All levels Practice-based Long Session (45 minutes)
Xreading News: graded news stories from around the world
Xreading News is an exciting new feature recently piloted on Xreading. Each week there are 5 graded news articles. Stories are short and cover a wide range of topics, such as Science & Technology, Health, and World News. The team of story writers and the series editor will discuss various aspects and perspectives on the process of bringing news stories to Xreading. They will discuss sourcing and selecting stories, writing graded text, and simplifying complex issues. They will also talk about using the stories in the classroom.
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Catriona has worked in Japan as a teacher and teacher-trainer, with a focus on YL since the early 90s. She has written graded readers for Halico's '10 Ways' series and is a writer and editor for the Global Issue Narratives series published by Abax Japan. A fortuitous meeting at the ERWC in Dubai led to her also working for XReading.
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Paul Goldberg has taught English as a foreign language in Venezuela, Spain, Korea, the US, and most recently at Kwansei Gakuin University, in Japan. His main areas of interest are extensive reading and extensive listening. Paul is the founder of Xreading, which he developed because of his desire to make graded readers more accessible for students, and extensive reading programs easier for teachers to manage. Email: paul@xreading.com.
