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IELTS - The Complete Guide to Academic Reading takes you step by
step, from a basic understanding of the IELTS exam to a point where
you have the necessary skills and confidence to take the exam. You
will be introduced to twelve question types commonly used in the
IELTS exam: Short answers Sentence completion Summary completion
Multiple choice Table completion Labelling flowcharts / processes
Matching Paragraph selection True, False, Not Given Yes, No, Not
Given Headings Diagrams
Building Academic Literacy: Lessons from Reading Apprenticeship Classrooms, Grades 6-12, features pieces by five middle and high school teachers working with the Reading Apprenticeship instructional framework introduced in Reading for Understanding, (Schoenbach, et al, Jossey-Bass, 1999). Filled with instructional tips, lesson plans, and curriculum resources, this book offers guidance on conducting Academic Literacy courses as well as readings from a companion student book— Building Academic Literacy: An Anthology for Reading Apprenticeship. It can serve as an excellent resource for any content area teacher, grades 6-12, looking for classroom-based ideas to motivate adolescents in becoming more active, engaged and strategic readers.
Using a unique, tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you
how to quickly and efficiently recognise letters and common words
in Persian (Modern Persian/Farsi) script. Whether you're travelling
and want to understand the words around you, or preparing to learn
Modern Persian and want to master the basics, this is the book for
you. In this book you will find: * An introduction to Persian
(Modern Persian/Farsi) script * Plenty of practice activities to
help you recognise each letter of the alphabet * Helpful mnemonics
to make you remember the shape of each letter * Accompanying audio
files so you know how to pronounce letters and words * Handy tips
to help you decipher common and familiar words The audio for this
course can be downloaded from the Teach Yourself Library app or
streamed at library.teachyourself.com. Rely on Teach Yourself,
trusted by language learners for over 80 years.
Originally published in 1961, Let's Read is a simple and systematic
way to teach basic reading. Developed by noted linguist Leonard
Bloomfield, the book is based on the alphabetic spelling patterns
of English. Bloomfield offered an antidote to the idea that English
is a difficult language to learn to read by teaching the learner to
decode the phonemic sound-letter correlations of the language in a
sequential, logical progression of lessons based on its spelling
patterns. The learner is first introduced to the most consistent
(alphabetic) vocabulary and then to increasingly less alphabetic
and less frequent spelling patterns within a vocabulary of about
5,000 words. The second edition of Let's Read brings Bloomfield's
innovative program into the twenty-first century without changing
the sequence of exercises but with revised text and an attractive
new design and layout. Authors Cynthia A. Barnhart and Robert K.
Barnhart, who have long been involved with Let's Read, have refined
the original edition with new vocabulary and content based on
feedback from longtime users. The new edition lightens the first
learning load by presenting lengthy patterns in two lessons rather
than one, adding more connected reading and new vocabulary, and
introducing some sight words earlier in the sequence. The authors
have also added a list of multisyllable words at the end of part 1
that fall within the patterns of the first lessons, and they have
added some longer stories later in the program. The notes
introducing each part of Let's Read have also been revised to be
more informative, and new illustrations have been added. Let's Read
not only teaches users to read English based on spelling patterns
but simultaneously reduces the emphasis on pronunciation to teach
letter sounds, making it useful for bilingual and nonnative English
speakers as well. Parents, reading teachers, tutors, as well as ESL
teachers and adult literacy instructors will be interested in the
second edition of Let's Read.
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An Essential History of Current Reading Practices describes the key
research and trends that have informed, shaped, and given direction
to reading education over the last half-century. This volume -
penned by some of the best-known experts in the field - can
familiarize any educator, from novice to expert, with the complex
nature of teaching reading. It also can provide readers a starting
point for examining particular topics in depth. The contributors
review landmark research from the middle of the 20th century
through today, highlighting political and social pressures that
have influenced research, policy, and classroom practice. Eleven
chapters explore the historical underpinnings of the reading
process, phonics, family literacy, guided reading, comprehension,
fluency, content area reading, children's literature, remedial and
clinical reading, vocabulary and spelling, and teacher education
and professional development. To provide readers with a jump-off
point for further study, each chapter presents questions for future
research as well as Essential Readings resource lists. The author
invites you into a deep understanding of each topic. You will gain
perspective, ground your own work, and come to appreciate the rich,
varied interpretations of these areas of reading.
Appalled at the reading disabilities in her third-grade classroom
in New Jersey, Geraldine E. Rodgers requested a sabbatical leave to
observe first-grade reading instruction and to test resultant
second-grade oral reading in the United States and Europe. In
1977-78, using a portion of a silent reading test from IEA
(International Association for the Evaluation of Educational
Achievement), which she had translated commercially into Dutch,
Swedish, German, and French, she tested the oral reading of over
900 second-graders in their own languages in the United States,
Holland, Luxembourg, Sweden, Germany, Austria, and France. She
rated first-grade teaching emphasis on a scale from 1 (for
sight-word "meaning") to 10 (for phonic "sound"). Mixed programs
were rated from 2 to 9. She then immediately tested the
oral-reading accuracy, speed, reversals, and comprehension of
second-grade children in the same schools, in their own languages.
