The Thinking Train Blog Posts
Play and learn: Online games for picture books
Online games are great extensions to your online or classroom-based English lessons.
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Using online games with young learners
As teachers, we have all used games, be they online or not, to engage and motivate our teen, adult or young learners.
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Four new titles in The Thinking Train series
We have added a brand new level F to our award-winning picture book series for young learners.
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Five stories about fantasy in The Thinking Train series
We never seem to tire of fairy tales, fantasy novels and science fiction. From early childhood, these stories enchant their readers and fire their imagination.
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Six stories about the power of family
The many ways our families can shape our personalities and guide our steps in life offer fascinating stories.
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Interactive reading: learn, think and play with The Thinking Train series
Among the multitude of benefits of reading stories in the language class, we would like to point out the importance of interaction during reading sessions.
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Looking together: word and image interplay in picture books
Picture books are rich resources for language development as well as visual literacy development, regardless of the age of your students.
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Seven stories for a better school day
Young children often face big questions at school.
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Stories that support language and thinking development
A need for stories
Stories help us meaningfully organize our experiences, no matter how old we are or what language we speak.
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Deborah’s dreams: how stories can make a difference
The graphic novel Jane, the Fox & Me by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault shows us that books and reading can work as protective shields, safe zones and islands of self-discovery.
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The Thinking Train: Reading and Learning with Stories
We start developing a love of books and reading well before we are independent readers, and why should it be different when we are learning a second language?
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