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Readers – Bridging the ELT gap in the Digital Age
This past year my wife, Sue Parminter, and I have been busy editing the new edition of the Dominoes graded reader series. This has led to many a conversation over the dinner table on extensive reading,...
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Are teenagers really reluctant readers?
Ahead of her talk at IATEFL 2011 in Brighton entitled ‘Getting students into extensive reading painlessly: A threefold solution’, Sue Parminter, series co-editor of the Dominoes Readers series,...
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Reading for pleasure – Activities to get students involved
Continuing the Reading for Pleasure series, Verissimo Toste, an Oxford teacher trainer, looks at ways of involving students in the reading process. So, we’ve started our class library. Students have...
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Reading for Pleasure – Students make their own word games
Continuing the Reading for Pleasure series, Verissimo Toste, an Oxford teacher trainer, looks at ways of keeping students reading for pleasure. You have set up the class library and started your...
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Reading for pleasure – Coming Soon to a Cinema Near You!
Continuing the Reading for Pleasure series, Verissimo Toste, an Oxford teacher trainer, looks at how students can make movie posters to keep them engaged with reading. Reading appeals to a student’s...
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Reading for Pleasure – Making Triangles, Sharing Opinions
Continuing the Reading for Pleasure series, Verissimo Toste, an Oxford teacher trainer, looks at how students can make triangles to keep them interested in reading. This month’s activity is...
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Graded Readers and 21st Century Skills
Graded readers then and now Using graded readers to help learners to improve their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills is not a recently discovered English teaching technique. In the 1920s,...
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Creating a reading environment | Using readers in the classroom with adults
We all know why our students should read. Ask any teacher and they will probably tell you that reading builds vocabulary, improves grammar, improves writing skills, and develops critical thinking...
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The Jungle Book becomes our 100th Domino! | Alex Raynham
To mark the publication of the 100th Dominoes graded reader − The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling − the author Alex Raynham talks about the challenges of adapting such a classic title and gives some...
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