The Motivated Classroom

24 ¦ 11 zero-prep reading strategies for the language classroom

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Building on the interview with Adriana Ramirez in Episode 23 on using novels and reading to motivate our language students, this episode focuses on 11 zero-prep practical strategies for the languages classroom aimed at growing a love and passion for reading among your students: 


1. Class novels
2. Free Voluntary Reading (FVR)
3. Embedded readings & extended readings
4. Volleyball reading
​5. Read to parents and translate
6. The reading diary
7. Reading with laser and making new sentences
8. Reading and underlining all things you understand & Inventing questions with no answer
9. Highlighting the 1 key phrase and explaining why
10. Readers theater & Emotional reading
11. Boys and girls reading

For full details a list of these strategies, check out the programme notes with further information and links to research and resources at www.liamprinter.com/podcast.

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