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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 -
Still reluctant? – 5 classroom solutions to build reading stamina
Teaching reading often feels like training students for a sports competition.Continue Reading -
Sports and Reading
If they are not going out with their friends or checking out some new app on their smartphones, our students are very likely to be doing some kind of sport.Continue Reading -
Some drama in the teen classroom
The holiday season is only a month away, just the right time to start preparing a play or short performance in class.Continue Reading -
Seven stories for a better school day
Young children often face big questions at school.Continue Reading -
Setting up a Book Club
No time to read books in class? Curriculum tight and your students groan when you suggest extra hours? Have you ever considered setting up a book club in your school?Continue Reading -
Serialisations in the language class
What is serialisation? And why are we telling you about it? In a previous blog we defined serialised stories as ‘series’, similar to our television series today.Continue Reading -
Sense and Sensibility: Explore the world of Jane Austen
Jane Austen's view of relationships and society never ceases to amuse us.Continue Reading -
Science and Reading in the English Classroom
How can graded reading appeal to students who are more interested in science than literature? What easy approaches can we try to engage learners who do not show much interest in fiction?Continue Reading -
Book Club roles and role cards
In an ideal book club you do not need to assign tasks because the members have sufficient language skills to discuss the texts.Continue Reading -
4 Resources Model of Reading: Classic fiction
In the first part of our series focusing on different approaches to and models of reading we revised the Four Resources model of reading (Luke and Freebody 1999).Continue Reading -
4 Resources Model of Reading: Original fiction
In the first part of our series focusing on different approaches to and models of reading we revised the Four Resources model of reading (Luke and Freebody 1999).Continue Reading