Download or read book More Reading Power written by Beatrice S. Mikulecky and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a cognitive skills approach, these student-centered reading skills texts help students go beyond rote learning to develop the solid reading skills good readers take for granted. You'll find the following skill development areas: -- Reading for Pleasure -- encourages students to master new reading strategies and broaden their vocabularies by helping them select books appropriate to their level and enjoy them on their own. -- Reading Comprehension Skills -- emphasizes strategic reading skills such as skimming, scanning, recognizing topics and main ideas, understanding sentences, and making inferences. -- Thinking Skills -- provides targeted practice in inference and analytical skills. -- Reading Faster -- uses high-interest short fiction and nonfiction passages to help students develop speed and flexibility in their reading. The four sections are intended to be used concurrently. Challenging excerpts from short stories, plays, encyclopedias, and articles help studentsexpand their developmental reading skills. Additional exercises focus on improving reading rate and reading for pleasure.
Download or read book Reading Power written by Beatrice S. Mikulecky and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A developmental reader based on a cognitive skills approach, which demystifies the process of teaching reading and thinking in English. The text teaches specific comprehension skills, including previewing, predicting, scanning and skimming.
Download or read book More Reading Power 3 written by Linda Jeffries and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2012 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous ed. published: N.Y.: Pearson Longman, 2003; More reading power / Beatrice S. Mikulecky, 2nd ed.
Download or read book Reading Power written by Adrienne Gear and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Power 2 written by Linda Jeffries and published by . This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its innovative design allows intermediate-level students to use four key sections concurrently to become better readers in school, college, or business.
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 Nonfiction Reading Power written by Adrienne Gear and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help students think while they read in all subject areas, with the key skills of connecting, questioning, visualizing, inferring, and synthesizing.
Download or read book Power Reading written by Rick Ostrov and published by Education Press (NC). This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power Reading is the best, fastest, easiest, most effective speedreading and comprehension course ever developed! Most people see amazing results in the first few days of the 30-day Power Reading course. Included in this unique speedreading course are the most effective techniques for comprehension improvement, study, note taking, test taking and retention in school, work or pleasure materials.
Download or read book The Great Mental Models Volume 1 written by Shane Parrish and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.
Download or read book The Power of Reading written by Stephen D. Krashen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the case for free voluntary reading set out in the book's 1993 first edition, this new, updated, and much-looked-for second edition explores new research done on the topic in the last ten years as well as looking anew at some of the original research reviewed. Krashen also explores research surrounding the role of school and public libraries and the research indicating the necessity of a print-rich environment that provides light reading (comics, teen romances, magazines) as well as the best in literature to assist in educating children to read with understanding and in second language acquisition. He looks at the research surrounding reading incentive/rewards programs and specifically at the research on AR (Accelerated Reader) and other electronic reading products.
Download or read book Reading Power written by James Isaac Brown and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mid-level text, the Sixth Edition of Reading Power balances timed readings with extensive instructional guidance and pedagogical support. Students calculate their reading rate by timing themselves, and test their comprehension by answering Getting the Facts, Getting the Meaning, and other questions. Leaning on Context and Making the Words Yours activities help students understand difficult vocabulary, and Leaning on Parts focuses on important prefix, root, and suffix rules. In the Ultimate Review section, Evaluating Internet Information activities ask students to complete six web-based assignments.
Download or read book Basic Reading Power written by Beatrice S. Mikulecky and published by LONGMAN. This book was released on 2004 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing Power written by Adrienne Gear and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help young writers learn to engage and invite their reader's thinking with five key thinking strategies - connect, question, visualize, infer, and transform.
Download or read book The Power of Reading written by Maurice Rogers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unexpected discovery of self-help books changed my life. This short book will explain how they can do the same for YOU. The Power of Reading will cover: - How self-help books can be used as a practical tool to transform any area of your life. - The top 3 benefits of reading self-help books - The key to creating life changing tangible results from what you read - How over-consuming self-help books can hold you back from achieving your goals - The reading habits of 15 millionaires and billionaires - Guidelines for starting a personal reading plan - Why you should approach all self-help products with a balance of openness and cynicism I've read over 2000 self-help books in the last ten years (I discuss in the book why I wouldn't necessarily do this again). I wrote this book to share how they have benefited my life and to inspire others to join me on the journey of lifelong strategic personal growth.
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 Bigger Books Mean Amping Up Reading Power written by Lucy Calkins and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Power of Joyful Reading written by Eric Litwin and published by Scholastic Professional. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
