(A) Reading Is Its Own Reward The learners' experience of reading the text is at the center of the extensive reading experience, just as it is reading in everyday life. For this reason, extensive reading is not usually followed by comprehension questions. It is an experience (56) in itself. At the same time, teachers may ask students to complete follow-up activities based on their reading. The reasons for this are (57) : to find out what the student understood and experienced from the reading; to monitor students' attitudes toward reading; to keep track of what and how much students read; to make reading a shared experience; to link reading to other aspects of the curriculum. (58) , students may be asked to do such things as write about their favorite characters, write about the best or worst book they have read, or do a dramatic reading of an exciting part of a novel. Such activities, while respecting the (59) of students' reading experiences, extend them in interesting and useful ways. 8