Helbling Readers Blue Series

Extensive reading produces dramatic improvements in learners’ language ability in terms of both receptive and productive skills. Encouraging extensive reading at the correct level can have a long-term impact on learners’ language development. As students are exposed to the language by reading for pleasure, they build confidence and are more likely to develop a habit of reading and a love of language.

The Helbling Readers Blue Series ensures satisfying, motivating and enjoyable reading experiences, whether the texts are original stories written specifically for learners, or adaptations of well-known books originally written for a general readership and graded with care to retain their original flavour. 

By providing exposure to language at an appropriate level, used naturally in vivid contexts, Helbling Readers Blue Series offers learners excellent opportunities to consolidate the language they know and to extend that knowledge, as they meet familiar language in new contexts.

The series also provides opportunities for learners to expand their knowledge of language, as they will meet vocabulary that is new to them. As great care is taken to make the meanings of new vocabulary transparent, with the help of illustrations and the glossary and clear contexts, this new language can easily be absorbed in the process of reading without learners feeling over-faced.

The Blog provides plenty of ideas and resources such as interviews, lesson plans, tips and worksheets to enrich the teaching experience and make the most of Helbling Readers Blue Series both in class and as part of an extensive reading programme.