Richard Day, Jennifer Bassett, Bill Bowler, Sue Parminter, Nick Bullard, Mark Furr, Nina Prentice, Minas Mahmood, Daniel Stewart, Thomas Robb Extensive Reading, revised edition

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Extensive Reading - revised edition is the ideal companion for teachers who would like to add the substantial benefits of extensive reading to their language programmes. It explains the research that shows how reading for pleasure helps learners to improve their English, and guides teachers through the different approaches they can use, focusing on: The importance of extensive free readingHow extensive reading materials are developed and how to choose the right graded readers for the classIntroducing and exploiting class readersDeveloping class librariesSetting up and running reading circlesIn addition, five extensive reading case studies describe projects in a range of learning environments. Extra resources are available on the website: www.oup.com/elt/teacher/itc