Advanced Reading Power 4: Extensive Reading, Vocabulary Building, Comprehensive Skills, Reading Fluency - Couverture souple

Jeffries, Linda; Mikulecky, Beatrice S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0133047172 ISBN 13 : 9780133047172

Editeur : Pearson Education (US), 2014

Synopsis

The new Advanced Reading Power 4 offers a strategic, student-based approach to the teaching of reading that encourages users to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise. This edition retains the original four-part structure unique to the Reading Power series, focusing on Extensive Reading, Vocabulary Building, Comprehension Skills and Reading Fluency.

New to the Second Edition:

• More self-directed vocabulary-building tasks embedded in exercises.
• Updated vocabulary-learning strategies based on current research.
• New content organized around current issues relating to the Western lifestyle (social, economic, public health, environmental), with an emphasis on academic text types.
• Enhanced focus on critical thinking and academic skills.
• Targeted vocabulary items selected from frequency word list based on the Pearson International Corpus of Academic English (including both general and academic English).
• Appendix with word list for student and teacher reference.

Reading Power's unique methodology teaches students to view reading as a process. The series encourages students to develop a strategic approach to reading and to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise.

• Extensive Reading helps students build reading fluency, increase comprehension, and broaden vocabulary.
• Vocabulary Building includes numerous strategies for learning vocabulary, including using context clues, analyzing word parts, and noticing collocations.
• Comprehension Skills teaches scanning, making predictions and inferences, recognizing patterns of organization, identifying genre, skimming, and critical reading.
• Reading Fluency features high-interest, nonfiction selections that help students improve their reading rate and flexibility.
  

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

The new Advanced Reading Power 4 offers a strategic, student-based approach to the teaching of reading that encourages users to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise. This edition retains the original four-part structure unique to the Reading Power series, focusing on Extensive Reading, Vocabulary Building,Comprehension Skills and Reading Fluency.

 

New to the Second Edition:

• More self-directed vocabulary-building tasks embedded in exercises.
• Updated vocabulary-learning strategies based on current research.
• New content organized around current issues relating to the Western lifestyle (social, economic, public health, environmental), with an emphasis on academic text types.
• Enhanced focus on critical thinking and academic skills.
• Targeted vocabulary items selected from frequency word list based on the Pearson International Corpus of Academic English (including both general and academic English).
• Appendix with word list for student and teacher reference.

Reading Power’s unique methodology teaches students to view reading as a process. The series encourages students to develop a strategic approach to reading and to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise.

• Extensive Reading helps students build reading fluency, increase comprehension, and broaden vocabulary.
• Vocabulary Building includes numerous strategies for learning vocabulary, including using context clues, analyzing word parts, and noticing collocations.
• Comprehension Skills teaches scanning, making predictions and inferences, recognizing patterns of organization, identifying genre, skimming, and critical reading.
• Reading Fluency features high-interest, nonfiction selections that help students improve their reading rate and flexibility.
  

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education (US)
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0133047172
• ISBN 13: 9780133047172
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible