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1 Comment Category: Books
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A comprehensive manual for pre- and in-service ESL and EFL educators, this frontline text balances insights from current reading theory and research with highly practical, field-tested strategies for teaching and assessing L2 reading in secondary and post-secondary contexts. Teaching Readers of English:

• Provides a through yet accessible survey of L2 reading theory and research

• Addresses the unique cognitive and socioeducational challenges encountered by L2 readers
• Covers the features of L2 texts that teachers of reading must understand
• Acquaints readers with methods for designing reading courses, selecting curricular materials, and planning instruction
• Explores the essential role of systematic vocabulary development in teaching L2 literacy
• Includes practical…

5 Comments Category: Illiteracy HELP
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Do you think that these blogs, forums, text messages and short hand acronyms, etc are contributing to the downfall of grammar, spelling, punctuation and general literacy in America and around the World?

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1 Comment Category: Reading Skills Help
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Below are some different text types. Think about which of the above reading sub-skills we would use to read these texts.
1. An academic article we need to read for an essay we are writing.
2. A telephone directory.
3. The editorial of a newspaper on a topic we care about a lot.
4. An advertisement for a job that might be suitable.

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Tags: at, Comprehend, Comprehension, e-books on using graphic organizers non fiction text, Helping, how to help students comprehend nonfiction, Literacy, literacy skills, Nonfiction, Reading, reading skills needed to comprehend nonfiction, Students, texts

As students get older, the texts we use to teach them get increasingly more difficult. Also, teachers rely more heavily on nonfiction texts to teach higher-level concepts. Further, the skills students use to comprehend nonfiction are different than for fictional texts. Most of us would agree that content area teachers in middle and high schools are much more comfortable focusing on content instruction than on reading and writing processes.

What’s the problem?

For students who struggle with reading, these issues combine to create a common dilemma that teachers observe daily in classrooms around this country. Teachers are faced with middle and…