Advanced Reading Power 4 - Softcover

Jeffries, Linda; Mikulecky, Beatrice S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131990276 ISBN 13: 9780131990272

Publisher: Pearson Education, 2007

Synopsis

There is an expanded emphasis on vocabulary acquisition and learning strategies, and updated Extensive Reading sections.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Advanced Reading Power, by Beatrice S. Mikulecky and Linda Jeffries, is a student-centered reading skills textbook based on a cognitive skills approach. Its four key sections, designed to be used concurrently, help advanced students master reading skills needed for academic success:

• Extensive Reading helps students to 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 reading skills, such as making inferences, recognizing patterns of organization, and reading critically.
• Reading Faster features high-interest, nonfiction selections that help students improve their reading rate and flexibility.

Features:

• A variety of authentic reading selections, including excerpts from college textbooks, promotes purposeful reading.
• Focus on Vocabulary sections provide practice with academic vocabulary from the unit.
• Comprehension exercises encourage students to interact with the text and develop an awareness of their own reading and thinking processes.

The Reading Power series also includes:

• Basic Reading Power 1 (Third Edition): Beginning
• Reading Power 2 (4th Edition): Intermediate
• More Reading Power 3: High-Intermediate

 

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131990276
• ISBN 13: 9780131990272
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318