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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 -
Book Club and Reading Games: Book postcard and Which classic Red Reader should you read now?
Write a book postcard This activity can work with any age group: young learners, teens and even adults.Continue Reading -
Black Beauty Lesson Plan
Do you like horses and horse riding? How much do you know about these animals?Continue Reading -
Beyond the Moon: Space projects for the language class
In this post on space travel we boldly go where no language class has gone before: to the outer regions of our solar system! We recommend the following projects as starting poinContinue Reading -
Best books of 2019
At the end of the year, we like looking back to see what new titles have been published.Continue Reading -
Behind the Scenes 1: Adapting Stories
Have you ever wondered how graded readers are put together? Who writes them? What is it like to adapt stories?Continue Reading -
Be original!
Do your students read original fiction? Here are three fun stories for them to explore.Continue Reading -
Arts and Crafts activities for your Book Club
In our digital world we can easily forget how much fun we can have with arts and crafts activities in the classroom or in a book club.Continue Reading -
Arts & crafts projects for sunny and rainy days
We often need playful activities to keep the language your children learnt during the school term alive and help them use the words they have learnt in various contexts. In our series of readeContinue Reading -
Approaches in reading education: theories in practice
Let's start with a simple but effective question. Why do we read? We might have different personal reasons (fun, knowledge), but when we read in school, we read to learn.Continue Reading -
Anne of Green Gables Projects for the English Class
From Canada all the way to Japan, Anne (with an'e') Shirley is one of the most popular characters of children's literature.Continue Reading -
Young readers, young listeners
Rhymes, chants and songs If you started learning a second language as a child, it is most likely that you still remember the rhymes and chants you used to practise the alphabet, the parts oContinue Reading