Extensive Reading Activities for Teaching Language

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This lively collection of more than 100 classroom activities provides teachers with engaging ways to incorporate extensive reading into their classrooms. The creative and fun speaking, listening, role-play, reading, writing, and vocabulary activities, all linking reading to the rest of the curriculum, are suitable for students of all ages and levels. Teachers will find this handbook a valuable resource not just for reading courses, but for all types of language courses.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Part I Activities for all classes
• 1 Getting started
• 2 Introducing reading material
• 3 Motivating and supporting reading
• 4 Monitoring and evaluating
• Part II Activities for developing oral fluency
• 5 Reporting reading
• 6 Drama and role play
• 7 Having fun
• Part III Activities for writing
• 8 Reporting reading
• 9 Writing creatively
• Part IV Activities for reading
• 10 Developing awareness
• 11 Increasing reading rate
• Part V Activities for vocabulary development
• Part VI Activities for looking at culture and society