It is hard to make students read. Teachers struggle to motivate their students to read, and they get frustrated when they assign them to read a text, a chapter in a novel or even a short story at home, then they find almost none of them read the assigned text. They end up reading the text with the students in class. All over the world there are too many students who find reading classes boring and demotivating. Teachers think that the students are unmotivated to read just because they are “lazy”, “not interested in the topic”, or that they “don’t like reading”. However, the golden key for solving this problem is simply the “pre-reading” stage. This session will focus on how to motivate students to read and will highlight some ideas to prepare students for reading.