When the self-fulfilling prophesy…killed the pastime of reading
DECEMBER 2023, waiting for the New Year to come, I find myself in a family gathering overwhelmed by the festive…
Category: Teaching Reading
It’s not Only How Much you Read but How you read!
Comprehension, Interpretation, Critical Evaluation, Text Processing and Mediation, Scanning, Skimming, Intensive and Extensive Reading, Reading for the Gist, Reading for…
Graded Reading for Grades: How Graded Readers can help with Exam Preparation
Preparing students for tests is a burden all teachers must bear. Test preparation can be taxing and take away valuable…
Adapting reading activities for the online classroom
The new classroom environment, the online classroom, involves adapting the printed coursebook we have been using so far, to…
How to teach reading skills to non-readers
The time has come for you to teach the so called certificate classes and you’re thrilled and can’t wait…
Teaching Reading to students with dyslexia
Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. The person diagnosed with dyslexia face difficulties with…
The Best Thing You Can Do for Reading Fluency
Choppy, hesitant reading got you down? Does your child’s lack of fluency affect her comprehension? There is a simple trick…
The Science of Reading
Does reading really matter that much now that we’re in the digital age? Yes! In fact, in the digital age,…
My students complain that reading texts are too long and difficult to deal with… What should I do?
Text by: Dimitris Primalis Whether you teach a traditional EFL (English as a Foreign Language) class, or a class…
Reading: Wherein L2 Vocabulary belongs
Text by: Marina Siskou A rarely defied teaching practice is the random introduction of the target language vocabulary…