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6 tips for Extensive Reading for Summer Holidays

June 23, 2022

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Top 5 tips for successfully teaching extensive reading to Secondary to college students

June 17, 2019

Extensive reading is becoming more popular in Japanese ELT industry – thanks to the growing evidence that shows benefits and necessity of extensive reading, reported in numerous publications and academic conferences. Nowadays extensive reading program (ERP) as part of the curriculum is not only offered in private schools, but also it’s being implemented in more public schools.
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The Effectiveness of Reading Stories Based on Movies

July 5, 2018

Japanese English language learners at my school are hooked on reading stories based on the Marvel movies. These are available in the newly published Marvel readers series. Introducing these stories based on movies ("movie stories") into your reading program will add variety to your classroom. A.S, a high school second-year student, states that the movie stories that she already knows are fun to read and boost her motivation to read English books.Movies are a major source of entertainment. Each movie director has his or her way of expressing ideas through film. Whether you are an expert on movies or not, movie materials are beneficial to, and most of all, interesting to the learners. Let me introduce some of the ways I use them in teaching.
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Extensive Reading and More with Graded Readers

June 26, 2018

Graded readers (“GRs”), such as those that Pearson offers, are an excellent tool for students to use in a myriad of ways. Many teachers when thinking of graded readers, associate them with “extensive reading”. While that is naturally one of the major uses for GRs, there are many more that we will explore below.
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