EXPLORATIONS is a textbook for high-beginning students in universities, language institutes, adult education programs and high schools. The focus is on developing reading skills. The text is interactive in its approach to language study. Each chapter is based on particular topic and contains Pre-reading and Main-reading activities.
Helping Children with Reading and Spelling contains a basic kit of suggestions to help children who struggle with learning to read and spell. The materials build on the content of an earlier manual, Learning Difficulties in Reading and Writing, which has been widely and successfully used by teachers. The detailed teaching sequences, combining the enjoyment of content with the more systematic practice of subskills, which were particularly appreciated in the earlier volume, have been further developed here.
Its practical A4 format, photocopiable materials and case examples make this an invaluable handbook for day to day use in the classroom.
Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (11th Edition)
Remaining one of the best-selling interdisciplinary composition texts for over twenty-five years, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum helps readers of all majors and interests learn to write effectively for college. This rhetoric and reader guides students through the essential college-level writing skills of summary, critique, synthesis, and analysis.
Take two to four kids, give them a basket of books that go together in some way, and then provide time for them to read, think, and talk together about their ideas, their questions, their wonderings. That's the simple recipe for a reading club, and Kathy Collins demonstrates the powerful results in her new book, Reading for Real. She writes, "The reading clubs I describe are a formal structure providing students with time to read and talk about books with a high level of engagement, purpose, and joy."
Learn to read and recall more written information in less time. Work Smarter with Speed Reading is a practical guide to effective speed reading. It includes tools and information on a variety of reading and memory techniques, including a five-step strategy that will enable you to read any non-fiction material easily. You'll be able to start using and practicing the techniques right away as you read. The book also offers a selection of techniques so you can choose the ones that suit you best.
