21st Century Reading was created through a partnership between TED, a nonprofit dedicated to spreading ideas through short, powerful talks and National Geographic Learning. 21st Century Reading provides the ideal forum for learners of English to make connections with topics ranging from science to business to global issues. Using TED Talks as the springboard to share ideas, this new four-level reading series shows learners how to understand and respond to ideas and content in English.
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Big English Plus engages students with rich and varied content, encourages progress with ongoing review and assessment and helps develop independent learning and critical thinking with challenging activities. More reading, More grammar, More exam preparation.
Speed Reading: 17 Powerful Speed Reading Techniques to Increase Your Reading Speed
Students, business persons or anyone who needs to read a lot of material quickly will enjoy Speed Reading. In just 20 minutes – about the time it would take an average reader to skim through the book – you can gain the tools needed to dramatically increase your reading speed. Not only that, you can learn basic principles for increasing your ability to comprehend and retain the material that you read. Common wisdom has it that speed reading misses the point of reading, and that it takes the fun out of reading. Speed reading explains how reading more quickly and more efficiently can actually make reading for pleasure even more fun than before.
Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction
TEACH YOUR STUDENTS TO READ LIKE CHAMPIONS WITH RIGOR, INDEPENDENCE, PRECISION, AND INSIGHT The world we are preparing our students to succeed in is one bound together by words and phrases. Our students learn their literature, history, math, science, or art via a firm foundation of strong reading skills. When we teach students to read with precision, rigor, and insight, we are truly handing over the key to the kingdom. Of all the subjects we teach reading is first among equals.
1800 TOEFL Essential Vocabulary A list of 1800 essential words with definitions and examples, using frequent TOEFL topic categories, is presented for ESL students preparing to take the TOEFL. Students are likely to think that the more words they know, the better grades they earn. Meanwhile, it is impossible to know all the words presented in real TOEFL because they do not have enough time to prepare the test as well as enough skills to solve the questions perfectly.
