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Organise a Reading Marathon Day in your school
They say that reading is a solitary act, a time just for ourselves. However, reading can also be a community event that takes your students closer to the joy of sharing stories.Continue Reading -
Discover our Young Readers
Whether you're learning your first or second language, you cannot start reading early enough. A good educational program will revolve around stories.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 -
Book Club and Reading Games: Two quizzes
Quizzes are always a fun option as a warm-up exercise or as a reward during a lesson. They can inspire students to read a story or help them reflect on their reading experience.Continue Reading -
Celebrate Earth Day: reading lists and teaching resources
Earth Day (celebrated on April 22nd) gives us an excellent opportunity to talk about protecting the environment, being more eco-friendly, and more aware of our responsibilities as inhabitants of the EContinue Reading -
4 Resources Model of Reading: Young readers
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 -
Key Figures in Education: Lev Vygotsky
In this series we introduce key figures in education, and take a look at pivotal areas of their thinking.Continue Reading -
Language and CLIL Projects for World Food Day
'Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too.' World Food Day, an event promoted by the United Nations' World Agricultural Organisation is held on October 16th.Continue Reading -
Meet our favourite classic ghosts
Ghosts might be scary, but we all enjoy reading tales of the supernatural and are captured by the thrills and mystery of good ghost stories.Continue Reading -
Passionate about Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy have become such familiar names for so many of us that we feel as if we know them and most likely our students do, too.Continue Reading -
Stories and Projects for World Cities Day
The United Nations celebrates World Cities Day on 31st October.Continue Reading -
Five classic authors to celebrate in November
Are you looking for some great reads in November? Celebrate five great authors with us and read some of their works both in and out of class.Continue Reading