I have been into reading since I was a child. I was that kid who would ask for books as presents and I would read all the books in Coleção Vagalume at least 3 times. Therefore I always recommend a lot of reading to my students. We frequently read and discuss pieces of news in class and I often send out links for interesting texts. Books, however, have their magic and students usually have a good time reading them.
On 4Shared you can find many Readers, the story books adapted to ESL learners, and download those in PDF files (free of charge!). It's quite easy to download the book and just e-mail it to your students. It will also save you time trying to get the books back.
On 4Shared you can find many Readers, the story books adapted to ESL learners, and download those in PDF files (free of charge!). It's quite easy to download the book and just e-mail it to your students. It will also save you time trying to get the books back.
The Readers are graded based on their number of headwordsEasystarts 300 headwords
Level 1 300 headwords (Beginner)
Level 2 600 headwords (Elementary)
Level 3 1200 headword (Pre-Intermediate)
Level 4 1700 headwords (Intermediate)
Level 5 2300 headwords (Upper-Intermediate)
Level 6 3000 headwords (Advanced)
Also, visit Onestopenglish where you will find many ideas on how to work with literature in class, including a list of follow-up questions (printable!) that can be adapted to almost any kind of Reader.
I totally agree with you Dani! Students can definitely benefit a lot from reading. And sometimes it's just so difficult to motivate them to read, especially the teens... Thanks a lot for your useful ideas and great links! Hugs, Carol :)
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