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Newspaper stories
Using newspapers in class is a very good idea. The language is authentic, and students should get used to reading newspapers as that's one easy way of continuing their studies outside class.
To make reading newspaper articles more communicative, one thing you can do is cut up the newspaper headline into how ever many words are in it, and give those to groups of three or four students to put together. Explain to them that there may be more than one way of putting the headline together. You don't care how they do it, as long as it's accurate and make sense. Hell, even if it doesn't make sense, as long as it's accurate, it'll be fine.
Once that's done, put the headline on the board and try to get students to predict what the story will be about. Brainstorm a list of ideas onto the board and then give students the reading passage and see who can identify the correct summary first.
By doing all this, you are creating interest in the reading passage, and students will then be less daunted and bored by the prospect of reading.

Improving speed reading
The need to be able to read quickly, utilizing the famed strategies of skimming and scanning is clear. How to enable students to do it effectively is not so clear. One way to do it is to give students a reading passage and give them a time limit in which to read through the passage and find the answers to various questions. This works well in principle, but, especially if the student gets the answers wrong, we don't really know whether they skimmed through or scanned the whole passage or just intensively read the first part and then guessed! The only way to force students to read at speed is to take away parts of the passage after a few seconds or minutes. This, clearly, is impractical, unless of course you have a computer plugged into a projector, in which case it's easy to scroll down a passage steadily, forcing students to read more quickly.
A cheaper alternative is to make use of either subtitles in films or the end credits of films which always scroll up from the bottom of the film. By making up a worksheet with questions such as:
Who played Cat woman?
How many stunt actors were there?
What was the name of the orchestra that played the music for the film?
Who was the dubbing mixer?
What job does Bob Simpkins do?

Helpful tips for busy teachers, arranged by skill
Grammar
Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension
Listening Comprehension
Writing
Speaking
Pronunciation