Download or read book Practice Makes Perfect Advanced ESL Reading and Comprehension EBOOK written by Diane Engelhardt and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenging exercises and critical vocabulary you need to advance your English skills Created by ESL instructor Diane Engelhardt, Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Reading and Comprehension features lengthy, complex passages to help you develop essential English reading and critical thinking skills. Inside are 15 readings on topics such as DNA evidence, sustainable urban communities, the human genome project, and more--subjects that will keep you engaged as you take your English to the next level. You will get plenty of practice, practice, practice on understanding and comprehending high-level vocabulary through enlightening exercises. You’ll master how to organize information you read, summarize text, and more. Before you know it, your reading skills will be stronger and your comprehension will grow, enabling you to get more out of English-language texts. Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Reading and Comprehension will help you: Build your academic and technical vocabulary Boost your comprehension skills to an advanced level Create reading strategies to use with any difficult text Develop critical thinking skills

Download or read book Practice Makes Perfect Intermediate ESL Reading and Comprehension EBOOK written by Diane Engelhardt and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take your skills to the next level and get more meaning out of the English language Reading English texts that are created especially for ESL students like you is a critical part to learning the language, but that does not mean you have to be bored with the subjects! Created by expert ESL instructor Diane Engelhardt, Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Reading and Comprehension features 15 engaging readings on interesting topics such as the technology of 21stcentury deep-sea treasure hunting, Pixar Studios' computer-generated movie magic, the Flying Doctors of Australia, and more. You will, of course, get plenty of practice, practice, practice on understanding and comprehending vocabulary. You'll master how to read for main ideas, summarize texts, make outlines, remember facts and figures, and more. Before you know it, your reading skills will be stronger and your comprehension will grow, enabling you to get more out of English-language texts. Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Reading and Comprehension will help you: Develop your reading comprehension skills at the intermediate level Build your English vocabulary Prepare for the comprehension sections of ESL tests

Download or read book Intermediate English Comprehension written by Stephen Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intermediate English Comprehension - Book 1 ****Now with access to 45 minutes of AUDIO**** Do you want to understand written AND spoken English like a native speaker? Then this bestselling series is for you!Each book contains 15 interesting articles on topics such as: history, religion, the natural world, science, travel, food and more. English teacher and author Stephen Harrison will help you improve your reading AND listening comprehension. Whether you are studying English for pleasure, work, travel or an exam, you will understand English easier and faster. Each book includes:● Access to 15 AUDIO files with different native accents. ● 15 fascinating short articles.● Glossaries which include key words with explanations.● Comprehension questions about each text.If you want to improve your reading AND listening comprehension, buy this book today!

Download or read book Vocabulary for Advanced Reading Comprehension written by John T. Crow and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Advanced Reading Power 4 written by Linda Jeffries and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2014 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new Advanced Reading Power 4 offers a strategic, student-based approach to the teaching of reading that encourages users to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise.

Download or read book Understanding Ideas written by Michael Swan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teacher's book contains helpful notes on the texts in Understanding Ideas, giving information about the authors, contexts or cultural background where this seems desirable. It also provides answers to all the questions set on the texts and suggestions for follow-up work such as writing, discussion and role-playing. Those texts in Understanding Ideas which lend themselves to oral exploitation have been recorded on cassette. The teacher's book suggests ways to use the recording, for example, for global or detailed listening comprehension, pronunciation work or as an aid to oral presentation of a text intended for intensive language study.

