Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R. Schwarz, In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century is a passionate and joyful defense of the pleasures of reading. This stimulating book provides valuable insights for teachers and students on why we read and how we read when we embark on "the odyssey of reading."
This is part of an intermediate/upper intermediate course for teenagers. Students gain expertise in all four language skills to prepare them for First Certificate, and the constant testing and practice opportunities are designed to provide a thorough grounding in grammar and skills. Features of the course include: a variety of reading tests designed to appeal to teenagers; storylines with teenage characters, which aim to encourage reading for pleasure and discussion; a balanced writing syllabus to build up process writing skills; pronunciation hotspots to tackle stress and intonation; and grammar boxes designed to revise, consolidate and extend students' knowledge.
Help new readers soar with this charming set of skill-building mini-books! Each of these simple, reproducible word/picture books teaches a group of key sight words, and includes write-on lines and a matching game to make learning to read interactive and fun. A super way to build literacy in school or at home. 48 pages.
Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and lesser known writers
Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis.
Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry, backed by academic research and marked by its accessibility to students with little prior experience of poetry
Introduces many of the major topics of the age, from politics to publishing, from slavery to sociability, from Milton to the mind of man
Encourages direct responses to poems by opening up different aspects of the literature and fresh approaches to reading
