Reading Resources for ELT

To improve students' reading comprehension, teachers should introduce the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and visualizing-organizing. This article includes definitions of the seven strategies and a lesson-plan template for teaching each one.

Sue Leather explains the four essentials needed to set up your extensive reading programme No one disputes the benefits of extensive reading (ER) for English students. There is a substantial body of evidence supporting using graded readers as an effective way for students to be exposed to comprehensible input, through which they can acquire vocabulary and

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