Download or read book How to Improve Reading Comprehension Quickly written by Ricki Linksman and published by National Reading Diagnostics Institute. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Improve Reading Comprehension Quickly by Knowing Your Personal Reading Comprehension Style: Quick, Easy Tips to Improve Comprehension through the Brain's Fastest Superlinks Learning Style Ricki Linksman Improve your reading comprehension to remember everything you read and learn quickly. Discover your unique way of remembering what you read. Don't wait for months or years to learn these secrets to improving memory quickly-they are available now within this book for anyone to use to learn anything for any purpose. Discover the secrets to unlock your brain's powerful memory and comprehension to quickly learn and master any subject or comprehend anything you read. This book will dramatically change your life and how you learn! Use these quick, easy and fun tips to improve reading comprehension and test-taking skills to learn anything quickly for your school, job, or career. Tap into your brain's energy powers to succeed in the competitive job market. Learn fast, easy, and powerful reading comprehension strategies to remember and comprehend everything you read and learn for rapid success. Ricki Linksman, one of the world's leading experts and author of books on accelerated learning, memory, and reading comprehension, shows you how to use your brain's unique superlinks learning style and brain style to improve comprehension quickly and successfully. These powerful techniques developed by Ricki Linksman, founder-director of National Reading Diagnostics Institute and Keys Learning, have proven for over 35 years to help people of all ages become top students and workers in the shortest possible time. These brain-based memory techniques can help adult learners for school or career. Seniors and baby-boomers use these exercises to maintain their brain and memory for lifelong learning. Parents can help their child or teen improve reading comprehension, concentration, focus, and self-esteem to raise grades, reading levels, and test scores for class or state tests or high school or college placement tests (ACT or SAT) in the shortest possible time. They can help parents and teachers improve comprehension in all students, whether Beginning or Reluctant Readers in nursery, pre-K, Kindergarten, grades 1, 2, or 3; Intermediate elementary school readers in grades 4 and 5; Middle school readers in grades 6, 7, and 8, Advanced or high school readers in grades 9, 10, 11, 12, or college, whether Regular Ed, Gifted, Special Ed, Title 1, ESL, bi-lingual, or those with ADHD or ADD. Spanish-speaking or other language learners can improve comprehension of English, while English-speaking students can increase comprehension of text in any language quickly. Teachers, college instructors, coaches, or trainers can accelerate content-area reading comprehension. Football, baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, or golf coaches can help athletes rapidly comprehend their sports playbook and keep up grades. Adult learners from college to graduate school have raise grades and improved reading comprehension, vocabulary, note taking, study and test-taking skills. Adults in the job market can rapidly learn new skills to find or keep a job, pass certification tests, start a new career when downsized, or keep pace with rapidly-changing technology in the workplace. Doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and therapists can reduce clients' stress from fear of school or tests by building confidence to comprehend anything. It is filled with strategies for visual, auditory, tactile, or kinesthetic left-brain or right-brain learners. These simple, easy methods to improve reading comprehension can help you or those you teach or train to achieve success in any field-quickly. Note to readers: This book is part of a series so for the full compendium order How to Learn Anything Quickly: Quick, Easy Tips to Improve Memory, Reading Comprehension, and Test-taking Skills through the Brain's Fastest Superlinks Learning S

Download or read book The Advanced English Handbook Reading Writing and Listening written by Margaret Shabka and published by Al Manhal. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advanced English Handbook: Reading, Writing, Listening, is the companion volume to The AEH: Structure and Form. It provides critical reading, writing and listening strategies and practice for using English in an academic/professional environment. With its companion volume, Reading, Writing, Listening is designed for bilingual/ advanced second language users or learners of English whose goal is to communicate with ease in English in these environments. Descriptor(s): COMMUNICATION SKILLS | READING | WRITING | LISTENING | SYNTAX | SOCIAL INTERACTION | COMPREHENSION | INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Download or read book Developing Reading Comprehension written by Paula J. Clarke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Reading Comprehension “In recent years the debate about teaching young children to read has tended to focus upon equipping them with the crucially important knowledge and skills they need to read words accurately in and out of context, that is to say, teaching them how the alphabet works for reading and spelling. While such knowledge and skills are essential, more is required for children to become literate, fluent readers who understand what they read. In short, the goal of reading is comprehension. This book scrupulously examines the obstacles to reading comprehension and exemplifies what can be done to help children overcome them. It is an important and timely contribution to securing high-quality teaching of the range of attributes children need to become fully-fledged readers.” Sir Jim Rose, CBE “The studies by Professors Charles Hulme and Maggie Snowling and their team over two decades based around the Reading Intervention Programme are the most sustained, comprehensive and rigorous research series on reading yet conducted in the UK. Their increasing focus on children who experience the most difficulty in reading is exactly where attention should be directed. This volume summarises the team’s achievements to date, and is most eagerly awaited.” Greg Brooks, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Sheffield, Member of European High Level Group of Experts on Literacy “Developing Reading Comprehension presents a landmark study from the top research team in the UK on how to improve reading comprehension. It’s an exemplary masters-level textbook written with undergraduate-level lucidity and approachability.” Colin Harrison, Emeritus Professor of Literacy Studies in Education, University of Nottingham A significant minority of children aged 7–11, despite being able to read fluently and accurately, have difficulty extracting meaning from text. This detailed guide offers three evidence-based intervention programmes, drawn from the cutting edge of educational psychology, for improving the reading skills of children in this group. It includes a definitive introduction to the characteristics of the ‘poor comprehender profile’, and explains how to monitor and assess students’ experiences and learning outcomes. With invaluable strategies for teachers, psychologists and special educational needs coordinators, the book will help professionals to support learners in their efforts to explore the full richness of language and to read with real understanding.

