I am very excited – and quite proud – to announce that Readers’ Favorite have reviewed one of my graded readers, Mind the Gap and have given it a 4-star rating. You can see the full review here on their website. What is Readers’ Favorite? It’s a book reviewing website…
Reviewed by Louanne Piccolo for Readers’ Favorite Lite Whines and Laughter: Mild Rants and Musings on the Mundane by Lee Gaitan is a collection of essays with a unique humorous spin proving to us that real life is always better than fiction. It will appeal to women from baby boomers…
I’ve been reading a wonderful book called Mindfulness for Health and one of the chapters has asked me to write down ten good things I’ve come across every day for a week. The author says, “It’s important to write down ten things and not to stop after you’ve reached four…
This is the last article in a series of three, following “Why should I include extensive reading in my English classroom?” part one and part two. In those two articles, we had a look at the benefits of asking your students to read graded readers or easy English texts to…
In my first blog post on ‘Why should I include extensive reading in my English classroom’, I said that the Internet is inundated with many ingenious ways of teaching and learning English. In fact, there are more than 2,620,000,000 search results that pop up when you google the question,…
It’s IWSG Day, when writers can talk about their doubts and fears and be encouraged by others who have the same. It’s a safe place for writers to hang out – and like, a really cool club – and is brought to you by Alex Cavanaugh who’s co-hosted this month…
A routine search on the Internet these days with the keywords “how to learn English” brings up 2,620,000,000 results. Methods range from practising for 5-minutes a day on a language app to taking an online course – and make a quick and mind-blowing detour around the suggestions of using hypnosis…
As a foreign language English teacher, I think that reading in easy English is good for my students. There. I said it. And I stand by it. Reading easy English books is important if you’re learning English. Just like actual running is important if you’re training for a marathon. We…