Hello everyone!

I just uploaded a set of slides on SlideShare.

http://www.slideshare.net/MamoruTakahashi

You'll find the questions I used to promote extensive reading in my class. It is mostly written in Japanese. It took the whole last semester to ask these questions. The most time-consuming part was that I had to write a comment on the students' answers, but that was also fun.

How did I ask questions to students every week? How did I collect the answers?
Good question. I used the News Forum function of our Moodle. I asked a couple of questions on every Tuesday morning and wrote my feedback in the afternoon.

Moodle is a free CMS (course management system). Once it is installed in the server of your school, you can use it as if you're using Facebook or Twitter. You can easily use it. I'm not exaggerating.

If you are interested in ER (Extensive Reading) and you'd like to stimulate your students with questions, you can use my questions. These questions mostly come from mostly Donalyn Miller's Reading in the Wild and Teri Lesene's Naked Reading.

All right. Happy Obon!

Bobby