A Closer Read

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