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My Little Pony Make Your Mark I Can Read!

The HarperCollins I Can Read! My Little Pony book series features pony characters from the Hasbro my little pony franchise. These books have been a big hit in my house because my children love the fifth generation of My Little Pony from the Netflix show Make Your Mark. How Accessible is The Language in the My Little Pony Books? The books are rated at level 1 and 2 of the I Can Read! series. I thought that this rating was too low because there are some difficult words to decode and I would have placed them all at level two or three. The names of places are on the longer side like Equestria but the children were already familiar with these from watching the TV show.  The biggest accessibility issue with these books are the "pony puns". Several equine word plays are used. For example, instead of everybody, anybody, nobody and somebody the books use everypony, anypony, nopony, somepony. The maritime area is called maretime bay, the 5 main ponies are called the mane 5. For emergen...
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GTEC Speaking Reading Aloud Timed Practice CBT

The first part of of the GTEC (Global Test of English Communication) speaking section is a timed reading practice. The GTEC speaking exam is a computer based test (CBT) this means that tablets are used to record the students oral responses.

For the read aloud section students are required to read the materials that they are presented with aloud, no creativity or critical thinking is required. Students are given 30 seconds to look at the passage before being prompted to record themselves reading it. They have 40 seconds to read the whole passage. 

With a little preparation (1 lesson) the read aloud section of the GTEC speaking exam should give test takers an opportunity to warm up and feel confident in their English speaking ability before they move on to the next three, more demanding speaking sections.

The other sections in the GTEC speaking test are interacting with others, telling a story and expressing an opinion.

This lesson bundle includes 

✅　A PowerPoint presentation which teaches best practices for students to utilise in order to optimism their 30 second preparation time. 

✅　A worksheet that can printed or distributed digitally for students to highlight key words and breathing places in the passage. 

✅　4 timed read aloud practice tests for students to practice the test in real time. These practice tests are in a PowerPoint format. Students should view the tests in slide show mode to use the build in timer function. 

✅　The same 4 read aloud speaking practice test are also included in a printable / digitally distributable format. They can be used with a stopwatch or classroom timer. 


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