Basic Reading Power Author:Beatrice S. Mikulecky, Linda Jeffries At each level, students focus on the following skill areas *Reading for Pleasure encourages students to master new reading strategies and broaden their vocabulary. *Comprehension Skills emphasizes strategic reading skills, such as skimming, scanning, and recognizing topics and main ideas. *Thinking Skills provides targeted practice in inference ... more »and analytical skills. *Reading Faster features high-interest, nonfiction selections that help students build speed and flexibility in their reading. *Extensive reading helps students to build reading fluency, increase comprehension, and broaden vocabulary. *Vocabulary building trains students in a variety of strategies for learning new words, from personalized vocabulary lists to noticing collocations.« less