Teacher's Sourcebook for Extensive Reading (Hc)

The best way for students to learn to read and to come to love reading is - surprisesurprise - by reading in quantity. Unfortunately many of today's students read far toolittle. This lack of time spent reading is particularly unfortunate as reading constitutes abedrock skill essential in all subject areas. Thus we teachers need to devotecurriculum time to not only teaching students how to read but also to encouraging themto read extensively. This is what Extensive Reading is all about.Teachers Sourcebook for Extensive Reading provides hundreds of teacher tested ideason how to do Extensive Reading. The book begins with an introduction to 'the what'and 'the why' of Extensive Reading. Thereafter the book consists of three parts. Part 1discusses finding materials for Extensive Reading. Part 2 offers ideas for motivatingstudents to read and for activities that students might do after they read or while they are reading including cooperativelearning activities. Part 3 looks at how teachers can serve as advocates for Extensive Reading.Among the book's distinctive features are breaks for reflection first person accounts from teachers and ideas for doingAction Research and other forms of teacher investigation and research on Extensive Reading. We hope that you will findthe Teachers Sourcebook for Extensive Reading to be a practical book but also informed by theory and researh. We alsohope this book will make a difference for your students in their test scores and even more in their attitude toward readingnow and in the future.