Ready to Read Now: A Skills-Based Reader (Student Book) - Softcover

Blanchard, Karen; Root, Christine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131776479 ISBN 13: 9780131776470

Publisher: Pearson Longman, 2005

Synopsis

Features

• Sharpen Your Reading Skills provides explicit instruction as well as extensive practice and recycling.
• Be an Active Reader features high-interest readings that allow students to apply their skills.
• As You Read activities, including completion of charts, graphs, and outlines, encourage reading with a purpose.
• Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills includes word-attack skills ranging from Using a Dictionary to Using Context Clues.
• Express Your Ideas and Explore the Web extend and enrich the reading experience.
• Read Faster helps build reading fluency and accuracy.
• Practice with word parts, synonyms and antonyms, idioms, compound words, and word maps.

About this title

About the Author

Karen Blanchard and Christine Root each have taught English language instruction at the university level for more than twenty years. Karen has an M.S.Ed in TESOL from the University of Pennsylvania, and Christine has an M.Ed in English Education from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. They began their textbook collaboration with the Ready to Write series while they were lecturers at the University of Pennsylvania. They have since written many reading and writing skills books and continue to enjoy working together to create English language textbooks for students around the world.

From the Back Cover

Ready to Read Now: A Skills-Based Reader, by Karen Blanchard and Christine Root, is a part of a three-level series designed to develop reading and vocabulary building skills. In Ready to Read Now, intermediate students progress step by step through task-based activities that promote reading competency and fluency.

 

Features

• Sharpen Your Reading Skills provides explicit instruction as well as extensive practice and recycling.
• Be an Active Reader features high-interest readings that allow students to apply their skills.
• As You Read activities, including completion of charts, graphs, and outlines, encourage reading with a purpose.
• Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills includes word-attack skills ranging from Using a Dictionary to Using Context Clues.
• Express Your Ideas and Explore the Web extend and enrich the reading experience.
• Read Faster helps build reading fluency and accuracy.

 The Ready to Read series also includes Get Ready to Read and Ready to Read More.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Longman
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131776479
• ISBN 13: 9780131776470
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192