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Teaching Tips

Teaching Tips and Tricks. Keep up the learning and engagement with these helpful classroom teaching tips

The “They only play in this school’’ problem

Recently, I have spent a lot of hours in my office trying to write new lesson plans, new activities, and new STEAM challenges having my students in mind –how to help them become better people and lifelong learners. The truth is that over the past year I have seen more and more schools changing their curriculum and their teaching methods. I’ve noticed that...

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 fit the needs and demands of online teaching and learning. When adapting materials for online use, the teacher goes through the usual procedure but with some added stages-considerations. Reading materials in particular, whether...

The Best Thing You Can Do for Reading Fluency

Reading FluencyChoppy, hesitant reading got you down? Does your child’s lack of fluency affect her comprehension? There is a simple trick that you can apply to your child’s reading practice to accelerate his reading fluency. It’s called “rereading”, or sometimes “repeated reading”.  Academic studies and anecdotal evidence from reading professionals and parents alike...

Professional development: long and short courses that can make the difference in your teaching

Professional development refers to continuing education and career training after a person has entered the workforce in order to help them develop new skills, stay up-to-date on current trends, and advance their career. A common misconception about professional development is that it only helps you. It’s important to remember that investing in yourself as...

How to teach reading skills to non-readers

reading skills  The time has come for you to teach the so called certificate classes and you’re thrilled and can’t wait to put into practice all those elaborate strategies you have acquired from your university years on how to do everything. This is your moment! You can shine your light on the highway of star teachers. Ha! Wrong approach. Think again! Teaching...

The Science of Reading

The Science of ReadingDoes reading really matter that much now that we’re in the digital age? Yes! In fact, in the digital age, when we encounter so many different texts and messages every day, our critical and analytical abilities may even matter more than ever. Without a rich vocabulary and background knowledge that we can apply and utilize, we will get tripped up in the...

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 learning time from students as well as the enjoyment of learning a new language. However, learners want to know how well they are doing, and schools need to know who is making progress and who is falling behind. The problem of preparing...

Teaching Reading to students with dyslexia

students with dyslexia  Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. The person diagnosed with dyslexia face difficulties with accurate and fluent word recognition. What is more, poor spelling is a very common result of the deficit in the phonological development. Finally, reading comprehension as well as reading ability in general can be...