Reading Shelf
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Reading Shelf is a 3-level reading series designed for upper-elementary to lower-middle school beginner readers, featuring paired fiction and nonfiction unit topics, along with a pull-out workbook and audio CD for enhanced learning. Each student book includes warm-up questions, vocabulary lists, reading passages with audio support, multiple-choice comprehension checks, and vocabulary reviews to reinforce understanding. The workbook offers additional activities targeting reading, listening, and writing skills, suitable for homework and fostering independent practice.
Reading Shelf
- 2. Content • Overview • Key Features • Unit Walkthrough Student Book Workbook
- 3. Overview • Reading Shelf is a 3-level reading series • Reading Shelf succeeds Reading Lamp and Reading Table • Intended for Upper-elementary/Lower- middle school beginner readers • Each book includes a pull-out workbook & audio CD
- 4. • Thematically paired fiction and nonfiction unit topics • Textual and graphic comprehension activities • Full-color original illustration accompanying all fiction passages and activities • Writing activities focusing on short answers, opinions and target grammar Series Key Features
- 5. Student Book Warm-Up Includes two questions to stimulate students’ interest about the topic. Sample responses for all Warm-Up questions are provided in the answer key for each book. New Words Lists key vocabulary for each unit. Student match the words with photographs and sentences that provide context for the words.
- 6. Student Book Reading Alternates between original stories and informative passages linked by topics. An audio recording of each passage is provided on the audio CD. Students can track the words as the passages are read by native speakers.
- 7. Student Book Checking Includes multiple-choice questions of the following types: main idea, detail, pronoun reference, word usage, and negative fact questions. Mapping Reinforces comprehension of the reading passage as well as practices note-taking of passage content following a similar method as a 5 W’s chart for note-taking.
- 8. Student Book Vocabulary Review Provides additional exposure to the target vocabulary of each unit in new contexts. Summary Reviews target vocabulary for the unit, stimulates recall of key information from the reading, and develops reading fluency by repeating words and structures that students have studied in the unit.
- 9. Workbook Provides additional reading, listening, and writing activities that can be completed as homework, including dictation, various listening comprehension tasks, review activities that focus on the unit’s passage content and key vocabulary, and various writing tasks targeting both guided and original sentence writing by students.
- 10. Workbook Provides additional reading, listening, and writing activities that can be completed as homework, including dictation, various listening comprehension tasks, review activities that focus on the unit’s passage content and key vocabulary, and various writing tasks targeting both guided and original sentence writing by students.
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