Contextual Reading. Third Edition

Author: [USA] Foster
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: The "Mastering English Reading" series is a rare and newly released English graded reading program. This series mainly has five features:
1. The topics of the articles are diverse and are all subjects that readers are interested in and concerned about.
2. It emphasizes the teaching and training of reading skills, helping learners systematically master reading skills, correct bad reading habits and methods, and improve reading ability.
3. It not only focuses on cultivating students' ability to read words and sentences but also emphasizes developing their ability to analyze the structure of passages.
4. It focuses on cultivating students' reading intelligence, such as consciously training students' ability to guess words and meanings, as well as their ability to reason and judge in post-reading exercises.
5. It emphasizes cultivating students' communicative skills during the reading process. The discussion topics after reading are diverse and closely related to students' life experiences, which not only avoids the mechanical nature of reading exercises but also enhances students' communicative skills. The series covers a wide range of topics, is fresh and interesting, making vocabulary learning more effortless. The exercises are uniquely arranged, highly targeted, and systematically train learners' reading comprehension skills. It breaks tradition by comprehensively introducing reading strategies and techniques, proposing a new approach to reading learning.
The five levels of the "Mastering English Reading" series:
1. Steps and Plateaus
2. Out of Ordinary
3. Across the Board
4. In Context
5. Between the Lines