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Basic Reading Power 1 is a new and updated edition of the successful student-centered reading skills textbook Basic Reading Power. Its unique structure, featuring four parts to be used concurrently, allows beginning-level students (with a 300-word vocabulary) to develop the multiple sills 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. Vocabulary Building 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. Thinking Skills provides practice in recognizing sentence structure and following the logic of ideas. New to the Third Edition An updated Extensive Reading section with new fables and stories, 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 There is also a Teacher Guide with Answer Key and a Test Booklet for Basic Reading Power 1. The Reading Power series also includes: Reading Power 2 (4th Edition): Intermediate More Reading Power 3: High-Intermediate Advanced Reading Power 4: Advanced

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The new edition of Reading Power 3 is enhanced by research-based methods and activities for learning vocabulary. Longer reading passages and new study-reading activities, including outlining and text marking, prepare students to enter the world of academic reading. Reading Power's unique process methodology teaches students to view reading as a process. The series encourages students to develope a strategiec approach to reading and to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercies.Reading Power delivers on that effective process approach with strategies and practice for strengthening comprehension skills, building vocabulary, increasing reading speed, and preparing for testing. With expanded emphasis on vocabulary acquisition and learning strategies, and updated Extensive Reading sections, these new editions help beginning and intermediate-level students develop the multiple skills and strategies necessary for success. At each level, students focus on four skill areas: Extensive Reading (Reading for Pleasure) lets students select their own reading materials to practice new strategies, build fluency, increase comprehension, and broaden their vocabulary. Vocabulary Building trains students in a variety of strategies for learning new words, from personalized vocabulary lists to noticing collocations. Reading Comprehension covers skimming, scanning, recognizing topics and main ideas, understanding sentences, and making inferences. Critical Thinking Skills (upper levels) involves targeted practice in inferential and analytical skills. Reading Faster helps students develop speed and flexibility in reading with high-interest, short fiction and non-fiction selections. Also available - a separate Teacher’s Guide with Answer Key and Sample Syllabus for each level.

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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.

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