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- Let students choose topics and texts they like and get them hooked onto a series.
- Introduce stories and recommend good books/films in class. You may also invite students to share/recommend books/films to others.
- Read/view one text as a whole class to model/teach strategies to help students select, reflect upon and respond to appropriate texts.
- Encourage students to read for general understanding. Do not concentrate too much on individual words as the word-by-word approach can hinder comprehension and interest of reading.
- Allow students to read at different levels at different times - some material that is well within their comfort zone, and some that is slightly beyond it. It is better for students to enjoy what they read than to be bored or uninterested.
- Encourage students to watch a movie on certain topics and also read books related to such topics.
- Create and encourage a reading culture in school and reward the best readers at the end of the school year.
- Organise a book display or a book corner for good books or students' extensive reading-related work, e.g. book cover designs, posters, etc.
- Make the follow-up reading activity simple, manageable and interesting. Filling out simple reading-logs is preferable to writing long book reports. For more ideas on extensive reading activities, please refer to Bamford & Day, 2004 or visit the SBA consultants' website.
- Organise activities which promote reading, e.g. story-telling competitions, drama competitions, book exhibitions, best readers of the class, inter-class/form reading marathon to see which class/form can read the largest number of books, etc.
- Be a good model yourself and share with students what you have been reading.
- Encourage parents to ask about their children's reading progress, to help them choose texts, and even, if possible, to read or watch films with their children and discuss what they have read - in any language!
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 To view the challenges of motivating students to read mentioned by Dr Vivienne Yu and her solutions to overcome the challenges. |
| To view other suggestions provided by Dr Vivienne Yu for teachers to implement ERS. |
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To view Ms Wendy Leung talking about a good teaching activity conducted by a local secondary school teacher to encourage students to read.
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| To view Ms Wendy Leung talking about parents' roles in ERS |
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