Revathi Viswanathan, India
Developing reading skills among students refers to training them to use various strategies relating to the skill. It is possible to use the resources available on the internet for such training programmes.

[1]Discuss the given topic with the students in the classroom.
[2]Select tasks from the web which would help the students to use the reading strategies. For example, tasks which deal with strategies such as advance preparation, resourcing, contextualisation and inferencing can be given.
[3] Encourage them to do the tasks, by giving them the particular web sites, in pairs or individually.
[4] Instruct them to maintain a diary to record what they have learnt. Remember to check their diary periodically.
[5]Encourage them to learn the prescribed topic, which you have discussed in the beginning, by using the above strategies.

Though the above mentioned tasks are general ones, i.e. not related to the prescribed topic, the training will make the students aware of the various reading strategies. Further they will become autonomous learners.

Sergiy Tyupa, Ukraine
One of the ways to make reading classes interesting and develop not only reading skills is to introduce open-ended stories, where students have to make up the ending on their own. This means that they would have to read the story very carefully and find specific details that indicate what the ending might be like. In activities like that students use their analytical skills, develop writing skills and later on discuss their endings with the class and learn to defend their point of view. It's also a lot of fun to compare their work with the original endings!

Gail Schafers, USA
I have been using articles from weekly news magazines such as Time or The Week. You can choose topics which are of interest to your students, the articles are generally short, the students practice reading non-fiction (the type of reading on the TOEFL test), the articles are current, and the vocabulary is advanced. After reading the article as homework, the students write a reaction paper to the content of the article or we have a class discussion about it.

Sirikorn, Thailand
The main problem with reading in class is that the subject doesn't interest the student enough. The teacher should select appropriate subjects to motivate them. Most students focus on understanding each word, rather than on imagining the wider meaning of the reading. You can help them by working in small groups or with a partner to share their idea about the reading subject first. And the important thing is that let them read by understanding, not translating.