This document provides instructions for an extensive reading assignment where students are expected to read 60,000 words outside of class from graded readers, which are short, level-appropriate books. Students can earn up to 10% of their final grade by passing quizzes on books read through the Mreader.org website. They must choose books where they understand 95% of the words to improve reading speed and enjoyment. Students are warned that cheating on the quizzes, such as getting help from others, will result in lost points and could affect their final grade.

1. Extensive Reading Assignment

2. Intensive vs. Extensive Reading
Intensive reading – reading in detail with specific
learning aims and tasks.
• This is what we will do in class.
Extensive reading - reading longer texts (e.g. books) for
pleasure and to develop general reading skills.
• You will do this by yourself outside of class.

3. Benefits of Extensive Reading
• increase reading speed
• improve reading comprehension (understanding)
• development of grammatical and vocabulary
knowledge
• improvement of writing skills
• improvement of listening & speaking skills

4. Benefits of Extensive Reading

5. Assignment
During the semester:
• read 60,000+ words (approximately six books)
• minimum five books (but you can read more!)
• ‘graded readers’ – short books (fiction & non-fiction) with
different levels of difficulty

6. Which level?
To improve your reading speed and enjoyment:
• choose books where you know about 95% of the words
• about 1 in 20 words should be unfamiliar (1 word every
2 or 3 lines)
• too easy  boring!
• too difficult  not enjoyable to read, and too much
time stopping to look up words in the dictionary

7. Where?
Borrow them from:
Yonsei Central Library
Humanities Books section – 2nd floor
OR
Buy them from:
Yonsei bookstore, Kyobo, Bandi & Luni’s etc…

8. Grades
Worth 10% of your final grade
• 2 points per 12,000 words
• 30,000 words before midterm exam period; total 60,000+ by the
end of the semester (minimum five books)
How to get points:
• pass the book quiz on Mreader.org (DO THIS BY YOURSELF!)
• only one chance to do the quiz
• 15 minutes per quiz (you can look at the book while doing the
quiz)
• DON’T open the quiz until you are ready to do it!!
• maximum one quiz every 24 hours

9. Don’t Cheat!
• The goal of the Mreader quiz is to check your reading
comprehension – therefore you must do the reading
quiz by yourself!!
• Don’t get help from a friend or help a friend to do the quiz – this
is cheating.
• I can track cheating, and if you cheat, you will not get points for
reading the book – this means you could lose up to 10% from
your final grade!!
• Important: I won’t tell you during the semester if I catch cheating
– you will only find out at the end. You won’t get a chance to
make up the missed points.

10. Mreader.org

11. Register
Access code: find it on nicolateacher.com/moodle
Your ID number: Yonsei ID # (e.g. 2103123456)
** Your login will be: YON-[ID #] (e.g. YON-2013123456) **

12. Student page

13. View available quizzes
You can search books by:
genre, publisher, fiction/non-fiction, images/words and level
Images:

14. View available quizzes
Words:

15. Happy reading!