PDF Basic Reading Power 1 Teacher's Guide + answer key

Basic Reading Power 1 Teacher's Guide + answer key
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Part 1: Extensive Reading

• Focus: Encourages students to read widely for enjoyment and fluency without being tested.
• Key principles: Students choose their books at an appropriate level, read at their own pace, and are not tested on the content.
• Benefits: Improves comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, syntax awareness, spelling, and writing.
• Activities: Reading fables, stories, and full-length books; sharing reading experiences through discussions (Book Conferences, Reading Circles, Book Talks) and writing (Book Reports, Book Files, Reading List). Teachers are encouraged to model enthusiasm for reading.

Part 2: Building Vocabulary

• Focus: Direct instruction of frequent words and phrases, and development of independent vocabulary learning strategies.
• Key skills: Effective dictionary use (monolingual and bilingual learner dictionaries), pronunciation, spelling, understanding parts of speech, identifying different meanings, and recognizing collocations (how words are used together).
• Tools: Vocabulary notebooks and study cards for systematic review.
• Emphasis: Learning words in context, regular review, and individualized testing.

Part 3: Comprehension Skills

• Focus: Develops "bottom-up" decoding skills (recognizing letters, words, sounds) and "top-down" thinking skills (identifying topics, making inferences, understanding paragraphs).
• Skills covered: Recognizing letters, sounds of words, individual words, and phrases; scanning for specific information; making inferences; focusing on the topic of lists and paragraphs.
• Approach: Progressive exercises, pair work, and "Focus on Vocabulary" sections to reinforce learning.

Part 4: Thinking in English

• Focus: Practices following the language and logic used by writers in English to predict sentence completions.
• Skills applied: Syntax understanding, lexical information extraction (synonyms, antonyms, etc.), applying logical patterns (analogy, categories), and relating text to background knowledge.
• Recommendation: Begin this part early in the semester, alongside the other three.

General Guidelines for Teachers:

• Use all four parts of the book regularly, dividing class time evenly.
• Model thinking processes and enthusiasm for reading.
• Encourage pair and small-group work for language acquisition and diverse thinking styles.
• Focus on thinking processes rather than just answers.
• Be sensitive to student confidence and reinforce gains.

The guide also includes a sample syllabus for distributing work over a semester in various teaching situations (integrated skills class, reading class, reading lab) and an answer key for exercises in Parts 1, 2, and 4.