Teaching and Developing Reading Skills (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers)

About this book

Supported by insights from research this accessible book promotes the teaching of reading in a theoretically sound way moving beyond a comprehension-testing approach. The practical part of the book provides a collection of accessible generic activities to support and develop learners reading skills and strategies. Its scope is wide-ranging from promoting reading and developing fluency to exploiting literary texts and digital sources using learner-generated texts developing critical reading skills and assessing reading.