Building on the interview with Adriana Ramirez in Episode 23 on using novels and reading to motivate our language students, this episode focuses on 11 zero-prep practical strategies for the languages classroom aimed at growing a love and passion for reading among your students:

  1. Class novels

  2. Free Voluntary Reading (FVR)

  3. Embedded readings & extended readings

  4. Volleyball reading

​5. Read to parents and translate

  1. The reading diary

  2. Reading with laser and making new sentences

  3. Reading and underlining all things you understand & Inventing questions with no answer

  4. Highlighting the 1 key phrase and explaining why

  5. Readers theater & Emotional reading

  6. Boys and girls reading

For full details a list of these strategies, check out the programme notes with further information and links to research and resources at www.liamprinter.com/podcast.

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