarians and researchers of a broad field of literacy and language studies offer ideas and solutions…

As teachers, we would all like our students to read more and read better in English. I often ask my students what they are reading for pleasure and they always amaze me with their experiences: some read thick historical novels, car magazines or books…

Teaching reading often feels like training students for a sports competition. The most challenging part can be the beginning and finding the right method for each student, even the reluctant ones.
We still hear students claim that they never read,…

Interview with Zahra Sarbaz and Katharina Mädje from Vienna, Austria
In this series, we talk to inspiring teachers who use literature and storytelling to set up reading programmes and use the arts and literature to develop their students’ language and…

Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Jules Maigret, Phillip Marlowe and Miss Marple are probably the most famous classic detectives we know from fiction. Our students may be familiar with some of them, and will definitely have heard the…

Henry James, who was born in New York City on 15 April in 1843, is in the great group of British authors who can be considered 'outsiders' arriving from various cultural and national backgrounds into the British literary scene. As John McRae reminds…

"A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place." - Jeanette Winterson
What is the easiest source of…

In an earlier post we have looked at using graded readers to improve writing skills. This time we will connect reading with another fundamental language skill: speaking. We write stories, we read stories, we listen to stories, and then we tell stories…

What’s better than a good story? Simple, a series of good stories! Just think of the immense popularity of TV series and the excitement you feel before buying the next comic book in a series. In our post about serialisation, Frances Mariani explains…

What interests you most about Japan? How much do your students know about the country? Although we all have an image of Japan in our minds, and we all have some knowledge of Japanese culture, history, traditions and geography, there is a lot more to…

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear…

Poetry should be treasured  every day of the year, but especially on March 21st, World Poetry Day. We have asked some of our favourite authors to send us their favourite poems and tell us what they mean to them, and we have also added our…

To celebrate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday on May 22nd we have a Detective Special with:
A focus on Sherlock Holmes and Classical Detective Stories
An interview with Richard MacAndrew, the author of Dan and the Missing Dogs.
Detective and…