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Ready to Read More: A Skills-Based Reader - Couverture souple

Blanchard, Karen; Root, Christine

 
9780131776494: Ready to Read More: A Skills-Based Reader

Synopsis

Features:

  • Reading skills include identifying main ideas, previewing and predicting, recognizing sequence, and making inferences.
  • Extensive practice in recycling and application of newly learned skills with high-interest reading selections.
  • Practice with word parts, synonyms and antonyms, idioms, compound words, dictionary use, and word maps.

Skills are supported by graphics, examples, and short texts that illustrate concepts and provide additional opportunities for practice and discussion. Ready to Read is the perfect series to prepare students for success in academic reading and test taking.

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À propos de l'auteur

Karen Blanchard and Christine Root each have taught English language instruction at the university level for more than twenty years. Karen has an M.S.Ed in TESOL from the University of Pennsylvania, and Christine has an M.Ed in English Education from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. They began their textbook collaboration with the Ready to Write series while they were lecturers at the University of Pennsylvania. They have since written many reading and writing skills books and continue to enjoy working together to create English language textbooks for students around the world.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Ready to Read More: A Skills-Based Reader, by Karen Blanchard and Christine Root, is a part of a three-level series designed to develop reading and vocabulary building skills. In Ready to Read More, high-intermediate students progress step by step through task-based activities that promote reading competency and fluency, leading to academic and test-taking success.

 

Features

  • Sharpen Your Reading Skills provides explicit instruction in reading skills as well as extensive practice and recycling.
  • Be an Active Reader activities encourage reading with a purpose.
  • As You Read features high-interest readings that allow students to apply their skills.
  • Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills includes practice with prefixes, suffixes, compound words, and collocations.
  • Evaluate Your Ideas, Share Your Thoughts, and Explore the Web extend and enrich the reading experience.
  • Go Beyond the Text helps students apply the readings to real-life experiences.

 The Ready to Read series also includes Get Ready to Read and Ready to Read Now.

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