Academic Reading 1

Academic Reading helps students develop the reading skills and vocabulary needed in academic contexts. The activities mirror many of the questions that students might encounter on a TOEFL® or IELTS exam.

The series helps students develop such skills as:
- skimming,
- scanning,
- reading for gist,
- understanding reference,
- understanding inference,
- understanding supporting detail,
- guessing meaning through context,
- summarizing, comparing and contrasting,
- understanding tone,
- understanding rhetorical purpose, bias and so on.

The first activity in each unit is a skimming activity. Scanning skills are worked on through the comprehension and vocabulary questions. The comprehension questions have a variety of question types which demand that students understand and interpret gist, reference, inference and so on.

Also, there are explicit activities that examine vocabulary in detail: word parts, word families, guessing meaning through context and so on.

Lastly, critical thinking and critical reading are again skills that are explicitly developed in each unit. Every unit dives into skills development.

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