Teaching and Developing Reading Skills
Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

This book is for anyone who wants to provide their learners with rich and rewarding reading experiences.

Peter Watkins (Author)

9781316647318, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 December 2017

300 pages
24.7 x 18.9 x 1.7 cm, 0.6 kg

This book is for anyone who wants to provide their learners with rich and rewarding reading experiences. Drawing on current reading theory, the book promotes the teaching of reading in a theoretically sound way, moving beyond a comprehension-testing approach to reading. The practical part of the book provides a collection of accessible, generic activities so that teachers can support and develop learners' reading skills and strategies. Its scope is wide-ranging, from promoting reading and developing fluency, to exploiting digital sources, using learner-generated texts and assessing reading. Further activities support teachers develop excellence in the teaching of reading through guided reflection and action research.

Subject Areas: ELT resource books for teachers [EBAR]