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Download or read book More Reading Power written by Beatrice S. Mikulecky and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'More reading power' Seecond edition, is a student-centered reading skills textbook based on a cognitive skills approach. Its four key sections, designed to be used concurrently, help intermediate to high-intermediate students develop solid reading skills necessary in school, college, or business."--Cover.

Download or read book High School Reading Comprehension written by Jonathan D. Kantrowitz and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary reading comprehension workbook provides extensive practice for the essential skills of critical thinking and literary analysis at the high school level. Students will read a variety of passages and respond to multiple-choice and open-ended questions in the areas of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Students will learn to master selecting and applying the appropriate reading strategies to best understand and examine reading passages. Skills covered include analyzing conflict, plot, and setting; interpreting the main idea; making inferences; drawing conclusions; evaluating the author's craft and style; identifying mood and tone; and analyzing figurative language. Also great for home schooling!

Download or read book Polyglot How I Learn Languages written by Kat— Lomb and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KAT LOMB (1909-2003) was one of the great polyglots of the 20th century. A translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world, Lomb worked in 16 languages for state and business concerns in her native Hungary. She achieved further fame by writing books on languages, interpreting, and polyglots. Polyglot: How I Learn Languages, first published in 1970, is a collection of anecdotes and reflections on language learning. Because Dr. Lomb learned her languages as an adult, after getting a PhD in chemistry, the methods she used will be of particular interest to adult learners who want to master a foreign language.

Download or read book SAT Reading Comprehension Workbook written by Khalid Khashoggi and published by Ilex Publications. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Comprehension is one of the toughest aspects of the SAT*, even for the most advanced students. Time pressure, distractions, obscure passages and challenging vocabulary are overwhelming factors that make the reading comprehension section notoriously daunting. It doesn't have to be this way. We at Integrated Educational Services (IES) have developed a user-friendly, time-saving technique that allows you to break down and master the Reading Comprehension section. And why should you trust this technique? Because IES has spent 14 years teaching some of the most advanced and highly motivated students from around the globe. For 14 years, we have helped these students reach their goal scores. We know that practice makes perfect. In this book, find 40 carefully crafted long reading comprehension passages and the accompanying questions, finely tuned to the specifications and difficulty levels of the real SAT*. We have also included a FREE online SAT* vocabulary course. Read it and reap: Learn from it, use it, and gain the confidence of knowing you have an edge over everyone else. Good luck with the SAT*! Note: the practice sections of this book are formatted based on the SAT prior to the Spring 2016 Redesign. For the current SAT format, please search our newer IES titles under "Advanced Practice Series."

Download or read book GMAT Reading Comprehension written by Manhattan Prep and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth guide takes the mystery out of complex reading passages by providing a toolkit of sketching techniques that aim to build comprehension, speed, and accuracy. Learn to identify the underlying structure of reading passages and develop methods to tackle the toughest comprehension questions.

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