Advanced Reading Power: Extensive Reading, Vocabulary Building, Comprehension Skills, Reading Faster

Advanced Reading Power, by Beatrice S. Mikulecky and Linda Jeffries, is a student-centered reading skills textbook based on a cognitive skills approach. Its four key sections, designed to be used concurrently, help advanced students master reading skills needed for academic success:

• Extensive Reading helps students to build reading fluency, increase comprehension, and broaden vocabulary.
• Vocabulary Building includes numerous strategies for learning vocabulary, including using context clues, analyzing word parts, and noticing collocations.
• Comprehension Skills teaches reading skills, such as making inferences, recognizing patterns of organization, and reading critically.
• Reading Faster features high-interest, nonfiction selections that help students improve their reading rate and flexibility.

Features:

• A variety of authentic reading selections, including excerpts from college textbooks, promotes purposeful reading.
• Focus on Vocabulary sections provide practice with academic vocabulary from the unit.
• Comprehension exercises encourage students to interact with the text and develop an awareness of their own reading and thinking processes.

The Reading Power series also includes:

• Basic Reading Power 1 (Third Edition): Beginning
• Reading Power 2 (4th Edition): Intermediate
• More Reading Power 3: High-Intermediate