In this new edition, Reader's Choice continues its legacy of teaching skills for academic success. The brand new edition of the classic textbook teaches readers that the most important skill is selecting the best reading strategies for solving everyday reading challenges. The exercises and readings in Reader's Choice help students become independent, efficient readers.Reader's Choice provides 9 units that teach progressively more complex reading strategies. These units are accompanied by skills-focused activities as well as full reading passages. Units include readings and materials from respected news sites such as NPR, commonly used items like transit maps, excerpts from well-known literary works such as Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," and much more. Together, these readings provide engaging, real world examples that allow students to strengthen the reading skills vital to academic and career success. In Reader's Choice, 6th Edition, students will: Learn key critical reading skills for prose, charts, graphs, and data, such as analyzing context clues, using prefixes and suffixes, and more Develop contextual reading skills through real life scenarios and practice exercises Engage with high-interest examples from popular news sources, contemporary literature, and scientific studies - Complete interactive online quizzes and exercises to supplement and measure student learning Reader's Choice, 6th Edition is accompanied by a companion website featuring student resources and by a set of teaching materials supporting classroom use. CEFR Levels: B1, B2, C1, C2

Using the popular format of "Reader's Choice," "Choice Readings" introduces intermediate students to the skills and strategies of independent and efficient reading. "Choice Readings" provides a wide range of authentic reading experiences. Essays and editorials sharpen critical reading skills. Students read and discuss the roles of family members in different cultures, the dynamics of power in international political relations, and many other thought-provoking topics. The needs of today's international language learners are reflected in the science and business features as well as in magazine and newspaper articles on topics of widespread interest, such as the rights of smokers. Maps, charts, and graphs complement many of the prose selections. Fiction, both adult and children's literature, provides opportunities for students to stretch their imaginations. Cartoons provide insight into human nature and cultural differences.

The two volumes of "Choice Readings, International Edition," contain all the high-quality reading skills and strategies in the highly acclaimed first ed-ition of "Choice Readings," These separate and self-contained reading texts provide flexibility for classroom use while focusing on the skills intermediate-level ESL/EFL students of English need to develop and practice their reading skills:
stems and affixes
sentence study
paragraph reading
restatement and inference
dictionary use
contextual cues
composition
The "International Editions of Choice Readings" provide a wide range of authentic reading experiences:
Book 1
Maps
Newspaper articles
Magazine articles
Technical prose
Prose: fiction and mysteries
Book 2
Applications and questionnaires
Charts and graphs
Fables
Advice columns
Children's literature
Poetry
Both books contain valuable appendixes and answer keys.
For intermediate ESL/EFL students.

This book contains thought-provoking essays on teaching and learning:
- Who is in charge of lesson plans and of organizing classroom activities?
- Who places students in classes?
- Who selects the books and the tests?
- How are students evaluated, and who determines this?
- What weight does teacher opinion have in decisions about student progress in school?
Teachers "should "have the final say in all of these cases, and their opinion "should "weigh heavily in all of them, yet this is not the reality for today's teachers. Current educational practices driven by a confluence of social and political issues, including testing policies, seem to be influencing teaching and learning more than teachers themselves. The essays in this book consider many serious issues facing today's teachers and urge teachers to seek common ground with others in the field of education. The book also urges teachers to become reflective practitioners, seeing themselves as theorists, philosophers, action researchers, and political activists.
"Common Ground, Contested Territory "is an inspiring book for all teachers.

"A Place to Stand "is for pragmatic idealists--people who can imagine a better world and are committed toward working toward it; individuals who are dissatisfied with the status quo and discouraged at the pace of change; people who are passionate about making the world a better place but realistic about what it takes to accomplish it.
This book of essays, wonderfully introduced by Mary Catherine Bateson, offers hope in the maelstrom of change that surrounds educators today. Collectively, the essays provide a coherent approach to identifying problems and formulating strategies for solving them, but not a sequential, logical approach to effecting change. The essays are intended as resources for individuals trying to change things, and he assumes that people working for change are willing to change themselves as part of the process.