young readers Blog Posts
24 Days of Goodness: The Helbling Young Learners Advent Reading Calendar
When you say advent and advent calendar, what’s the first thing that comes to your students’ minds?
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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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Beyond the Moon: Two readers to travel in space
In the last on our series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, we present some Helbling readers which will launch you and your students into space.
We have already looked at M
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Moon Landing 50: Moony goes on holiday
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. In a previous post we have collected resources for you to learn more about the Moon landing and lots of stories to inspire CLIL and
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Arts & crafts projects for sunny and rainy days
We often need playful activities to keep the language your children learnt during the school term alive and help them use the words they have learnt in various contexts.
In our series of reade
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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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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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Seven stories for a better school day
Young children often face big questions at school.
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