May 22, 2009
Wybie, short for Wyborn
We've been encouraging many of our students to see the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's children's fantasy novel, Coraline. For those students who →
Category: Readings
April 15, 2009
Coraline arrives in Hong Kong on April 30th – mark your calendars!
Above: Coraline poster photographed hanging in the lobby of the cinema in the IFC on April 14.
The film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's award-winning →
January 8, 2009
Coraline film adaptation to open in US theaters soon!
In less than a month, the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline, starring Dakota Fanning as the voice of Coraline Jones, will open in American →
October 17, 2007
Quiz Time! (class features series)
At Accella, every class begins with a brief quiz that covers the grammar and vocabulary introduced in the previous lesson.
Here's a snapshot Sunday →
October 9, 2007
Balloon time! (class features series)
Above: DaisyL reading her copy of The Movie Star Mystery (a children's reader based on the Nancy Drew feature film that hit US theatres this past June) →
April 8, 2007
Welcome Lillian! Keep Moving Forward!
Here's Lillian answering comprehension questions after reading a Meet the Robinsons storybook, Keep Moving Forward. The Meet the Robinsons film is →
January 17, 2007
No peeking!
Here we have some photos of last weekend's P2 English class. To increase their retention of new vocabulary that's introduced in the reader, after →
January 2, 2007
English Cross-training, Charlotte’s Web Reading Comprehension
In the photo above, Dylan is taking a turn writing an answer to a reading comprehension question (based on the Charlotte's Web reader that we'd been →
December 8, 2006
Who is Charlotte – the pig or the spider?
We've completed the set of sight words readers that we were using in our P1 classes this semester and are now working from one of a series of books →