Author: Beatrice S. Mikulecky Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company ISBN: 9780201158656 Category : Comprehension Languages : en Pages : 0
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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.
Author: Beatrice S. Mikulecky Publisher: Longman Publishing Group ISBN: 9780130186492 Category : English language Languages : en Pages : 89
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"'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.
Author: Linda Jeffries Publisher: ISBN: 9780132089050 Category : Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
More Reading Power 3 is enhanced by research-based methods and activities for learning vocabulary. Longer reading passages and new study-reading activities, including outlining and text marking, prepare students to enter the world of academic reading. More Reading Power's unique process methodology teaches students to view reading as a process. The series encourages students to develope a strategiec approach to reading and to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercies. More Reading Power delivers on that effective process approach with strategies and practice for strengthening comprehension skills, building vocabulary, increasing reading speed, and preparing for testing.
Author: Linda Jeffries Publisher: ISBN: 9780138143909 Category : English language Languages : en Pages : 120
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Its innovative design allows intermediate-level students to use four key sections concurrently to become better readers in school, college, or business.
Author: Linda Jeffries Publisher: Allyn & Bacon ISBN: 9780133047172 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 317
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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.
Author: Beatrice S. Mikulecky Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company ISBN: 9780201609707 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 308
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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.
Author: Kathleen F. Flynn Publisher: OXFORD University Press ISBN: 9780194305433 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
Panorama: Building Perspective Through Reading is a reading series of high-interest texts that correlate to academic disciplines, including the arts, science, technology, and history. Each unit contains three thematically-linked reading texts-the first on a person, the second on a related place, and the third on a related concept or event.
Author: Shane Parrish Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593719972 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
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