How to encourage extensive reading?

Reading is a receptive skill that help people to learn more about the world, and for English learners reading is a excellent way to improve vocabulary and develop fluency in speaking and coherence and cohesion in writing. In addition reading help students to develop critical thinking and creativity. Despite of all these benefits students do not like to read, beacuse of that it is necessary to encourage students to practice extensive reading it means reading for pleasure, and how to do that?

• First it will be great to let students to choose the book they want to read  according to their interest but helping them to choose a book according to their level. 
• Before reading the book make students predict what the text will be about by looking the cover page. 
• Ask students to read outside the classroom in their favorite place.
• Then ask students to give a summary or dramatize the part of the text they like the most if is a story to check comprehension. 
• Present to students videos about the great benefits of reading

Thus, students will be more engaged and interested in reading and then they will prove that reading is the base to develop the other skills (listening, speaking and writing) and the base to improve their English. 

REFERENCES: 

• Mary Spratt, A. P. (2011). The TKT Teaching Knowledge Test Course Modules 1, 2 and 3. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press
• The benefits of extensive reading. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHNagtIfV9Y