Advanced Reading Power: Extensive Reading, Vocabulary Building, Comprehension Skills, Reading Faster - Softcover

Beatrice S. Mikulecky; Linda Jeffries

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131990276 ISBN 13: 9780131990272

Publisher: Longman, 2007

Synopsis

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
  

 

 

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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: Longman
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131990276
• ISBN 13: 9780131990272
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 311