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Picture books for all

Submitted by sjmourao on 15 February, 2011 - 12:55

Can I hear you tutting? "Picturebooks for all? But aren't picturebooks for babies and small children?"

There are some wonderful examples of picturebooks, often in board book format, which are specifically for babies and small children, but picturebooks are not just for babies.

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My Daughter, The Fox

Submitted by Anonymous on 19 October, 2012 - 21:38

Jackie Kay's story My Daughter, The Fox gives the reader an unusual view of the mother/child relationship. As the title suggests, the narrator's daughter isn't human, but the feelings generated between mother and daughter are universal and so the scene is set for the paradox to be played out.

To find out more about the Britlit writing team in Russia and watch an interview with the team, click here or follow the link below:

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/britlit/britlit-russia-meet-team

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ELT Online Reading Group news

Submitted by ellenpd on 12 March, 2012 - 12:16

The ELT Online Reading Group started in 2007 with a very simple objective: make short stories and poems available to teachers who have little access to literature in English - or little time to sea

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Strap Box Flyer

Submitted by Anonymous on 7 February, 2012 - 11:14

Giffen is an unpleasant man who is always on the lookout for ways to trick money out of 'suckers' and his amazing glue seems to be the perfect way to do this. Until he come across Flinty, that is.

Strap Box Flyer is from the pen of one of Australia's most popular writers for children, Paul Jennings. This kit was assembled - without using any glue - by teachers from India, Portugal and Turkey on a NILE (Norwich Institute of Language Education) summer course.

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Dickens!

Submitted by Anonymous on 1 February, 2012 - 16:30

Next week we will be celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens! In preparation for this we have been creating teaching materials based on Dickens texts.

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Inanimate Alice

Submitted by Anonymous on 30 November, 2011 - 19:02

It's now over three years since the producers of Inanimate Alice began to support their digital fiction with resources for teachers.

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Billy Elliot

Submitted by TE Editor on 30 August, 2011 - 13:49

‘Billy Elliot’ is the story of a boy from a coal mining family who decides to be a ballet dancer.

Teaching the tale: language and memory

Submitted by David Heathfield on 5 July, 2011 - 09:01

A feature that is common both to language teaching and to traditional folk and fairy tales is the repetition of phrases or ‘language chunks’.

Rhythm, rhyme, repetition, reasoning and response in oral storytelling

Submitted by David Heathfield on 28 June, 2011 - 11:00

Live storytelling is a spontaneous creative process which fires the imagination. The listener experiences and participates in the story creatively. If the storyteller allows, the listener can have a direct influence on the story as it unfolds.

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Storytelling to celebrate cultural diversity

Submitted by David Heathfield on 7 June, 2011 - 11:59

Many of us work with groups of students from more than one cultural background while others teach largely monocultural groups of students. In both cases, there is opportunity to celebrate diversity through the telling of traditional tales, whatever the age group and profile of our students.

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