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Overview"Reading Power 2 follows on from the successful student-centered reading skills textbook Reading Power. Its unique structure, featuring four parts to be used concurrently, allows low-intermediate-level students (with a 600-word vocabulary) to develop the multiple skills and strategies involved in the reading process. Overview Extensive Reading helps students to build reading fluency, broaden knowledge of vocabulary and collocation, and gain confidence. VocabularyBuilding offers strategies for independent vocabulary learning such as dictionary work, guessing meaning from context, and learning how words work in sentences. Comprehension Skills teaches reading skills such as recognizing words and phrases, scanning for information, and making inferences. Reading Faster builds awareness of reading speed, provides strategies and exercises for increasing speed, and offers charts for tracking progress. New to the Fourth Edition An updated Extensive Reading section with a unit on fiction and non-fiction reading, more activities for evaluating student progress, and a revised suggested reading list Enhanced vocabulary features including new ""Focus on Vocabulary"" exercises and an expanded Vocabulary Building section" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Linda Jeffries , Beatrice MikuleckyPublisher: Pearson Education (US) Imprint: Pearson Education (US) Edition: 4th edition Dimensions: Width: 10.00cm , Height: 10.00cm , Length: 10.00cm Weight: 0.100kg ISBN: 9780138143886ISBN 10: 0138143889 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 16 October 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPart 1 Extensive Reading Introduction Unit 1: New Vocabulary in Your Reading Unit 2: Fiction and Nonfiction Unit 3: Books Part 2 Vocabulary Building Unit 1: Guidelines for Learning Vocabulary Unit 2: Learning New Words from Your Reading Unit 3: Guessing Meaning from Context Unit 4: Word Parts Unit 5: How Words Are Used Together Unit 6: How Words Work in Sentences Part 3 Comprehension Skills Introduction Unit 1: Previewing Unit 2: Scanning Unit 3: Making Inferences Unit 4: Focusing on the Topic Unit 5: Understanding Paragraphs Unit 6: Identifying the Pattern Unit 7: Thinking in English Part 4 Reading Faster Introduction Unit 1: The White Woman of the Genesee Unit 2: Two Popular Authors Unit 3: Popular Health and PsychologyReviewsAuthor InformationLinda Jeffries holds a master's degree in TESOL from Boston University. She has taught reading, writing ans ESL/EFL at Boston College, Boston University, the Harvard University Summer ESL Program, the University of Opole, Poland, and the University of Bologna, Italy. She lives in Italy, near Bologna, and teaches academic reading and writing at the University of Modena. Bea Mikulecky holds a master's degree in TESOL and a doctorate in Applied Psycholinguistics from Boston University. In addition to teaching reading, writing, and ESL, she has worked as a teacher trainer in the Harvard University Summer ESL Program, in the Simmons College MATESL Program, and in Moscow, Russia. She is the author of A Short Course in Teaching Reading Skills. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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