<P style="MARGIN: 0px">The new <I> <B> <I>Advanced Reading Power 4</I> </B> </I> offers a strategic, student-based approach to the teaching of reading that encourages users to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise. This edition retains the original four-part structure unique to the Reading Power series, focusing on Extensive Reading, Vocabulary Building,Comprehension Skills and Reading Fluency.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>New to the Second Edition:</B> </P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">More self-directed vocabulary-building tasks embedded in exercises.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Updated vocabulary-learning strategies based on current research.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">New content organized around current issues relating to the Western lifestyle (social, economic, public health, environmental), with an emphasis on academic text types.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Enhanced focus on critical thinking and academic skills.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Targeted vocabulary items selected from frequency word list based on the Pearson International Corpus of Academic English (including both general and academic English).</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Appendix with word list for student and teacher reference.</DIV> </LI> </UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <I>Reading Power’s</I> unique methodology teaches students to view reading as a process. The series encourages students to develop a strategic approach to reading and to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise.</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Extensive Reading</B> helps students build reading fluency, increase comprehension, and broaden vocabulary.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Vocabulary Building</B> includes numerous strategies for learning vocabulary, including using context clues, analyzing word parts, and noticing collocations.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Comprehension Skills</B> teaches scanning, making predictions and inferences, recognizing patterns of organization, identifying genre, skimming, and critical reading.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Reading Fluency</B> features high-interest, nonfiction selections that help students improve their reading rate and flexibility.<BR> </DIV> </LI> </UL>