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 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 Power of Reading written by Frank Furedi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a natural companion to Christopher Booker`s bestselling The Seven Basic Plots (Continuum) and John Gross`s seminal study The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (Weidenfeld and Nicolson). The most eminent cultural and social historian Frank Furedi presents an eclectic and entirely original history of reading. The very act of reading and the choice of reading material endow individuals with an identity that possesses great symbolic significance. Already in ancient Rome, Cicero was busy drawing up a hierarchy of different types of readers. Since that time people have been divided into a variety of categories- literates and illiterates, intensive and extensive readers, or vulgo and discreet readers. In the 19th Century, accomplished readers were praised as `men of letters` while their moral opposites were described as `unlettered`. Today distinctions are made between cultural and instrumental readers and scorn is communicated towards the infamous `tabloid reader`. The purpose of this book is to explore the changing meanings attributed to the act of reading. Although it has an historical perspective, the book`s focus is very much on the culture of reading that prevails in the 21st Century. There are numerous texts on the history of literacy (Hoggart), yet there is no publication devoted to the the history of readers and their relationship with wider culture and society. It is thus a fascinating insight into understanding the post-Gutenberg debates about literacy in a multimedia environment with such a strong emphasis on the absorption of information. Taking a cue from George Steiner, Furedi argues vigorously for the restoration of the art of reading- every bit as important as the art of writing.
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 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 Life is Tremendous written by Charles Edward Jones and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Power Revised Expanded Edition written by Adrienne Gear and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago, Reading Power was launched in an elementary school in Vancouver. It has since evolved into a recognized approach to comprehension instruction being implemented across Canada, in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, and China. This ground-breaking approach showed teachers how to help students think while they read — connect, question, visualize, infer, and transform. Since the publication of the first edition of Reading Power, Adrienne Gear has continued to reflect on and refine her ideas about metacognition, comprehension instruction, and the Reading Power strategies. This revised and expanded edition shares these new understandings, and offers teachers new ideas, new lessons, and, of course, new anchor books to support the Reading Power principles. An ideal resource for teachers familiar to this strategic approach to teaching reading, or for those looking for new ways to connect thinking with reading.
Download or read book In the Blood written by Lisa Unger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author and International Thriller Writers “Best Novel” finalist Lisa Unger returns to the dark psychological suspense that made Beautiful Lies a bestseller around the world. Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can’t quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met his match. Or has Lana met hers? When Lana’s closest friend, Beck, mysteriously disappears, Lana resumes her lying ways—to friends, to the police, to herself. The police have a lot of questions for Lana when the story about her whereabouts the night Beck disappeared doesn’t jibe with eyewitness accounts. Lana will do anything to hide the truth, but it might not be enough to keep her ominous secrets buried: someone else knows about Lana’s lies. And he’s dying to tell. Lisa Unger’s writing has been hailed as “sensational” (Publishers Weekly) and “sophisticated” (New York Daily News), with “gripping narrative and evocative, muscular prose” (Associated Press). Masterfully suspenseful, finely crafted, and written with a no-holds-barred raw power, In the Blood is Unger at her best.
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 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 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 The 48 Laws of Power written by Robert Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.
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 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 The Enchanted Hour written by Meghan Cox Gurdon and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction. A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming the simple stuff of a book, a voice, and a bit of time into complex and powerful fuel for the heart, brain, and imagination. Grounded in the latest neuroscience and behavioral research, and drawing widely from literature, The Enchanted Hour explains the dazzling cognitive and social-emotional benefits that await children, whatever their class, nationality or family background. But it’s not just about bedtime stories for little kids: Reading aloud consoles, uplifts and invigorates at every age, deepening the intellectual lives and emotional well-being of teenagers and adults, too. Meghan Cox Gurdon argues that this ancient practice is a fast-working antidote to the fractured attention spans, atomized families and unfulfilling ephemera of the tech era, helping to replenish what our devices are leaching away. For everyone, reading aloud engages the mind in complex narratives; for children, it’s an irreplaceable gift that builds vocabulary, fosters imagination, and kindles a lifelong appreciation of language, stories and pictures. Bringing together the latest scientific research, practical tips, and reading recommendations, The Enchanted Hour will both charm and galvanize, inspiring readers to share this invaluable, life-altering tradition with the people they love most.
Download or read book The People You Meet and the Books You Read written by Charlie T. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
