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Reading for a Reason Student Book 2: Expanding Reading Skills (Bk. 2)
Reading for a Reason Student Book 2 Expanding Reading Skills - Bk. 2
Author: Laurie Blass, Elizabeth Whalley
This three-level academic, theme-based reading series focuses on cross-cultural content and promotes critical thinking skills. Features
  • Reading selections span fiction, non-fiction, news and magazine articles, interviews, maps, charts, web pages, quotations, and photo captions.
  • Reading passages reflec...  more »
  • Skills are continually recycled to build student reading fluency, confidence, and mastery.
  • Units open with engaging photographs and questions to introduce the theme, provide academic focus, set chapter goals, and activate prior knowledge.
  • Before You Read activities stimulate background knowledge, focus on vocabulary presentation and practice, and introduce important expressions.
  • As You Read sections focus students on the main idea, offer timed readings to build fluency, and provide pair work activities to promote topic discussion and information processing.
  • A specific section in each unit focuses on Internet reseach.
  • Structured speaking activities help students further explore each unit theme.
  • Each unit concludes with three writing activities.
This is the intermediate level student book.
ISBN-13: 9780072942149
ISBN-10: 0072942142
Publication Date: 5/12/2005
Pages: 252
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT
Book Type: Paperback
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