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WHATS THE POINT? Book Two, Learning to Learn from Real Reading = 192-Page Student Text
ISBN 978-0-9627878-9-8 18.00 USD
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WHAT'S THE POINT, BOOK TWO, Learning to Learn from Real Reading = 192-Page Student Text with Incorporated Answer Key
To get right to the point, WHAT’S THE POINT? Book Two: Learning to Learn from Real Reading gets right to the point! No space is wasted on overly-detailed “teacher talk” or tedious exercises. Instead, adapted high-interest reading material (at perhaps a 5th-grade level of difficulty) insures learning success. From the start, text-users demonstrate real reading comprehension by Recognizing Main Ideas & Messages, Identifying Significant Details, Paraphrasing Messages in their own words, Asking & Answering Main-Idea Questions (in list, outline, or essay form), Recalling & Retelling what they’ve read or learned and Expressing their own information or thoughts. Finally, they Go Beyond the Text by applying the reading skills they’ve practiced to real-life materials of their own choosing—current non-fiction or self-help advice, news articles, short fiction (even a simplified classic novel), anecdotes, etc.
Some typical Units 1 & 2 Reading Sections are "Getting Acquainted with Names," "Problems & Solutions," "Communication in Relationships," "Better Health," "Self-Improvement," and "The Nature of Emergencies." These in turn are divided into titled paragraphs of approximately equal length and structure, making them ideal for co-operative learning activities. The "correct answers" to the reading- activity items that follow the selections are incorporated into the text itself: in completing them, participants not only demonstrate reading comprehension "on a general-idea level" but also acquire vocabulary and paraphrasing to help them learn how to restate and summarize. Some of the highlights of Unit Three (Stories--Fact & Fiction) are adapted "Real Events from the News," "Short Fiction," and two greatly simplified versions of the classic novel Moby Dick: in both Beginning-Level Illustrated Form and as Adapted Text. The final Unit, "Putting It All Together," is a Review Test on "Reading Skills & Strategies." Its subject matter is Literacy.
ISBN 978-0-9627878-9-8 978-1-891077-02-9 $18.00
(Whether the "lower-level" WHAT'S THE POINT? Book One, subtitled Beginning to Read for Meaning [978-1-891077-02-9], is more or less "challenging" than Book Two is debatable. Because the point of the reading-skills system is for students to read for meaning from the start, Book One contains no instruction in decoding words or analyzing grammar. Instead, it is a unique "Reading Skills & Strategies Primer." That's because it teaches learners how to read and understand a variety of adapted reading-matter types--like "Signs & Symbols," "Visuals" (Photos, Drawings, Cartoons), "One-Liners" (Proverbs, Quotes), "Short Fiction," "True Stories," "Humor," "Personal Communication," etc. before they are presented with the "Factual Text-Like Information" of expository prose. Two CDs are available to help out non-native speakers of English and new readers.)
To get right to the point, WHAT’S THE POINT? Book Two: Learning to Learn from Real Reading gets right to the point! No space is wasted on overly-detailed “teacher talk” or tedious exercises. Instead, adapted high-interest reading material (at perhaps a 5th-grade level of difficulty) insures learning success. From the start, text-users demonstrate real reading comprehension by Recognizing Main Ideas & Messages, Identifying Significant Details, Paraphrasing Messages in their own words, Asking & Answering Main-Idea Questions (in list, outline, or essay form), Recalling & Retelling what they’ve read or learned and Expressing their own information or thoughts. Finally, they Go Beyond the Text by applying the reading skills they’ve practiced to real-life materials of their own choosing—current non-fiction or self-help advice, news articles, short fiction (even a simplified classic novel), anecdotes, etc.
Some typical Units 1 & 2 Reading Sections are "Getting Acquainted with Names," "Problems & Solutions," "Communication in Relationships," "Better Health," "Self-Improvement," and "The Nature of Emergencies." These in turn are divided into titled paragraphs of approximately equal length and structure, making them ideal for co-operative learning activities. The "correct answers" to the reading- activity items that follow the selections are incorporated into the text itself: in completing them, participants not only demonstrate reading comprehension "on a general-idea level" but also acquire vocabulary and paraphrasing to help them learn how to restate and summarize. Some of the highlights of Unit Three (Stories--Fact & Fiction) are adapted "Real Events from the News," "Short Fiction," and two greatly simplified versions of the classic novel Moby Dick: in both Beginning-Level Illustrated Form and as Adapted Text. The final Unit, "Putting It All Together," is a Review Test on "Reading Skills & Strategies." Its subject matter is Literacy.
ISBN 978-0-9627878-9-8 978-1-891077-02-9 $18.00
(Whether the "lower-level" WHAT'S THE POINT? Book One, subtitled Beginning to Read for Meaning [978-1-891077-02-9], is more or less "challenging" than Book Two is debatable. Because the point of the reading-skills system is for students to read for meaning from the start, Book One contains no instruction in decoding words or analyzing grammar. Instead, it is a unique "Reading Skills & Strategies Primer." That's because it teaches learners how to read and understand a variety of adapted reading-matter types--like "Signs & Symbols," "Visuals" (Photos, Drawings, Cartoons), "One-Liners" (Proverbs, Quotes), "Short Fiction," "True Stories," "Humor," "Personal Communication," etc. before they are presented with the "Factual Text-Like Information" of expository prose. Two CDs are available to help out non-native speakers of English and new readers.)
