Paul Jennings is a very popular author of books for children and teens. He's also a former teacher and teacher educator in Australia. Recently, he wrote a book...
Hi, everyone, I am Akio FURUKAWA, co-chair person of SSS Extensiver Reading Study Group. You can see the correct word counts for Scholastic Readers at...
Hello, I want to thank George Jacobs for drawing our attention to Paul Jennings' book, and for sharing his own notes taken while reading. Nice touch. This ...
On Monday, Oct 11, 2004, at 18:47 Japan, ... If this is the same author I'm thinking of, a TV program called "Beyond the Twist" was based on his books. Right?...
Extensive Reading list members I had the pleasure of meeting the chairman of the SSS Extensiver Reading Study Group Proffesor Sakai, the other day, when he...
ER list members, Takemoto-san, thank you for introducing Professor Sakai, our SSS leader. We, SSS ER Study Group, are planning to hold a panel discussion about...
Timothy (and others), I found your discussion of the need in teaching for a balance between the M and P styles of management quite interesting. How well I have...
Dear ER members, I would like to respond to Timothy Takemoto's posting about the M and P. The M & P is probably also a practical way to demonstrate varying...
Dear colleagues, I am currently using Oxford University Press and Penguin graded readers with my reading/writing EFL classes. However, I notice that an...
One idea is to encourage teacher-generated and student-generated ER materials. These can be found materials, e.g., from the Internet, and shared with others;...
Hi In my experience publishers tend to be VERY wary of say, homosexual topics, crime or anything which smacks of not being mainstream thought. They tend to err...
Rob is right when he says publisher tend to be wary of controversy (i think think is an unfortunate aspect of global publish. To make things "OK everywhere"...
Hi, Does anyone know how Richmond Readers and MM Readers fit into level schema, compared with (for example) Oxford Bookworms or Pengin or Cambridge readers. ...
Hi Steve, About readers with a more feminist slant. One way to look for them is to ask Oxford, Cambridge, Penguin and Macmillan for their full readers ...
Julian Bamford
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Oct 18, 2004 10:32 am
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How about setting a trend? Try writing one or two. CL...
Clive Lovelock
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Oct 19, 2004 1:41 am
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Last night I thought of the Macmillan Africa readers. http://www.macmillan-africa.com/ Many of these stories feature social and women's issues J...
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I've found that the Cambridge English Readers have some diverse points of view. For example, In the Shadow of the Mountain tells the story of a female...
Richard Day
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Oct 19, 2004 2:06 am
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Has anybody ever thought off using the Guided Reading level system or another system to level books on your own? That would increase the diversity of the...
Hi all At the risk of looking incredibly 'thick' please let me know what this is? I'm guessing something that helps you calculate difficulty by no. of words...
Dear Wendy, I agree with you that by studying the readability of the reading materials is not enough. The contexts of the reading materials are very...
What are the MM Readers? I ought to know but don't. David Hill ... From: "Marc Helgesen" <march@...> To: <ExtensiveReading@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
EPER Enquiries
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Richmond Readers I have not used them for some time and have not seen any new titles for about 3 years. On the EPER database they are as follows: Starter...
EPER Enquiries
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Hi again The HK EERS has a combination of graded readers (ie Oxford reading Tree) and others e.g. Dr. Seuss, Berenstein Bears, Joy Cowley etc. . I'm referring...
ÝDavid asked ... Ý I just picked up a few from a distributor that specializes in independent publishers. They are published out of London with other offices...
Hi Well I think we could probably get access to any published reading scheme in the world but getting a culture/age appropriate one is the tricky factor. I've...
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