Power Reading - Walkthrough
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Power Reading is a three-book series aimed at intermediate to advanced English learners, developed with a four-strand approach that emphasizes meaning-focused input and output, language development, and fluency. Each unit features reading and listening passages, comprehension questions, vocabulary activities, and extension exercises to enhance language skills. The series includes various teaching materials and resources for educators to effectively implement the curriculum.
Power Reading - Walkthrough
- 2. Contents • About the Author • Overview • 4 Strand Principle • Key Features • Components • Unit Walkthrough • Teacher’s Materials
- 3. About the Author The writer, Paul Nation, has been training teachers of English for over forty years and he has taught in Indonesia, Thailand, the Unites States, Finland and Japan. He has written numerous books and articles about the teaching and learning of vocabulary, language teaching methodology, and curriculum design. He is professor emeritus at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
- 4. Overview • Power Reading is a three-book series specifically developed for the intermediate to advanced English language learner (A2-B1) • Each book is made up of 16 units with 6 pages per unit. A wordlist is also included at the end of each book. • The series has been developed to support a four-strand approach to language instruction • Each unit incorporates reading and listening passages of related content to both engage and inform learners. • Extension activities in the Power Reading series support the development of learners’ reading, listening, writing, and discussion skills through supplemental content that builds on each unit’s main topic.
- 5. 4 Strand Principle Meaning-focused input Learning through listening and reading where the learner’s attention should focus on the message of the material that they encounter Meaning focused output Learning through speaking and writing where the learner’s attention should be focused on communicating messages to others. They should be speaking and writing about things that they know a lot about but which stretches their language knowledge Language-focused learning The deliberate attention to language features by involving the deliberate learning of pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and discourse structure. It also involves the deliberate learning of language learning strategies Fluency development Learning to make the best use of what is already known. This strand includes developing listening fluency, speaking fluency, reading fluency, and writing fluency
- 6. Key Features • Informative reading passages developed to add to the real-world knowledge of learners while practicing language skills in English • Comprehension questions targeting facts and details, making inferences, understanding writers’ purposes, and understanding meaning of words and phrases from context • Vocabulary development activities specifically targeting mid-frequency and academic words • Skill-synthesis extension activities developed to practice multiple language skills through content related to each unit’s topic • Audio recordings of reading passages • Teacher’s materials; unit tests, review tests, and vocabulary quizzes
- 7. Unit Themes Thematically-organized readings on high- interest topics from a variety of both academic and modern subjects including; Technology, Business, Psychology, Art, Food, Education, and more!
- 8. Components • Student Book • Answer Key • MP3-CD • Teacher’s Materials
- 16. Teacher’s Materials • You can find a list of Teaching Tips available in each book. These tips provide an insight on how to utilize the unit structure in each level for a specific title • Furthermore a unit test, review test, vocabulary quiz, and classroom presentations are also included.
- 17. Teacher’s Materials Teacher’s classroom slides for each activity in each unit, including answers to unit exercises and guidelines for activities
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