This book appears at a time when the crisis rhetoric about schools, teaching, and learning to read is extremely high. There is a rising call within the profession for a balanced perspective on reading. Balancing Principles for Teaching Elementary Reading aspires to help set the agenda for improving the quality of literacy instruction in the United States--by recentering the debate from "What's better, 'whole language' or 'phonics'?" to "What can we do in reading instruction to prepare all children for the literacy demands of the next century?"...
Supplementary material including reading comprehension, vocabulary, communication, pronunciation and extra reading for pleasure. The book can be used to supplement any course from Beginner to Intermediate level. Units based on different topics and divided into five sections. Contemporary topics, motivating texts and communicative tasks. Systematic development of learners’ reading skills with a variety of tasks developing both reading for gist and reading for specific information.
Reading Challenge 2nd Edition is a three-book, non-fiction, reading series designed for intermediate to advanced English language learners. The series presents a wide range of topics through controlled language aimed to engage the inte...
Adam and Lily are on holiday in Africa. They want to see the animals - the Big Five. But one person in their group is not very happy, or very friendly. Who is she? What is she doing in Kenya? What is her problem?
Penguin Active Reading Level 1: African Safari Book and CD-ROM Pack
EASY STEPS TO READING is a complete, 36-step linguistic primer and tutorial guide that has been scientifically developed to teach both children and adults to read in eight to nine months. EASY STEPS TO READING starts by teaching the alphabet and proceeds through consonant-vowel-consonant type phonetic words to multi-syllable irregularly spelled words. Each STEP contains words for decoding practice, plus stories for the development of reading comprehension. In one convenient book, EASY STEPS TO READING is the ideal method for home schooling, classroom teaching or individual tutoring, and makes learning to read a pleasant and rewarding experience.
