Reader's Choice

Reference

Baudoin, E. Margaret

Bober, Ellen S.

Clarke, Mark A.

English as a Second Language

University of Michigan Press

Reader's Choice is among the world's best loved and most successful ESL/EFL textbooks for the teaching of academic skills. Based on the theory that proficient reading requires the coordination of a number of skills, this classic text recognizes that the most important of these is the reader's ability to select the proper skills or strategies to solve each reading challenge. The exercises and readings in Reader's Choice help students to become independent, efficient readers. 
 Each carefully selected reading is accompanied by a wide variety of exercises. Skills-focused units alternate with units centering on full reading passages. Reader's Choice, Fifth Edition, preserves this proven format and popular readings while bringing new material and updates to every unit from the previous edition.
New in this edition of Reader's Choice:
§ Visual Literacy. Today's students are confronted with a dizzying array and combination of print and graphics. This edition features more activities that develop strategies for gleaning information from combinations of text and graphics.
§ Web Work. The ability of today's students to evaluate information sources is nowhere more crucial than on the Internet. Extensive Web Work appears in three skills units and additional web-based activities occur throughout the book. 
* New Readings. Nine new reading selections respond to the changing environment faced by our students, taking up issues of globalization in a multicultural, multigenerational world. 
§ Additional Vocabulary and Additional Skills. New readings bring additional vocabulary with new lexical items topically related across a series of linked readings. Additional skills work includes reading longer passages and creating prose summaries for Paragraph Main Idea work and transferring data from prose to tables and from graphs to prose. Some vocabulary activities have been moved to the companion website.
 Users of Reader's Choice will be pleased to find that many of the features they have used with success have been retained: intensive language-based reading practice; realistic literacy tasks based on the use of authentic reading passages; a focus on reading skills but opportunities for speaking, listening, and writing in the context of the issues raised in the readings; activities that support task-based learning; and texts and tasks that stretch and challenge students in meaningful ways. 
 A companion website featuring interactive vocabulary activities/quizzes is available at www.press.umich.edu/esl/readerschoice/.

Reader's Choice, 5th edition

Business & Money

Dobson, Barbara K.

Silberstein, Sandra

Education & Reference

University of Michigan Press/ELT

This book contains thought-provoking essays on teaching and learning: · Who is in charge of lesson plans and of organizing classroom activities? · Who places students in classes? · Who selects the books and the tests? · How are students evaluated, and who determines this? · What weight does teacher opinion have in decisions about student progress in school? Teachers should have the final say in all of these cases, and their opinion should weigh heavily in all of them, yet this is not the reality for today’s teachers. Current educational practices driven by a confluence of social and political issues, including testing policies, seem to be influencing teaching and learning more than teachers themselves. The essays in this book consider many serious issues facing today’s teachers and urge teachers to seek common ground with others in the field of education. The book also urges teachers to become reflective practitioners, seeing themselves as theorists, philosophers, action researchers, and political activists. Common Ground, Contested Territory is an inspiring book for all teachers.

Common Ground, Contested Territory: Examining the Roles of English Language Teachers in Troubled Times (Surviving Innovation)

Reader's Choice, Split Edition, has been designed for use in shorter, more intensive programs. This edition contains Units 1–6 of the 5th edition of Reader's Choice. Also included is the new longer reading unit featuring fiction by Jhumpa Lahiri. Reader's Choice is among the world's best loved and most successful ESL/EFL textbooks for the teaching of academic skills. Based on the theory that proficient reading requires the coordination of a number of skills, this classic text recognizes that the most important of these is the reader's ability to select the proper skills or strategies to solve each reading challenge. The exercises and readings in Reader's Choice help students to become independent, efficient readers. Each carefully selected reading is accompanied by a wide variety of exercises. Skills-focused units alternate with units centering on full reading passages. Reader's Choice, Split Edition, preserves this proven format and popular readings while bringing new material and updates to every unit from the previous edition. New in this edition of Reader's Choice: § Visual Literacy. Today's students are confronted with a dizzying array and combination of print and graphics. This edition features more activities that develop strategies for gleaning information from combinations of text and graphics. § Web Work. The ability of today's students to evaluate information sources is nowhere more crucial than on the Internet. Extensive Web Work appears in two skills units and additional web-based activities occur throughout the book. * New Readings. Five new reading selections respond to the changing environment faced by our students, taking up issues of globalization in a multicultural, multigenerational world. § Additional Vocabulary and Additional Skills. New readings bring additional vocabulary with new lexical items topically related across a series of linked readings. Additional skills work includes reading longer passages and creating prose summaries for Paragraph Main Idea work and transferring data from prose to tables and from graphs to prose. Some vocabulary activities have been moved to the companion website. Users of Reader's Choice will be pleased to find that many of the features they have used with success have been retained: intensive language-based reading practice; realistic literacy tasks based on the use of authentic reading passages; a focus on reading skills but opportunities for speaking, listening, and writing in the context of the issues raised in the readings; activities that support task-based learning; and texts and tasks that stretch and challenge students in meaningful ways.

