Covers the basics of reading comprehension skills and strategies, activities and techniques that can help improve students’ ability to understand what they read. Understanding context is key to reading success. Concise, easy-to-understand explanations are reinforced by clear, straightforward examples. Each activity/technique shows what it is, how to use it and why it’s important. Vivid graphic elements help make the activities/techniques fun to do and learn.
We spend our lifetimes experiencing the world around us and converting information into knowledge that we put to use in our daily lives. Learning is not only the most important part of life, it can also be the best.
COVID-19 coronavirus is having a big effect on businesses and investors and last week, stock markets around the world fell because of the virus. We find out how that can happen by looking at the way global trade works. NASA’s InSight lander has been studying Mars in more detail than ever before. We find out more about the mysteries of Mars. We find out about the important role that dogs have always played in the military. We meet Brydi, a nine-year-old athlete who’s got her sights set on Paralympic glory.
In order to speak English well, you need a thorough knowledge of how to use three important verbs, "to have", 'to do", and "to be". These verbs are discussed in this book. This book also defines the meaning of the word, infinitive.
Jamie and Taymour overhear this strange conversation near their homes in Muscat. Two men want to kill an important visitor, it seems. But who is the woman in danger? And what can the boys do to save her?