This book answers theoretical and practical questions on the teaching of reading. It offers numerous suggestions on how to teach expository prose, non prose reading, fiction, poetry, and songs.

Techniques and Resources in Teaching Reading (Teaching Techniques in English As a Second Language)

Reference

Silberstein, Sandra

English as a Second Language

Oxford University Press

War of Words

In a media age, wars are waged not only with bombs and planes but also with video and sound bites. War of Words is an incisive report from the linguistic battlefields, probing the tales told about September 11th to show how Americans created consensus in the face of terror. Capturing the campaigns for America's hearts, minds, wallets and votes, Silberstein traces the key cultural conflicts that surfaced after the attacks and beyond: <ul>
<li>the attacks on critical intellectuals for their perceived 'blame America first' attitude</li> <li>the symbiotic relationship between terrorists and the media</li> <li>(mis)representations of Al Qaeda and the Taliban used to justify military action</li> <li>the commercialisation of September 11th</li> <li>news as 'entertainment' when covering tragic events.</li>
</ul>
Now featuring a new chapter on the Second Anniversary and Beyond, including: the war in Iraq, the backlash against former 'heroes' and accusations of presidential mendacity. A perceptive and disturbing account, War of Words reveals the role of the media in manufacturing events and illuminates the shifting sands of American collective identity in the post September 11th world.

War of Words: Language, Politics and 9/11

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

History

Americas

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

Clarke, Mark A.

Dobson, Barbara K.

Education & Reference

University of Michigan Press/ELT

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)

<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.

Baudoin, E. Margaret

Bober, Ellen S.

This volume presents another invaluable method for teaching English as a second language.  It is based on the premise that reading is an interactive process in which readers use information from the text and their own background knowledge in order for communication to take place.  The exercises provide practice in using both text-based knowledge and the background information of the reader.  Skills units introduce and provide practice in text-based information processing.  Opportunities for discussion before and after reading selections, and the focus on critical reading, require that students bring their background knowledge to bear during the entire reading process.  These activities are designed to create independent readers who actively make decisions about how and what they will read, choosing strategies appropriate to their goals for a particular reading task,  Book 1 is self-contained providing flexibility for classroom use while focusing on the skills efficient students of English need to develop and practice, including: problem solving, dictionary use, contextual vocabulary, word analysis, skimming, scanning, critical reading, reading comprehension, composition.  Contents of Book 1 are:,

Reader's Choice, Int'l Book 1: International Edition, Book 1

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

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