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Real Reading 4 Teacher's Manual, Creating an Authentic Reading Experience

This is a teacher's manual for "Real Reading 4," a textbook designed to provide an authentic reading experience for English language learners. The manual outlines a model lesson plan and provides unit notes, including themes, target vocabulary, and skills for each chapter, as well as an answer key for the student book.

Key Features of the Manual:

• Unit Format: Each unit has two thematically related chapters with compelling readings from authentic sources, focusing on vocabulary development. Chapters include pre-reading and post-reading activities, reading skills, reading goals, comprehension questions, and discussion activities.
• Skill Building: Emphasizes reading and vocabulary skill building, along with vocabulary learning strategies based on Paul Nation's research, to help students prepare for academic and standardized tests.
• Model Lesson Plan: Offers a generic guide for any unit, with suggested methods of instruction and variations for each section (e.g., "Think Before You Read," "Prepare to Read," "Reading Skill," "Read," "Vocabulary Check," "Comprehension Check," "Discuss," "Vocabulary Skill Building," "Learn the Vocabulary," and "Fluency Practice").
• Unit Notes (Scope and Sequence): Details the content of each unit, including:
  • Unit Theme: The overarching topic (e.g., "The Science of Sound," "In The Garden," "Children and Manners," "Tall Trees," "The Time of Your Life," "Food for Thought," "Astronomy," "Less Is More," "Face-to-Face with Big Cats," "Sustainability," "Multitasking," "Doing Business in the Developing World").
  • Chapter Overviews: Summaries of the readings within each chapter, along with a list of target vocabulary words.
  • Skills and Strategies: Specifies the reading skills (e.g., understanding text organization, previewing, predicting, recognizing point of view, understanding figurative language, identifying main ideas, scanning, visualizing, distinguishing fact from opinion, paraphrasing, understanding visual aids, identifying key details, following steps in a process, identifying rhetorical structure, recognizing multiple text references, understanding APA and MLA style, making connections) and vocabulary skills/strategies (e.g., nouns/verbs/adjectives/adverbs, similes vs. metaphors, phrasal verbs, nouns as adjectives and verbs, numerical prefixes, anti-/de-/re- prefixes, inter-/extra- prefixes, roots, onomatopoeia, collocations, multi- prefix, expressions) taught in each unit.
  • Follow-up Activities: Suggestions for speaking, writing, researching, and vocabulary games.
• Answer Key: Provides answers for exercises in the Student Book.
• Tests: Reproducible tests are available online in Microsoft Word and PDF formats for each of the 12 units, covering comprehension, vocabulary, and vocabulary skill building.