Do you feel that your students aren’t listening as carefully as they used to? Modern technology and the fast pace of life are partly to blame. How can we help our students to pay attention and really listen?

Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina will demonstrate practical ways to help your students become better listeners – and better speakers. Learn a variety of listening strategies using vocabulary, grammar, songs, and stories from their new course, Everybody Up 2nd Edition.

We should teach in ways best suited to the subject we are teaching. Since we use multiple senses when using language, the most effective teaching techniques will also be multisensory. When students have limited contact with English each week, we also want to try and include listening, speaking, reading and writing in every class.

Phonics is often thought of as a dry, bottom-up approach to learning to read and write, focusing on discrete skills at the expense of a rich literary environment. Is this truly the case, however? Join Oxford Phonics World co-author Kaj Schwermer as we explore how fluency, active learning and critical thinking play an integral and essential role at every stage of an effective early literacy program.

Stories bring learning to life. Stories elevate, motivate, engage, enhance and empower.
In this presentation, experienced teacher and master storyteller Kevin Churchley will unlock the power of the Oxford Reading Tree and equip participants with the skills to deliver compelling storytelling sessions with confidence in their own classroom.