Reader's Choice, Split Edition (5th Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

<div> In this new edition, Reader's Choice continues its legacy of teaching skills for academic success.&nbsp;The&nbsp;new edition of the classic textbook teaches readers that the most important skill is selecting the best reading strategies for solving everyday reading challenges. The exercises and readings in Reader's Choice help students become independent, efficient readers. Reader's Choice provides 9 units that teach progressively more complex reading strategies. These units are accompanied by skills-focused activities as well as full reading passages. Units include readings and materials from respected news sites, commonly used items like transit maps, excerpts from well-known literary works such as Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," and much more. Together, these readings provide engaging, real world examples that allow students to strengthen the reading skills vital to academic and career success. &nbsp; In Reader's Choice, 6th Edition, students will: <div>- Learn key critical reading skills for prose, charts, graphs, and data, such as analyzing context clues, using prefixes and suffixes, and more</div> <div>- Develop contextual reading skills through real life scenarios and practice exercises &nbsp;</div> <div>- Engage with high-interest examples from popular news sources, contemporary literature, and scientific studies &nbsp;</div> <div>- Complete interactive online quizzes and exercises to supplement and measure student learning &nbsp;</div> Reader's Choice, 6th Edition is accompanied by a companion website featuring student resources and by a set of teaching materials supporting classroom use. &#8203; CEFR Levels: B1, B2, C1, C2 </div>

Reader's Choice, 6th Edition

Great buy for great reading and writing effort in students.

Reader's Choice, 2nd Ed.

Reader's Choice, 3d ed.: Third Edition

Using the popular format of Reader's Choice, Choice Readings introduces intermediate students to the skills and strategies of independent and efficient reading. Choice Readings provides a wide range of authentic reading experiences. Essays and editorials sharpen critical reading skills. Students read and discuss the roles of family members in different cultures, the dynamics of power in international political relations, and many other thought-provoking topics. The needs of today's international language learners are reflected in the science and business features as well as in magazine and newspaper articles on topics of widespread interest, such as the rights of smokers. Maps, charts, and graphs complement many of the prose selections. Fiction, both adult and children's literature, provides opportunities for students to stretch their imaginations. Cartoons provide insight into human nature and cultural differences.

Choice Readings

The two volumes of Choice Readings, International Edition, contain all the high-quality reading skills and strategies in the highly acclaimed first ed-ition of Choice Readings. These separate and self-contained reading texts provide flexibility for classroom use while focusing on the skills intermediate-level ESL/EFL students of English need to develop and practice their reading skills: stems and affixes sentence study paragraph reading restatement and inference dictionary use contextual cues compositionThe International Editions of Choice Readings provide a wide range of authentic reading experiences:Book 1MapsNewspaper articlesMagazine articlesTechnical proseProse: fiction and mysteriesBook 2Applications and questionnairesCharts and graphsFablesAdvice columnsChildren's literaturePoetryBoth books contain valuable appendixes and answer keys.For intermediate ESL/EFL students.

Choice Readings, Intl Ed, Book 1

The two volumes of Choice Readings, International Edition, contain all the high-quality reading skills and strategies in the highly acclaimed first ed-ition of Choice Readings. These separate and self-contained reading texts provide flexibility for classroom use while focusing on the skills intermediate-level ESL/EFL students of English need to develop and practice their reading skills: stems and affixes sentence study paragraph reading restatement and inference dictionary use contextual cues composition The International Editions of Choice Readings provide a wide range of authentic reading experiences: Book 1 Maps Newspaper articles Magazine articles Technical prose Prose: fiction and mysteries Book 2 Applications and questionnaires Charts and graphs Fables Advice columns Children's literature Poetry Both books contain valuable appendixes and answer keys. For intermediate ESL/EFL students.

Choice Readings, Int'l Ed., Book 2

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