���...it appears that Story-Listening and SSR meet these requirements. Stories can be made comprehensible to second language acquirers through the use of Comprehension-Aiding Supplementation applied to words and phrases that acquirers may have difficulty understanding.”
Foundations for Story-Listening: Some Basics
Language Issues, 1(4), 1-5.
“…the best way to ensure progress in a second language is to provide “optimal input,” input that is comprehensible, highly interesting, and provides large quantities of rich second language input. "
@alfiekohn I think that students find reading logs a burden when reading is forced, and when they are not experiencing pleasure. I think that the reading teacher's role is to guide them to become self-selected readers.
@skrashen From Wikipedia: "...He devoted his waking hours to mathematics, even into his later years—indeed, his death came only hours after he solved a geometry problem at a conference in Warsaw..."
From worst to best:
Curriculum designed by...
1) distant authorities
2) teacher, well in advance
3) teacher, for these particular students
4) teacher, WITH these particular students