The Reading Matters series uses a communicative, integrated skills approach to developing fluency and accuracy in academic reading through writing, and speaking practice. Organized into thematic units, these texts feature stimulating, high-interest readings combined with intensive practice.
We’ve been teaching reading wrong—a leading cognitive scientist tells us how we can finally do it right
Reading Matters 4: An Interactive Approach to Reading
It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had...
Drawing upon data published in a variety of scholarly journals, monographs in education, cultural studies, media studies, and libraries and information studies, as well as their own research findings, these...
Each unit of the text is divided into three chapters of stimulating readings on topics that relate to a main unit theme, such as Health, Privacy, Creativity, and Business.
Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading, David L. Ulin asks a number of timely questions - why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now?
For example, Marshall McLuhan and Walter Ong have examined the transition from an oral world dominated by the ear to a world of printed texts dominated by the eye (McLuhan 1962; Ong 1982). Elizabeth Eisenstein (1979) argued that it was ...
Nonfiction Matters offers teachers the tools to help students explore nonfiction and dig deep to reach more complete understanding of the real world and report these insights in a compelling manner.
Reading Matters: An Interactive Approach to Reading
This World Bank report is a rich compilation of information on teaching learning materials (TLM) in Africa based on the extensive and multi-faceted experience of the author's work in the education sector in Africa.