Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies: Level 7
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Coursebooks | 8 October 2008
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Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies is designed to reinforce and extend the reading skills of your students. The fun, high-interest fiction and non-fiction selections will spark the interest of even your most reluctant reader. The book offers your students a variety of reading opportunities—reading for pleasure, reading to gather information, and reading to perform a task. A character on each page prompts the student to apply one of the strategies to the reading selection and includes a relevant comprehension skill activity.
Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies: Level 5
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Coursebooks | 8 October 2008
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Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies is designed to reinforce and extend the reading skills of your students. The fun, high-interest fiction and non-fiction selections will spark the interest of even your most reluctant reader. The book offers your students a variety of reading opportunities—reading for pleasure, reading to gather information, and reading to perform a task. A character on each page prompts the student to apply one of the strategies to the reading selection and includes a relevant comprehension skill activity.
Shi-xu critiques universalism in discourse studies in terms of the cultural consequences of its current white, western standpoint and advocates a culturally pluralist approach, a theory and research methodology from an innovative position between Eastern and Western cultures. Practical research strategies are illustrated by examples drawn from culturally wide ranging discourses.
Classroom Strategies for Helping At-Risk Students is essential reading for busy teachers who want to use high-quality research to guide their practice. It synthesizes the results of 118 studies of students at risk of failure and identifies six general strategies proven to be positive interventions. The book describes each strategy, analyzes the research, and offers implications for deciding how to use the strategies. A discussion guide helps readers directly connect the research to their own classrooms.
How can teachers incorporate drama into the curriculum? What activities are especially successful? How do teachers know when students are learning with and about drama? Teachers who are new to drama, or those wishing to refresh their knowledge and ideas will find practical answers and guidance in this important book. There has been renewed interest in the US, UK, and Australia on the subject of planning, implementing and evaluating drama work. With the range of activities, strategies and techniques provided, this text will prove invaluable to secondary school teachers.