Boosting learners’ reading skills: Practical ideas for busy teachers

Your situation

I enjoy helping learners develop their reading skills

It's hard to find interesting texts

Reading takes too long and is a poor use of class time

It's difficult to motivate learners

There's a range of ability levels

Good readers

read regularly

read a wide range of things

reflect on what they read

use different reading skills

guess the meaning of unknown words

record and reuse new vocabulary

What do readers need to know about the text?

Text type

Who it was written for?

Who it was written by?

Why?

Working with text

Skimming

Highlighting key information

Scanning the text

Explaining why options are correct/incorrect