Breakthrough Comprehension

Title : Breakthrough Comprehension - A new approach to understanding English texts Workbook 1 ISBN : 981-4133-14-0 Pages: 100   Title : Breakthrough Comprehension - A new approach to understanding English texts Workbook 2 ISBN : 981-4133-15-9 Pages: 112     Title : Breakthrough Comprehension - A new approach to understanding English texts Workbook 3 ISBN : 981-4133-16-7 Pages: 124   Published Price : TBA

About the series
Breakthrough Comprehension is a series of three Workbooks specially developed to meet the needs and interests of secondary school students in improving and refining their comprehension skills.

The Workbooks use a range of modern strategies to help students improve their reading and understanding of written texts. Structured, accessible tasks develop the literal, inferential and evaluative comprehension skills required for success in all school subjects, especially English.

The activities in the Workbooks include cloze exercises, discussion activities, formulating open-ended and closed questions, genre identification, identifying facts and opinions, identifying main ideas, justifying choices, level 1, 2, 3 comprehension, locating topic sentences, multiple-choice questions, summarizing, true/false judgements, and who, what, where, when, why and how questions.

Features

• Caters for a wide range of reading and interest levels
• Trains students to use a variety of comprehension strategies
• Covers many different contemporary text types
• Complements any ongoing programme in reading comprehension
  

Author
Charles Maekivi has been a teacher of English for more than 20 years. He has written texts for schools, magazine articles, and several works of fiction, including the popular Rust: A collection of short stories. He is currently involved in developing a series of resources for use in high school English classes.

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