Laptops and Easy books for school in Bulgaria
Bokpil and author Sabira Stahlberg have engaged in a campaign to provide computers for distance learning to the school in Golyamo Novo village, Bulgaria.
Easy literature and availability
Availability is a popular word today and it is used in many kinds of contexts. Easy to Read offers the possibility to acquire written information and knowledge in an easier language. What does availability mean for Easy to Read literature?
Language level or age group?
Which age group is the book for? This question is common, but for Easy to Read literature there is no simple answer. Language and knowledge levels and interests, more than the reader’s age, define which book is suitable.
Easy language, difficult topic?
An Easy language book can deal with a difficult topic. A paradox? The question of easy and difficult is in reality about different aspects: readability and content.
To write Easy books
Author, researcher and international trainer, Sabira Stahlberg, PhD, has written over twenty Easy to Read books and dozens of academic, popular science and fiction works. What inspires an academic and fiction author to write Easy to Read books?
Easy pictures
The aim of Easy books is to support and encourage reading. Therefore both the book design and the pictures are simple and clear. The reader can fully concentrate on the text.
Language learning and Easy books
The step from the standardized language in a textbook to everyday spoken and written language could seems enormous. Easy to Read books can however bridge the gap between learning and using a language.
Easy books and minority learners part III
Teaching English to minority learners proved to be a challenge, especially when the learners had to get acquainted with new methods of learning at the same time.
Easy books and minority learners part II
My pupils in Bulgaria were used to a more traditional form of teaching. I wanted to propose my learning activities through new methodologies, which could motivate and inspire them.
Easy books and minority learners part I
My experience with Easy to Read books started a few years ago. I went to Bulgaria as a volunteer, helping minority pupils to learn English through new teaching approaches.
Edu Bokpil: New website for extra materials
Now it is online! Edu Bokpil is our new website for extra materials.
We have collected materials and suggestions for tasks on a single website.
Let’s food!
In my Swedish class at the university, we recently had a chance to explore the magnificent world of culinary arts through the book “The heart of the cook”. Inspired by the main character’s story I decided to share some of my thoughts about the words cooking and passion. By Petar Jocković