Akio FURUKAWA
SEG/SSS
About
I graduted mathematics department of University of Tokyo, I have been teaching math to senior high school stddents for over 50 years. I found SSS extensive reading study group in 2001 and since then I developped YL system for grade readers and authenic books. I also started teaching English through extensive reaging at my juku SEG in 2006. There are more than 2000 students who registers our extensive reading program this year.Sessions
School How to Conduct a 6-year Extensive Reading Program more
We have been conducting a 6-year Extensive Reading program for grade 7 to grade 12 students since 2006. Our ER program is divided into 3 stages. The first stage takes students from beginners to being able to read Oxford Bookworms Level 1. The second stage involves students reading YL 2.0-4.0 graded readers such as Cambridge English Readers Level 2 to 4 and children’s chapter books such as the Magic Tree House series. The third and final stage is when students read children’s books and young adult books such as Harry Potter, Holes, and House of Night, whose YLs are higher than 4.5. In each stage, we will show you what points we pay attention to, what books we use, what difficulties weaker learners face, and how many years students need to get from one stage to the next.