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Setting the story stage

20 February 2020 Lucy Crichton Young Learners Leave a comment

If you’ve already told stories in your classroom, you’ll know just how magical it can be.  However, you might have also experienced a session where the students couldn’t concentrate properly or get engaged in the story you were trying to tell.  Below, you’ll find are a number of things that

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Reading as Exploration: Tips for Effective Reading Lessons

18 December 2019 Sean Bermingham Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens Leave a comment

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere,” wrote the journalist Mary Schmich. It allows us to explore the world and make exciting discoveries. But for many language learners, reading in English is a challenging and often frustrating experience. So, how can we inspire our student readers and guide them to

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Connecting to your students through stories

26 November 2019 Lucy Crichton Young Learners 4 comments

How much do your students know about you? Are they curious about what you were like when you were their age? One of the best ways to start using storytelling in your classroom is to begin with a personal story about yourself. Children will be fascinated to see a photo

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Incorporating Stories into the Classroom

23 October 2019 Lucy Crichton Young Learners Leave a comment

One of the most powerful language experiences for a young child is to listen to a story. It can be a picture book, a personal story, an anecdote, a family joke, a whimsical poem, a song or an old fable. Whatever the style, we must remember that stories are like

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Nurturing Reading Success in Young Learners of English

27 March 2019 Rachel Wilson Young Learners 4 comments

It was a privilege to give a webinar on reading for National Geographic Learning recently. I’d participated in webinars before, but this was my first time as a presenter. Admittedly, I was a little apprehensive about presenting to the void – no other faces, no other voices besides mine. In

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How to Maximise Audio Scripts

25 August 2017 Alex Warren Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens One comment

Here’s a question for you. How often do you use the listening scripts in the back of the book for follow-up work or additional activities? Be honest! Now, I’m going to guess most of you are thinking ‘not often’, and you wouldn’t be alone. From my experience of doing countless

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Recycled Readings

15 August 2017 Alex Warren Teaching Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

Nowadays most course books come with the reading texts available in Word format either online or on the teacher’s resource CD-ROM. These are a great resource, but from my experience teachers rarely take advantage of these, which is a shame as there’s so much you can do with them and,

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