by Anthony Bruton and Angeles Broca
Ideal for low-level college-age readers, Practical Readings has 18 units with a variety of short, realistic readings.
Practical Readings features:
• a wide range of text types:
• questionnaires, maps, tour itineraries, postcards, short descriptions
• short texts which allow class time to be spent focusing on elements
within the texts:
• markers, how words point to or echo other words, how words are dropped
practice in a wide variety of reading skills:
• skimming, scanning, reading for detail, inferencing
• ample illustrations in full color
Using Practical Readings, your students will read advertisements,
maps, tour itineraries and more - English of the type that they have to
read outside of class.
You can help your students learn to read for gist and for specific information.