Advanced Reading Power 4: Extensive Reading, Vocabulary Buildi

Description: A variety of authentic reading selections, including excertps from college textbooks, promotes purposeful reading.
Focus on Vocabulary sections provide practice with academci vocabulary from the unit.
Comprehension exercises encourage students to interact with the text and develop an awareness of their own reading and thinking processes.

Table of Contents


Part 1: Extensive Reading

Unit 1: Choosing a Book for Extensive Reading

Unit 2: Reading and Discussing Nonfiction

Unit 3: Reading an Discussing Fiction

Unit 4: Responding to and Reporting on Your Extensive Reading Books



Part 2: Vocabulary Building

Unit 1: Strategies for Building a Powerful Vocabulary

Unit 2: Learning New Words from Your Reading

Unit 3: Inferring Meaning from Context

Unit 4: Word Parts

Unit 5: Collocations



Part 3: Comprehension Skills

Unit 1: Previewing

Unit 2: Making Inferences

Unit 3: Understanding Paragraphs

Unit 4: Patterns of Organization

Unit 5: Reading Longer Passages Effectively

Unit 6: Skimming

Unit 7: Study Reading

Unit 8: Summarizing

Unit 9: Critical Reading



Part 4: Reading Faster

Unit 1: Learning to Read Faster

Unit 2: New Technology and Its Impact Around the World

Unit 3: People Who Have Made a Difference

Unit 4: Inventions That Are Changing Our Lives



Appendix 1: List of 2,000 Most Frequent Words

Appendix 2: Academic Word List

Appendix 3: Record of Books Read