Lesson plan on everyday gadgets (including use of Glogster)

Here's a really comprehensive lesson plan that practises speaking, listening and reading skills plus helps students to build their vocabulary. What more could you want! Should work well with Juniors above /intermediate levels and above.

Finding graded reading material on the internet.

Find it difficult to find authentic online reading material at the right level for your students? Here's Twurdy to your rescue - a search machine that grades the results of your search according to reading difficulty.

BeeOasis is also good source of graded reading material - it's a site that offers stories, news, and comments about the arts and sciences -some of which come with video and sound. At the moment BeeOasis offers 30 days free access to material.

How to improve your students' reading skills

This blog post by Marisa Constantinides is timely reading for all of us who are thinking of taking up Beatrice's excellent Reading Challenge. Marisa digs down to reveal what the reading experience consists of and then provides practical steps we can take to help our students improve their skills. Recommended!