Mikulecky, Beatrice S. <br/><br/>
A short course in teaching reading :  practical techniques for building reading power / 
Beatrice S. Mikulecky. 
 - second edition. 
 - White Plains, New York :  Pearson Longman,  (c)2011. 
 - iv, 264 pages :  illustrations ;  28 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>PART I:  READING AND LITERACY:  SOME CONNECTIONS --  What is reading? --  What is literacy? --  How are language, culture, and literacy connected? --  What do educational researchers recommend? --  What do ESL/EFL students need? -- PART II:  EXTENSIVE READING --  What is extensive reading? --  Why is extensive reading important? --  What should students read for extensive reading? --  When should students read extensively? --  How to implement an extensive reading component? --  Why is extensive reading so successful? -- PART III:  TEACHING READING SKILLS --  Rationale and methodology -- What are reading skills? -- Focusing on specific skills --  Teaching interactive, skill-focused lessons -- Applying the skills in intensive reading lessons -- Notes about the sample exercises -- Scheduling activities in your reading class --  Activating background knowledge and conceptual frameworks -- Previewing -- Predicting -- Skimming --  Developing reading fluency:  Learning not to read every word -- Cloze exercises -- Scanning -- Reading faster --  Improving bottom-up processing -- Perceptual skills:  recognizing English letters and words -- AAutomaatic decoding -- Linguistic features and bottom-up processing -- Lexical items that signal textual cohesion -- Lexical items that signal textual organization --  Vocabulary building -- Sources of words for vocabulary teaching and learning -- Direct instruction of selected vocabulary -- Strategies for vocabulary building --  Text structure and comprehension:  Topics and main ideas -- Understanding sentences -- Topics and main ideas --  Text structure and comprehension:  Patterns of organization -- Frequently used patterns in English -- Four of the easiest patterns to learn -- Practice in identifying the four patterns -- Two more difficult patterns to learn --  Strategic reading and study skills -- Reading longer passages -- Summarizing -- Study reading -- Critical reading. 
<br/><br/> This revision of the classical practical handbook A Short Course in Teaching Reading Skillscombines reading theory with practical classroom application. An invaluable resource to the reading teacher, teacher-in-training, or administrator who wants to stress quality reading comprehension instruction, the principles apply to teenage through adult learners who already have basic decoding skills.  https://www.amazon.com/Short-Course-Teaching-Reading-Techniques/dp/0131363859/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2T9B6BZO88EN1&keywords=9780131363854&qid=1681413923&sprefix=9%2Caps%2C118&sr=8-1 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780131363854 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010043248 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.<br/>English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.<br/>Reading comprehension.<br/>Books and reading.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE1128  / .S567 2011