Advanced reading power 4
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Advanced reading power 4
(Always learning)
Pearson Longman, c2014
2nd ed
- Student book : pbk
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Advanced reading power four
Reading power 4
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"Advanced reading power 4 is a new and updated edition of the successful student-centered reading skill textbook Advanced reading power. Its unique structure, featuring four parts to be used concurrently, allows advanced level students to develop the multiple skills and strategies needed for academic success."--Back cover
Contents of Works
- pt. 1. Extensive reading
- pt. 2. Vocabulary building
- pt. 3. Comprehension skills
- pt. 4. Reading fluency
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The new Advanced Reading Power 4 offers a strategic, student-based approach to the teaching of reading that encourages users to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise. This edition retains the original four-part structure unique to the Reading Power series, focusing on Extensive Reading, Vocabulary Building,Comprehension Skills and Reading Fluency.
New to the Second Edition:
More self-directed vocabulary-building tasks embedded in exercises.
Updated vocabulary-learning strategies based on current research.
New content organized around current issues relating to the Western lifestyle (social, economic, public health, environmental), with an emphasis on academic text types.
Enhanced focus on critical thinking and academic skills.
Targeted vocabulary items selected from frequency word list based on the Pearson International Corpus of Academic English (including both general and academic English).
Appendix with word list for student and teacher reference.
Reading Power's unique methodology teaches students to view reading as a process. The series encourages students to develop a strategic approach to reading and to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise.
Extensive Reading helps students build reading fluency, increase comprehension, and broaden vocabulary.
Vocabulary Building includes numerous strategies for learning vocabulary, including using context clues, analyzing word parts, and noticing collocations.
Comprehension Skills teaches scanning, making predictions and inferences, recognizing patterns of organization, identifying genre, skimming, and critical reading.
Reading Fluency features high-interest, nonfiction selections that help students improve their reading rate and flexibility.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Extensive Reading
Introduction
Unit 1: New Vocabulary in Extensive Reading
Unit 2: Fiction and Nonfiction
Unit 3: Books for Extensive Reading
Part 2 Vocabulary Building
Introduction
Unit 1: Learning New Vocabulary from Your Reading
Unit 2: Inferring Meaning from Context
Unit 3: Word Parts
Unit 4: Phrases
Part 3 Comprehension Skills
Introduction
Unit 1: Scanning and Previewing
Unit 2: Making Inferences and Predictions
Unit 3: Paragraphs: Structure and Reference
Unit 4: Identifying the Pattern
Unit 5: Genres of Writing
Unit 6: Reading for Study
Unit 7: Skimming
Unit 8: Critical Reading
Part 4 Reading Fluency
Introduction
Unit 1: An Introduction to Reading Fluency
Unit 2: People Who Have Made a Difference
Unit 3: The Impact of Modern Technology
Unit 4: Issues and Ideas
Appendix
by "Nielsen BookData"