Advanced Reading Power » (1st Edition)

Advanced Reading Power, by Beatrice S. Mikulecky and Linda Jeffries, is a student-centered reading skills textbook based on a cognitive skills approach. Its four key sections, designed to be used concurrently, help advanced students master reading skills needed for academic success:

• Extensive Reading helps students to build reading fluency, increase comprehension, and broaden vocabulary.
• Vocabulary Building includes numerous strategies for learning vocabulary, including using context clues, analyzing word parts, and noticing collocations.
• Comprehension Skills teaches reading skills, such as making inferences, recognizing patterns of organization, and reading critically.
• Reading Faster features high-interest, nonfiction selections that help students improve their reading rate and flexibility.

Features:

• A variety of authentic reading selections, including excerpts from college textbooks, promotes purposeful reading.
• Focus on Vocabulary sections provide practice with academic vocabulary from the unit.
• Comprehension exercises encourage students to interact with the text and develop an awareness of their own reading and thinking processes.

The Reading Power series also includes:

• Basic Reading Power 1 (Third Edition): Beginning

• Reading Power 2 (4th Edition): Intermediate

• More Reading Power 3: High-Intermediate

Part 1: Extensive Reading

Unit 1: Choosing a Book for Extensive Reading

Unit 2: Reading and Discussing Nonfiction

Unit 3: Reading an Discussing Fiction

Unit 4: Responding to and Reporting on Your Extensive Reading Books

Part 2: Vocabulary Building

Unit 1: Strategies for Building a Powerful Vocabulary

Unit 2: Learning New Words from Your Reading

Unit 3: Inferring Meaning from Context

Unit 4: Word Parts

Unit 5: Collocations

Part 3: Comprehension Skills

Unit 1: Previewing

Unit 2: Making Inferences

Unit 3: Understanding Paragraphs

Unit 4: Patterns of Organization

Unit 5: Reading Longer Passages Effectively

Unit 6: Skimming

Unit 7: Study Reading

Unit 8: Summarizing

Unit 9: Critical Reading

Part 4: Reading Faster

Unit 1: Learning to Read Faster

Unit 2: New Technology and Its Impact Around the World

Unit 3: People Who Have Made a Difference

Unit 4: Inventions That Are Changing Our Lives

Appendix 1: List of 2,000 Most Frequent Words

Appendix 2: Academic Word List

Appendix 3: Record of Books Read