Ron, Do those books have an EPER level? You might be able to reference them to something else if they do, using Rob Waring's previously linked tables of ER ...
Glen, Tom et al.... I should have used the term "level" rather than category. Our levels are similar to Penguin's. I did think of providing a page like Tom ...
We have quite a bit of native speaker "youth literature" in our own library and we have found that we have to place it up rather high in our set of 10 levels. ...
I like this category of Children's Book-Native Speakers. The illustrations usually show the pun. I have used Amelia with many adults and they were delighted....
Dear Hudson, Thank you very much for your email. In that case, is it OK to put your name, University, and email address, but no availability to visit your ER...
Atsuko Takase
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Hi Atsuko, Yes, by all means DO mention it. The object is to get as many teachers and schools using it as possible. Yoroshiku! Cheers, Tom ... -- *******...
Hi Tom, Thank you for your mail. In the manuscript I have actually mentioned the Moodle Reader module in the book. Is it OK to introduce your name and...
Atsuko Takase
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Nov 16, 2009 2:26 pm
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I have a category called "Children's Books-Native Speakers". And put all of them in there. As you say, there's a lot of unusual usage and vocabulary there...
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone would care to comment on my little "problem"... I do the categorizing of graded readers for our English Center's library. I...
Hi Atsuko, We do ER but we don't have ER classes but teachers could observe students taking the ER quizzes in one of our computer rooms. Would there be an...
Dear All, Thank you very much for many replies with the information of your ER classes. I have found that some of the email sent to me haven't arrived to me or...
Atsuko Takase
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Nov 15, 2009 5:07 pm
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Sue Leather has very kindly allowed me to host an edited version of her 'Writing a Really Good Original Reader' on my site. You can find it here: ...
Dear Glen, Students have 70 minutes of SSR in one 80 minutes lesson. They have some time for selecting books and girls' talking, so they actuarlly read...
Many thanks for this info, Tom. These sites look very promising, particularly the comic-strip one. I'm experimenting at the moment with the 'sliding page'...
I don't know if this has been brought to the attention of this list yet or not, but this site: http://tarheelreader.org/ allows users to easily create their...
If there were 100 people on this list and if each produced one reader or simplified some text or story per year we would have 500 in five years. From:...
... Yikes! Jaws is a proper noun... It's the name of the shark. My view is that if the word can be glossed within the text or is clear from the context,...
I have also noted that many of my (16-19) students prefer reading onscreen - even with the problems that conventional screens pose. Personally I instinctively...
Akio, Do they actually read for the whole 80 minutes or just 30 minutes of SSR (which is what I thought you wrote earlier)? If it's 30 minutes, then their ...
Dear Glenn and all, In my school, the average total amount of words the students have read in three academic years is about 1 million words. However, a half of...
Hi Richard, My experience teaching in a national university in Japan is similar to Akio's, although I'd start my students at i-1 where he would maybe prefer ...
Glenski, Only reporting the facts as presented to me. <grin> Actually I agree with you. It is a matter of (misplaced?) priorities rather than actual free time....
Richard (and all), Re: lack of time I always joke about that with students who give me the same reply. Yeah, yeah, I know uni students' lives are busy with...
Hi Akio, Thanks for the quick response. The reason I asked is that I conducted a survey about students' reading habits and preferences and although I have yet...
This doesn't make any difference to the moderator's rules for conduct among members of the group, but as far as I can tell all of our messages can be seen on...
Hi all, Well I've been lurking for a while, sorry. But the activity of recent days has prompted me to "delurk". I'll try to make brief comments on some of the...
Dear All, I am writing a book on Extensive Reading targeted mainly to Japanese teachers of English. In the book I'd like to introduce institutions where ER is...
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