Get Ready to Read: A Skills-based Reader - Softcover

Blanchard, Karen; Root, Christine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131776487 ISBN 13: 9780131776487

Verlag: Pearson Education (US), 2005

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Features:

• Reading skills include identifying main ideas, previewing and predicting, recognizing sequence, and making inferences.

• Extensive practice in recycling and application of newly learned skills with high-interest reading selections.

• Practice with word parts, synonyms and antonyms, idioms, compound words, dictionary use, and word maps.

Skills are supported by graphics, examples, and short texts that illustrate concepts and provide additional opportunities for practice and discussion. Ready to Read is the perfect series to prepare students for success in academic reading and test taking.

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Karen Blanchard and Christine Root each have taught English language instruction at the university level for more than twenty years. Karen has an M.S.Ed in TESOL from the University of Pennsylvania, and Christine has an M.Ed in English Education from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. They began their textbook collaboration with the Ready to Write series while they were lecturers at the University of Pennsylvania. They have since written many reading and writing skills books and continue to enjoy working together to create English language textbooks for students around the world.

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Get Ready to Read: A Skills-Based Reader, by Karen Blanchard and Christine Root, is a part of a three-level series designed to develop reading and vocabulary building skills. In Get Ready to Read, beginning students progress step by step through task-based activities that promote reading competency and fluency.

 

Features

• Sharpen Your Reading Skills provides explicit instruction as well as extensive practice and recycling.
• Be an Active Reader features high-interest readings that allow students to apply their skills.
• As You Read activities, including completion of charts, graphs, and outlines, encourage reading with a purpose.
• Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills includes word-attack skills ranging from Using a Dictionary to Using Context Clues.
• Express Your Ideas and Explore the Web extend and enrich the reading experience.
• Read Faster helps build reading fluency and accuracy.

The Ready to Read series also includes Ready to Ready Now and Ready to Read More.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pearson Education (US)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0131776487
• ISBN 13: 9780131776487
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar