Reading Matters is a four-volume series with an interactive approach to reading that offers stimulatings and tasks that focus on developing fluency and accuracy, and on skills such as note taking and speaking from reading. The readings and tasks in Reading Matters 4 will help students at a high-intermediate level develop their comprehension skills and build an awareness of importannt reading strategies.
Features
- Extensive Reading: Six thematic units, each featuring two chapters with readings on thought-provoking topics, offer a vocabulary-rich reading experience.
- Paired Readings: Six paired thematic readings provide students with an opportunity to exchange and to compare and contrast information in authentic contexts.
- Critical Reading: Each reading is accompanied by pre-, and post-reading activities designd to check comprehension, teach vocabulary in context, develoop critical reading skills---finding main ideas, recgnizing patterns of organizaation, and taking notes from reading---and practice critical reading strategies such as skimming
- Speaking from Reading: By Promoting telling and retelling, these activities teach students to use the language of the reading and make it their own. Task-based activities promote personalized responses and provide opportunities for problem solving and opinion giving.
- Extension activities: Individualized speaking and reading activities, along with reading journals, allow students to extend their repertoire of reading skills and strategies as they become seif-directed and engaged readers.
Unit 1 Birthrights
Unit 2 Health: Moving in New Directions
Unit 3 Memory
Unit 4 The Age of Communications
Unit 5 Creativity
Unit 6 Work