23.- EXTENSIVE
THE LEARNER LITERATURE AWARDS
And the winner might be?
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to say to
students, “Read this graded reader. The
story makes you want to read to the end to find out what happens!” The judges for the 2011 Extensive Reading
Foundation Learner Literature Awards have
selected the finalists from the 72 books nominated this year by 14 different
publishers. The judges have found some books that learners would love to
read. Here are comments that judges
made about some of the books:
An excellent storyline with very good
development of characters, this story is pitched at the right level. It will appeal to the major target group of
readership, young adults. The issues in this book will have positive, lasting
effects on readers. This book is hard to put down as it takes you on unexpected
paths.
A clever story of a young girl who makes a time
capsule for a school project. But something very unusual happens ….
This was one of the more interesting
non-fiction readers we have come across for a long time. It will be of interest
to most young adult readers.
Which books are they talking about? They could be any of the finalists in the
five categories: young learners, and adolescents and adults at beginner,
elementary, intermediate, and upper Intermediate and advanced levels. The nominees for each category are…
Young learners - Aladdin (Macmillan
English Explorers), Animals In Art (
Adolescents and adults: Beginners – The Game
(ILTS/ Hueber Verlag), Just So Stories (Black Cat), Under the Bridge (Pearson
Longman Penguin Readers).
Adolescents and adults: Elementary – The Black
Night (ILTS/Hueber Verlag), A Little Trouble in
Adolescents and adults: Intermediate - The Everest Story (
Adolescents and adults: Upper Intermediate and
advanced - Dragons' Eggs (
Now we need to know what teachers and learners
think of these books to help pick overall winners for each category. Online voting opens in late April at http://www.erfoundation.org/erf/
and closes in July. The winners will be
announced in August.
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