Advanced Skills In Reading Book 1 PDF Download

Authentic, high-interest passages are paired with reading, writing, comprehension, and discussion activities that integrate new skills and ideas into students' knowledge and experience. -- A thematic organization in each book allows for natural recycling and spiralling of concepts, vocabulary, and syntactic structures, and develops a comprehensive range of reading skills that promote critical thinking and writing skills. -- Pre-reading activities activate background knowledge and set the stage for successful integration of new ideas and concepts. -- Three interesting reading selections per unit, drawn from a variety of genres, promote the acquisition of a diverse and broad-based set of reading skills. High-interest topics include Fashion and Style, Disaster Strikes, Across Many Cultures, Technology, How to Improve Your Memory, and an extra expansion section on Developing Research and Writing Skills.