Did you know reading text on a computer screen can be as much as 30
percent slower with less comprehension than reading printed text?
Reading electronic text, e-mails and Web pages on a computer screen
is different. That's why this book is important no matter what
industry you are in. ""Effective Screen Reading"" provides
tried-and-tested principles for increasing your on-screen
productivity and effectiveness.The easy-to-handle and
quick-reference guide is the first book to address fast and
effective reading and learning via the computer screen. ""Effective
Screen Reading"" offers concrete techniques for: speed reading
e-mails and other documents directly off your computer screen;
finding the information you want faster from a mass of electronic
data; selecting, scanning, understanding and remembering key
messages; and, reducing work-related stress by improving the
ergonomics of your work environment.Learn various techniques for
better using your vision skills. Find out why sitting correctly in
front of the screen is critical. Discover how to improve
concentration and understanding of what you read. Examine e-mail
folder structure and filing principles.
This workbook is designed to help students improve their basic
comprehension and general reading skills. This is a content-based
text, and all the examples, readings, and exercises are based on
the topic of earthquakes. Each unit features a pre-reading
activity, basic comprehension exercises, and vocabulary practice.
Units include practice making inferences, understanding the
organization of reading passages, and pronoun references.The
activities recycle the vocabulary and ideas of the reading text and
are therefore accessible and meaningful rather than dry, rote
exercises.The "Forces of Nature "workbooks combine high-interest
readings with skills development activities. Each of the five
workbooks features a different skills focus--reading, vocabulary,
grammar, study skills, and multi-skill review with writing
activities.Each content-based workbook also focuses on a different
force of nature--earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and floods,
blizzards, and wildfires. These events were selected because they
allow students to develop an understanding of natural events that
threaten property, ways of life, and lives. Because information
about preparing for a disaster is sometimes unavailable or not at a
level that is understandable to some of today's students, tips for
surviving each "force of nature "are presented at the end of each
workbook.The "Forces of Nature "workbooks are copublished with
Artesian Press.
Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. Yet that
truism is never remembered when our functional illiteracy disaster
is being discussed by "experts," and so the same errors are
repeated, decade after decade, and even century after century. The
Case for the Prosecution and the two papers following it were
originally published in 1981, 1982, and 1983. They reported on the
author's extensive library and oral-reading-accuracy research which
turned up the historical causes for functional illiteracy and the
proven solution for it, and also why that proven solution has so
often been mislabeled as poison. In the intervening decades since
these three papers came out, they have never been cited in any of
the enormously expensive U.S. Government reading research programs
or in any publications by so-called "experts" in the reading
instruction "establishment." However, since these papers contain
much historical detail which is not repeated in the author's more
recent works, they are being re-issued for those non-Governmental
and non-"establishment" readers who are interested in learning the
real facts.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Draws from authors including Franz Kafka, Saint Augustine, and
Margaret Atwood and ranging in subject from childhood reading to
erotic literature to examine how reading affects self and identity.
The 'Reading German' texts and CD-ROM materials were developed to
aid students in acquiring a reading knowledge of German. Through
the use of these materials students are expected to obtain a level
of proficiency sufficient for understanding scientific and
scholarly material written in German. The course is divided into
two levels. Reading German: Introduction is an introductory course
that covers reading strategies, reading grammar, resources, and
basic vocabulary. It leads to a second year reading knowledge of
German in 12 weeks. The Humanities, Business/Economics, Chemistry,
and Music books lead to a reading knowledge of German comparable to
fourth year language courses and teach highly specialised language
skills in the student's individual area of interest. The CD-ROM
incorporates guided and independent study sections that deal with
topics from Reading German: Introduction and fosters autonomous
learning. The programs are designed to make efficient use of the
students' subject matter knowledge, thus enabling them to deal with
challenging and highly relevant topics from the beginning without
the prerequisite 2-3 years of very basic language commonly taught
in introductory courses. As well, the programs accommodate five
different levels of text difficulty to suit the German language
skills of individual students. The course materials encourage
students to learn at their own pace and progress faster to higher
levels of proficiency than is otherwise achieved through
traditional reading courses.
The Lifeboat Read & Spell Scheme. A highly-structured,
multi-sensory scheme of lessons to help dyslexic children - and
adults - to read, write and spell. This book contains ten lessons
and each lesson is made up of eight photocopiable worksheets.
The Lifeboat Read & Spell Scheme. A highly-structured,
multi-sensory scheme of lessons to help dyslexic children - and
adults - to read, write and spell. This book contains ten lessons
and each lesson is made up of eight photocopiable worksheets.
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