This doctoral research aims to measure and promote reading skills and reading motivation among Flemish students in a classical language course. A first research goal is to map current reading didactics in classical language education through an extensive survey of Latin and Greek teachers. The second aim is to promote the reading motivation, reading quantity and reading comprehension of 16 year old Latin and Greek students through the implementation of extensive reading. Through a pretest-posttest intervention study, with an experimental group and a control group, we investigate the impact of the reading of novellas (easy readers) on students' vocabulary knowledge, reading comprehension (in the classical languages and in Dutch) and reading motivation. The research should culminate in concrete recommendations for teachers on how they can help positively develop their students' reading attitudes and reading strategy.