The entertaining reading series for beginning-level ESL students that uses short, believe-it-or-not, real-life stories to stimulate vocabulary acquisition and build reading comprehension. Read On is a new reading series designed for beginning and high-beginning level ESL students. Each book in the series features 20 short, stimulating reading passages on high-interest topics such as a hotel that’s 21 feet below the ocean, a woman who lived in a tree, how twin brothers fell in love with twin sisters, and blind people who use seeing-eye horses. Each reading contains vital, high-frequency vocabulary that is recycled throughout the chapters in each book. This gives students a chance to see new vocabulary a number of times and in a variety of contexts. Teachers and students will also enjoy the self-standing format of the series. They can either select chapters according to need and interest or systematically work through each book. FEATURES: 
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Chapter-opening photographs introduce students to the themes of the readings.</li> <li>
Before You Read activities ask students to make inferences, activate their prior knowledge, and answer questions based on their experience.</li> <li>
Audio recordings of each reading selection provide students with listening practice to increase their comprehension skills.</li> <li>
Key vocabulary items appear in bold-faced type for easy reference.</li> Main idea questions presented in standardized testing formats help students check their reading comprehension as well as prepare them for success in taking standardized tests. <li>
Learn New Words and Complete the Paragraph activities test students’ understanding of new vocabulary words.</li> <li>
Think It Over activities encourage students to use critical thinking skills to examine ideas introduced in the reading selections.</li> <li>
Write It Down activities prompt students to write sentences and paragraphs about their thoughts, opinions, and ideas.</li> <li>
 Talk It Over activities ask students to discuss ideas related to the chapter topics </li> <li>An Activity Menu section at the end of each pair of chapters, gives students the opportunity to practice and recycle new vocabulary and do expansion work through: <ul>
Tie It Together activities-- students use graphic organizers to synthesize information from the previous two chapters. Just for Fun activities – students practice spelling and word order. Go Online activities--students Internet search skills. </ul>
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 This audio CD is designed to accompany the beginning level student book.

Read On 1 Audio CD

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Mare, Nancy

English as a Second Language

The entertaining reading series for beginning-level ESL students that uses short, believe-it-or-not, real-life stories to stimulate vocabulary acquisition and build reading comprehension.    Read On is a new reading series designed for beginning and high-beginning level ESL students.  Each book in the series features 20 short, stimulating reading passages on high-interest topics such as a hotel that’s 21 feet below the ocean, a woman who lived in a tree, how twin brothers fell in love with twin sisters, and blind people who use seeing-eye horses.    Each reading contains vital, high-frequency vocabulary that is recycled throughout the chapters in each book.  This gives students a chance to see new vocabulary a number of times and in a variety of contexts.  Teachers and students will also enjoy the self-standing format of the series.  They can either select chapters according to need and interest or systematically work through each book.    FEATURES:        Chapter-opening photographs introduce students to the themes of the readings.    Before You Read activities ask students to make inferences, activate their prior knowledge, and answer questions based on their experience.    Audio recordings of each reading selection provide students with listening practice to increase their comprehension skills.    Key vocabulary items appear in bold-faced type for easy reference.    Main idea questions presented in standardized testing formats help students check their reading comprehension as well as prepare them for success in taking standardized tests.    Learn New Words and Complete the Paragraph activities test students’ understanding of new vocabulary words.    Think It Over activities encourage students to use critical thinking skills to examine ideas introduced in the reading selections.    Write It Down activities prompt students to write sentences and paragraphs about their thoughts, opinions, and ideas.     Talk It Over activities ask students to discuss ideas related to the chapter topics     An Activity Menu section at the end of each pair of chapters, gives students the opportunity to practice and recycle new vocabulary and do expansion work through:        Tie It Together activities-- students use graphic organizers to synthesize information from the previous two chapters.    Just for Fun activities – students practice spelling and word order.    Go Online activities--students Internet search skills.                    This audio cassette is designed to accompany the high beginning level student book.

Read On 2 Audiocassette

The entertaining reading series for beginning-level ESL students that uses short, believe-it-or-not, real-life stories to stimulate vocabulary acquisition and build reading comprehension. Read On is a new reading series designed for beginning and high-beginning level ESL students. Each book in the series features 20 short, stimulating reading passages on high-interest topics such as a hotel that’s 21 feet below the ocean, a woman who lived in a tree, how twin brothers fell in love with twin sisters, and blind people who use seeing-eye horses. Each reading contains vital, high-frequency vocabulary that is recycled throughout the chapters in each book. This gives students a chance to see new vocabulary a number of times and in a variety of contexts. Teachers and students will also enjoy the self-standing format of the series. They can either select chapters according to need and interest or systematically work through each book. FEATURES:  Chapter-opening photographs introduce students to the themes of the readings. Before You Read activities ask students to make inferences, activate their prior knowledge, and answer questions based on their experience. Audio recordings of each reading selection provide students with listening practice to increase their comprehension skills. Key vocabulary items appear in bold-faced type for easy reference. Main idea questions presented in standardized testing formats help students check their reading comprehension as well as prepare them for success in taking standardized tests. Learn New Words and Complete the Paragraph activities test students’ understanding of new vocabulary words. Think It Over activities encourage students to use critical thinking skills to examine ideas introduced in the reading selections. Write It Down activities prompt students to write sentences and paragraphs about their thoughts, opinions, and ideas.  Talk It Over activities ask students to discuss ideas related to the chapter topics  An Activity Menu section at the end of each pair of chapters, gives students the opportunity to practice and recycle new vocabulary and do expansion work through:  Tie It Together activities-- students use graphic organizers to synthesize information from the previous two chapters. Just for Fun activities – students practice spelling and word order. Go Online activities--students Internet search skills.     This audio CD is designed to accompany the high beginning level student book.

Read On 2 Audio CD

Reading topics such as laptops in the classroom and the International Space Station help learners develop reading strategies, critical thinking skills, and vocabulary-building schema to enhance reading comprehension.

Insights for Today: A High Beginning Reading Skills Text, Second Edition

Smith, Lorraine C.

Heinle ELT

Reading for Today is five-level reading skills program that systematically develops students' reading and vocabulary skills.

Reading for Today 1: Themes (Reading for Today, New Edition)

Smith, Lorraine

National Geographic/(ELT)

Reading for Today 2: Insights (Reading for Today, New Edition)

Reading for Today 3: Issues (Reading for Today, New Edition)

Reading for Today 4: Concepts (Reading for Today, New Edition)

Reading for Today 5: Topics (Reading for Today, New Edition)

About the Author\nLorraine C. Smith has taught ESL for over 30 years. She has also taught TESOL Methods and Research courses at the graduate level. She has presented for 20 years at local, national, and international TESOL conferences. She holds Masters degrees in Linguistics and in TESOL, and earned her doctorate in Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College Columbia University. In addition to coauthoring the Reading for Today series, she has written other ESL textbooks, journal articles and book chapters. She is currently the Associate Director of the English Language Institute at Queens College of the City University of New York.\nNancy Nici Mare received an MA in Applied Linguistics from CUNY Queens College, where she is an instructor at the English Language Institute. In addition to teaching all ESL skills, including reading, writing, speaking and listening, to students ranging from beginners to advanced, she has also served as a master teacher to many students in the practicum class in the MA Applied Linguistics program at QC. Recently, she developed an online advanced ESL writing course, which she subsequently taught to students in Vietnam. She is one of the two authors of the Reading for Today series that includes Themes, Insights, Issues, Concepts and Topics.

Reading for Today 1: Audio CD

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