Teaching reading and writing

In this series of videos, we visit classrooms from around the world and observe how teachers in different contexts work with learners of all ages to develop the skills of reading and writing.

The series covers a range of topics related to teaching reading and writing. For each topic, there are a series of videos showing real-life classrooms and a range of different activities and practical strategies to help develop these skills. There is also a workbook for you to download that will guide you through the videos, giving you the opportunity to reflect on your own teaching and think about how you can apply the ideas in your teaching context. Explore the series below.

Getting your learners reading and writing

In this video, listen to teachers from different countries talk about the different challenges they have had with teaching reading and writing skills, and the approaches that they have used that have worked.

Getting your learners reading and writing

Motivating learners to read and write

This video offers practical ideas for getting learners interested in reading and writing and keeping them engaged and on-task.

Motivating learners to read and write

Preparing to read

Watch how different teachers structure a reading lesson, including ideas for activities to do at each stage of the lesson.

Preparing to read

Reading skills

Explore different activities to practise reading skills like predicting, skimming, scanning and recognising links.

Reading skills

Preparing to write

Learn how to support your learners to develop writing skills by giving them models, frames and pre-writing tasks.

Preparing to write

Process writing

Find out more about how process writing works and how to set up this type of writing in class.

Process writing

Responding to writing

Reflect on different ways to give feedback to learners on their writing, and explore strategies for giving meaningful feedback.

Responding to writing

Reading and writing genres

Discover more about different genres in reading and writing and how they can be used to develop reading skills in the language classroom.

Reading and writing genres

Task-based learning

Watch a teacher demonstrating the stages of a task-based learning lesson, offering learners opportunities to practise language skills in a meaningful context.

Task-based learning