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Getting your learners reading and writing

In this video, we visit classrooms around the world and observe how teachers work with learners of all ages to develop the skills of reading and writing.

Developing reading and writing skills presents challenges for teachers everywhere. So what are these challenges and how can they be resolved? In this video, hear teachers and learners explaining the issues they have experienced, and the approaches they have found to be effective.

Procedure:

Download the session notes below. The notes contain discussion, video-viewing and reflection tasks.
Follow the tasks by going through the two videos in sequence.
The video and session notes are designed as self-study resources to be worked through together. Techniques are transferable to other classes in other contexts.

Download the session notes

Part 1: Challenges of teaching reading and writing skills

Part 2: Addressing the challenges

Hi! I can't view the video. It is written 'Video forbidden'

Hi Fadidac I've just tried the videos and both parts 1 and 2 are working fine for me. Could you try another browser and see if that helps? Cheers Del

Hi, I can't find the video and the download button isn't accessible. I can't do the activities given because the video isn't there. Any help please. Thanks

Hi Amal Try clicking on the smaller boxes (part 1 and part 2). This will open up the video in the bigger box above them. Let me know if this helps. Cheers Del

It's very useful information for teachers

This kind of information is useful because we can understand different strategies and ideas which can be applied for new ways of teaching English

Thank you for this valuable information and videos

Yes, there is a lot to learn in this video but the video is not new and it does not satisfy the requirements of being contemporary as it is out of time a bit. It is still very much perfect though, to find such a site. But, in some videos the site has to renew itself. With the process of time, the requirements for learning and teaching changes. So, we have got to change, create or find the new techniques or methods as much as new materials.

Thanks for your feedback. We do our best to keep all information on the site up to date, and regularly review our content. Obviously things change in teaching, but there are also a lot of strategies (particularly related to skills) that are always relevant, like many of the ideas for teaching reading and writing to groups here. Hope you find some of these ideas useful.

Best wishes,
Cath

TE Team

I find the information very useful and I like the part that involves the use of making codes which can help students understand your comments without you having to explain all over again.

warm up activities

Hello!
As much as I want to be able to watch the videos, it only says "Video Not Found" on my end. I tried it on MS Edge, Chrome and Firefox and I still got the same message. I also tried checking again after deleting my browser history and cache and still got the same message: "Video Not Found"

Is there a video on your end or same message as mine?

Thank you!

Hello,

Thanks for your comment and for flagging this up. Due to a recent update, we have lost some video links - we hope to have these restored as soon as possible.

Thanks for your patience!

Cath

TeachingEnglish team