Language: English

Format: .pdf

Pages: 179

Size: 47 MB

The following principles have guided the development of Select Readings,
Second Edition:
• Exposing students to a variety of text types and genres helps them develop
more effective reading skills. Students learn to handle the richness and depth of writing styles they will encounter as they read more widely in English.
• Readers become engaged with a selection when they are asked to respond personally to its theme. While comprehension questions help students see if
they have understood the information in a reading, discussion questions ask students to consider the issues raised by the passage.
• Readers sharpen their reading, vocabulary-building, and language skills when skills work is tied directly to the content and language of each
reading passage. This book introduces students to reading skills such as 
skimming and scanning and vocabulary-building strategies such as learning synonyms and understanding phrasal verbs. Each skill was chosen in 
consultation with teachers to ensure that the most applicable and appropriate skills were selected for students at the Intermediate level.
• Good readers make good writers. Reading helps students develop writing skills, while writing experience helps students become better readers.
• Background knowledge plays an important role in reading comprehension. An important goal of Select Readings, Second Edition is to illustrate how
thinking in advance about the topic of a reading prepares readers to better comprehend and interact with a text.

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