A Closer Read
READING
LOW INTERMEDIATE
Student Edition - OER 2023 - Third Edition
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Teacher Edition - OER 2023 - Third Edition
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Vocabulary Practice Exercises
(self-correcting H5P activities)
This reading skills workbook for low intermediate students of English (Level 4 of 8 at Portland Community College) is centered on the theme of hobbies:
Gardening: Finding the topic
Pets: Identifying the main idea
Board games: Looking for supporting details
Music: Understanding pronouns
TV and movies: Skimming and scanning
Sports: Comparing and contrasting
Social media: Interpreting bar graphs and tables
Cooking and baking: Summarizing
Each illustrated unit includes a vocabulary preview with self-correcting H5P practice exercises; a warm-up discussion prompt; an informal dialog with audio recording; a skill presentation with practice and review exercises; two short articles with comprehension checks; an information transformation (annotation) task; and a wrap-up discussion prompt.
The teacher's book outlines learning objectives and provides a convenient answer key.
Two short novels make suitable extensive reading companions for this textbook: Stig Digs In and Alma Strikes a Chord.
This project was funded in part by a grant from Open Oregon Educational Resources. Maintenance funds were subsequently provided by a grant from Portland Community College's OER Steering Committee.
PCC INSTRUCTORS: If you wish to make a student edition available through the bookstore, here is the PCC Print Center job information:
NEWEST 2024 EDITION: #24626 or PCC "ISBN" 9780000246264
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PREVIOUS THIRD EDITION 2023: #24489 or PCC "ISBN" 9780000244895