This webinar, "Introduction to Reader's Theater for EFL Classrooms" demonstrates how to facilitate Reader's Theater and how to use Reader's Theater as an enriching and productive English language learning activity. Reader's Theater is a group read-aloud in which individuals perform level-appropriate scripts to tell a story cooperatively. For this webinar, you will find an online webinar recording, and the downloadable presentation.

This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to motorcycles.

1. “Motor + cycle,” designed for upper beginner students, familiarizes students with prefixes and suffixes and teaches them to make words from the root word cycle.

2. “Faster, Faster!” is for intermediate students and teaches them about modes of transportation; it encourages students to discuss and compare modes of transportation and practice using comparative adjectives.

3. “Route 66: America’s Most Famous Highway,” intended for upper intermediate and advanced students, will acquaint students with famous routes around the world and give students the opportunity to practice creating itineraries.

The authors developed the Bimodal Narrative Approach (BNA), which expands the extensive reading approach by adding listening activities. The authors, who used this approach with teacher trainees, outline the use of a graded reader novel and audio pack in BNA reading and listening classes. Video-based activities and evaluation are also discussed.

The author presents a theoretical framework for using picture storybooks in teaching EFL to adults, suggesting that the storybooks are helpful in teaching both mechanics and culture. The article provides activities and resources and suggests themes that can be explored through the picture storybooks.