Professional Development

for English Teachers

The 30th P.A.R.K. Conference

What do successful readers do?

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Sandy Millin

KEY WORDSreading, skills, sub-skills, literacy

AGE GROUPSyoung learners, teens, young adults, adults

CEFR LEVELSB1, B2, C1, C2

AUDIENCEmixed

As teachers, we’re often guilty of testing our students’ reading abilities through comprehension questions, without actually supporting them to become better readers. But where should we start? How can you move beyond a comprehension focus and help students to become the best readers of English that they can be? What might be stopping them from developing? In this talk, I'll look at what good readers do and demonstrate how to support students to build those skills for themselves.

Sandy is a freelance teacher trainer, materials writer and teacher. She regularly presents both online and face-to-face, but it all started at a PARK conference in 2009. She writes a blog at http://sandymillin.wordpress.com and is on LinkedIn. She has self-published three books (ELT Playbook 1, ELT Playbook Teacher Training and Richer Speaking) and is the creator of the Take Your Time DELTA courses. She is proud to be an IATEFL Ambassador.