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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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Bill Bowler –“Graded Readers: Exploiting them to the Max”
A short preview of Bill Bowler’s IATEFL talk on Graded Readers. Full accompanying PowerPoint slides are available below. Listen to the full audio of Bill’s talk below:...
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Making reading on the Web more enjoyable?
Kieran McGovern writes graded reading materials for English language learners. He runs language learning website eslreading.org and blogs at This Interested Me. I like to print articles I find online...
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The importance of extensive reading –“Red Dog”
Jenny Bassett, Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library (OUP), stresses the importance of extensive reading to improving language proficiency. The new Bookworm just out is Red Dog by Louis de...
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Using Graded Readers with Young Learners: Choosing a Reader
In his first guest post, David Dodgson, a teacher to young learners in Ankara, Turkey, gives his advice on how choose a Graded Reader that is not only suitable for young language learners, but will...
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Using Graded Readers with Young Learners: Before you Read
Having given us some advice on choosing a reader, David Dodgson, a teacher to young learners in Ankara, Turkey, now introduces us to some pre-reading activities to encourage young learners to engage...
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Using Graded Readers with Young Learners: Supporting Reading
Having chosen a reader to use with your young learners and helped them engage with the characters and story through pre-reading activities, David Dodgson now shares some tips on how to support their...
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What’s the point of Extensive Reading?
To celebrate the launch of Project fourth edition, Domino author, Nina Prentice explores the relevance of extensive reading in the upper primary classroom. School is generally about hierarchies and...
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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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#IATEFL – What are reading skills? –They’re not (only) what you think
Rachael Roberts will be joining our line-up of authors speaking at this year’s IATEFL with Caroline Krantz for their talk, ‘Cracking the code of English’. Today she joins us to preview that talk,...
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Four Secrets for Reading in the ELT classroom
Andrea Sarto is the author of Football Forever, a NEW Dominoes graded reader available now. He was born in the UK but has lived and worked in several different countries as an English-language...
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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...
View ArticleMaking reading on the Web more enjoyable?
Kieran McGovern writes graded reading materials for English language learners. He runs language learning website eslreading.org and blogs at This Interested Me. I like to print articles I find online...
View ArticleThe importance of extensive reading –“Red Dog”
Jenny Bassett, Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library (OUP), stresses the importance of extensive reading to improving language proficiency. The new Bookworm just out is Red Dog by Louis de...
View ArticleUsing Graded Readers with Young Learners: Choosing a Reader
In his first guest post, David Dodgson, a teacher to young learners in Ankara, Turkey, gives his advice on how choose a Graded Reader that is not only suitable for young language learners, but will...
View ArticleUsing Graded Readers with Young Learners: Before you Read
Having given us some advice on choosing a reader, David Dodgson, a teacher to young learners in Ankara, Turkey, now introduces us to some pre-reading activities to encourage young learners to engage...
View ArticleUsing Graded Readers with Young Learners: Supporting Reading
Having chosen a reader to use with your young learners and helped them engage with the characters and story through pre-reading activities, David Dodgson now shares some tips on how to support their...
View ArticleWhat’s the point of Extensive Reading?
To celebrate the launch of Project fourth edition, Domino author, Nina Prentice explores the relevance of extensive reading in the upper primary classroom. School is generally about hierarchies and...
View ArticleReading 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...
View Article#IATEFL – What are reading skills? –They’re not (only) what you think
Rachael Roberts will be joining our line-up of authors speaking at this year’s IATEFL with Caroline Krantz for their talk, ‘Cracking the code of English’. Today she joins us to preview that talk,...
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