Grammar

Long sentences

Slang and idioms

Slow reading speed

Create a family tree of the characters in a story.

Show the passage of time in a story using a flow chart.

Use study guides in English and giving brief information about the background of reading texts.

Demonstrate how to use dictionaries—English-Japanese and English-English, including O.E.D.

Utilizing English-English dictionaries as often as possible.

Encouraging the students to read more and more.

Having students guess the meaning of words from the context.

Reading newspaper articles which deal with popular or hot topics (2)

Hardly ever doing English-Japanese translation

English grammar

Reading class is too boring, so I try to make the class interesting.

Give the students interesting books and make them read a lot.

read->translate->discuss

I'd try to use more than one author. I wouldn't use a collection of stories by one author, in case students didn't like that author.

I would give the students an interesting book and make them read a lot.

If I were to teach a reading course, I would not assign students to translate from English into Japanese.

I would rather use set a theme at the start of the class and use materials that are related to the selected theme. Not random.

I would teach skills that help students when they read books. (like skimming, scanning, and so on).