Keeping a reading journal
When we encourage our students to read, we often ask them to give creative feedback on their reading experience.
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Reading for the environment: Winter
Welcome to our new series of blog posts about the environment.
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Our Top 10 Blog Picks from 2020
Let’s revisit 2020 through our favourite blog posts.
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Fun festive ideas to help your students work on their English
Now that the school holidays and the end of the year are getting closer, you may be thinking of some tasks to set your students so that they practise the English they have learned so far this yea
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Reading tips for parents and guardians
Parents and guardians often ask why and how they should read with their children in English.
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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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Painting the fence with Tom Sawyer
We probably all agree that one of the most iconic scenes from Mark Twain’s novels is when Tom Sawyer has to whitewash the fence.
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Literary Time Travel 1: Back to the 1700s with Lemuel Gulliver and Jonathan Swift
Classic novels are just that: classic. They are infused with a universal magic that allows them to resonate throughout the ages.
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Lesson plan: The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton’s classic novel, The Age of Innocence, not only defined the age it described - New York in 1870s - but it wove a fascinating and complex story about love and commitment which raises a nu
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Little Women: Big learning opportunities with our project-based ideas
Introduction
1. Talk about the title and read the blurb.
"This is the much-loved story of the four March sisters. Meg is the eldest and is about to fall in love.
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Thanksgiving: 6 topics for your English class
“November had come; the crops were in, and barn, buttery, and bin were overflowing with the harvest that rewarded the summer's hard work.
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