Extensive Reading Activities for Teaching Language

Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

by Julian Bamford (Editor), Richard R. Day (Editor), Penny Ur (Series Editor)

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.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Teaching

226 pages, Paperback

First published August 16, 2004

Reviews

[Siobhan Markwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Heavily slanted towards EFL rather than ESOL and at slightly higher levels, though there are activities that will suit every type and level of learner in here. There are hundreds of activities, each with detailed notes, and lots of pre-prepared questionnaires and information boxes for use with students. They aren't in a photocopiable format however so be prepared to retype them yourself or do some amateurish but time-saving cut-and-pasting if you want to use them. They have a copyright notice at the bottom of each one, so if you cut and paste, remember to include it folks!

[Khari · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was quite a useful and interesting book.

It doesn't really go into any theory of extensive reading, but it gives lots of examples of activities that you can do in class to encourage extensive reading and add more structure to class.

It gave me a lot of ideas to add to my own class, so I highly recommend it.

[Nguyen Le · Rating 5 out of 5]

Add to my Go-to teaching reading strategies!

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[Wsclai · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful book with practical manuals of activities for teachers who are teaching or wish to start extensive reading in class. A must-have for language teachers.