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1. Book Clubs as a Tool for Community Building and Language Enhancement

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   The author uses her own experience starting and facilitating a book club to give advice to others interested in creating a book club in their schools or communities.

2. Teaching Technique: Timed Partner Reading and Text Discussion

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This engaging partner-reading activity provides students with an opportunity to improve their reading comprehension and text-based discussion skills.

3. Teaching Students How to Write a Description with Photos

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This Teaching Technique explains what the author describes as a pre-task for teaching students to write descriptively about a photo diary that students create themselves.

4. Connecting Reading and Writing in Grammar Teaching: A Functional Approach

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This webinar, "Connecting Reading and Writing in Grammar Teaching: A Functional Approach," explores teaching grammar from a meaning-based perspective.

5. Activities to Support Students’ Out-of-Class Reading

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Teaching Technique gives suggestions for supporting students’ reading outside the classroom.

6. TRY THIS Skim, Scan, Run

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Here is a step-by-step guide to getting students out of their seats and moving around – and skimming and scanning reading texts.

7. Creating and Adapting Materials for a Multilevel Class

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, "Creating and Adapting Materials for a Multilevel Class," focuses on how to help students of all levels learn by means of motivating and engaging activities.

8. Engaging Language Learners with Biography-Based Lessons, Units, and Courses

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article provides a number of ideas for incorporating biographies and biography-based texts to enhance the learning of language (and culture).

9. Three Interactive Alternatives for Developing Reading Fluency

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Using clear examples and explanations, this article presents three ways for students to interact with peers and with texts to develop reading fluency.

10. Read and Run: A Communicative Reading Activity

    In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 2 Format(s): Text

    The article describes an intensive-reading task that incorporates movement, teamwork, fun, and concentrated practice.

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