This book is designed to help you improve your reading comprehension skills by studying 20 minutes a day for 20 days. You’ll start with the basics and move on to more complex reading comprehension and critical thinking strategies. Please note that although each chapter can be an effective skill builder on its own, it is important that you proceed through this book in order, from Lesson 1 through Lesson 20. Each lesson builds on skills and ideas discussed in the previous chapters.
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The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field, to create a highly authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and related skills.
* Provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, including theoretical approaches, reading processes, stage models of reading, cross-linguistic studies of reading, reading difficulties, the biology of reading, and reading instruction
* Divided into seven sections:Word Recognition Processes in Reading; Learning to Read and Spell; Reading Comprehension; Reading in Different Languages; Disorders of Reading and Spelling; Biological Bases of Reading; Teaching Reading
Quest Second Edition parallels and accelerates the process native-speaking students (ESOL - English for Speakers of Other Languages) go through when they prepare for success in a variety of academic subjects. Quest helps students get "up to speed" in terms of both academic content and language skills.
Quest 3 combines high-interest material from newspapers and magazines with readings from academic textbooks.The Reading and Writing strand includes three to four distinct units, each focusing on a different area of university study - anthropology, art, biology, business, ecology, economics, history, literature, psychology, and sociology. Each chapter contains five parts that blend reading and writing skills within the context of a particular academic area of study. 1. Introduction 2. General Interest Reading 3. Academic Reading 4. The Mechanics of Writing 5. Academic Writing. Reading and activites build upon one another and increase in length and difficulty as students work through the five sections of each chapter across the four levels.
Building Fluency contains everything teachers need to improve students’ reading fluency, one of five essential reading components identified in Reading First. Transparencies and assessment tools are included. The selections are engaging and humorous.
