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Teacher training videos
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What I’ll talk about
• Why reading is so important in childhood
• Macmillan’s three Reading Schemes for children
• What resources are available at http://www.macmillanyounglearners.com/readers/
• Some suggestions on how to use the resources in the classroom
If children have interests then education happens
Sugata Mitra
Macmillan’s three Reading Schemes for children
Macmillan Children’s ReadersMaking Music
Macmillan Factual ReadersButterflies
Explorers PhonicsIn the Mud
Question
• Many of the titles have sample pages available on the website.
How could you use these pages in the classroom?
How could you use these pages in the classroom?Suggestions
• Project/print pages and discuss which books the children want to read and why
• Use the pages as a lead-in discussion
• Use the pages as part of shared reading
• Use the pages to help re-tell the story
• …
Resourcesfor each title
Resources for Explorers Phonics
All audio free to download
How could you use the audio with your students?
• Listen and read, read then listen, listen then read
• Audio book
• A model for phonics
• …
http://www.macmillanyounglearners.com/
• A central place for information about all our pre-primary and primary courses
• Free downloadable resources, and lots of them
• All the audio for all our readers
• This is just the beginning…
Please tell us…
• What you want to see on the site
• How you are using the site
• If you are having technical issues (help.macmillan.com)
http://www.macmillanyounglearners.com/
http://www.macmillanyounglearners.com/readers/
Paul Drury