Advanced Reading Power 4 2/e

Advanced Reading Power 4 2/e

Authors：Linda Jeffries, Beatrice S. Mikulecky
Publisher：Pearson Education

• Extensive Reading helps students to build reading fluency, increase comprehension, and broaden vocabulary.
• Vocabulary Building includes numerous strategies for learning vocabulary, including using context clues, analyzing word parts, and noticing collocations.
• Comprehension Skills teaches scanning, making predictions and inferences, recognizing patterns of organization, identifying genre, skimming, and critical reading.
• Reading Fluency features high-interest, nonfiction selections that help students improve their reading rate and flexibility.

New to the Second Edition

• More self-directed vocabulary-building tasks embedded in exercises
• Updated vocabulary learning strategies based on current research
• New content organized around current issues relating to the Western lifestyle (social, economic, public health, environment). with an emphasis on academic text types
• Enhanced focus on critical thinking and academic skills
• Targeted vocabulary items selected from frequency word list based on the Pearson International Corpus of Academic English
• New Test Booklet designed to assess students' progress in acquiring and mastering the skills and strategies covered in the Student Book and also to test acquisition of targeted vocabulary