Reading Power

Intended for beginning-level young adult and adult students of English as a Second Language, this innovative text combines the elements of a successful reading program with a unique, developmental format designed to teach a wide range of reading skills.

Advanced Reading Power, by Beatrice S. Mikulecky and Linda Jeffries, is a student-centered reading skills textbook based on a cognitive skills approach.

Beginning Level. The Reading Power Series is based on a cognitive skills approach. These student-centered reading skills texts help students go beyond rote learning to develop the solid reading skills good readers take for granted.

Developing Reading Power This unique supplemental series features high-interest stories from Highlights for Children magazine, followed by work sheets with proven strategies that match any curriculum and help develop the skills students need. Includes skills in recognizing the letters of the alphabet, word completion—using models; recognizing unknown words through pictures and/or context; rhyming words; how, where, when, who, and what; main idea through pictures.

Free voluntary reading looks better and more powerful than ever. Stephen D. Krashen, PhD, is an advocate for free voluntary reading in schools and has published many journal articles on the subject. Free Voluntary Reading: Power 2010 collects the last ten years of his extensive work and reconsiders all aspects of this important debate in light of the latest findings.