Grade up with graded readers
The last of the zannshou (lingering heat) has sapped me of blog entry ideas today, but I have continued with the endless task of updating my list of publications. The latest to go up is an article from the now defunct teflfarm.com that I have managed to drag up from the depths of my hard disk and I now offer to those who weren’t around in the stone ages of TEFL websites… It’s on how to use graded readers (easy readers) to liven up your classes and how using graded readers in class can persuade students to use them at home too
http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/article-bringing-graded-readers-into-the-classroom/
Somewhere along the way I also wrote a game-based lesson plan on the same subject
http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?catid=58136&docid=145128
And if you haven’t got any graded readers to try these with, there are plenty of reviews on