Contents and Links to blog posts

Reading Power 2

introduction to the textbook

Part 1

Extensive Reading

What is extensive reading?

What are the benefits of reading?

Why do we read? What are the levels of reading?

Unit 1 - New words in your Reading

Unit 2 - Fiction and Nonfiction

Unit 3 - Books  - books on Google Books

Part 2

Vocabulary Building 

Unit 1- Guidelines for learning vocabulary - Parts of Speech - Sounds &Letters

Unit 2 - Learning New words from the reading

Unit 3 - Guessing Meaning from Context 

Unit 4- Word Parts   word parts I - word family

Unit 5 - How words are used together  - Phrases - Collocations

Unit 6- How words Work in  Sentences - Parts of a sentence

Part 3

Comprehension

Unit 1 - Previewing

Unit 2 - Scanning

Unit 3 - Making Inference 

Unit 4 - Focusing on the topic

Unit 5 - Understanding the Paragraph

Unit 6 - Identifying The Patterns

Unit 7 - Thinking in English

Part 4 

Reading Faster

Passages from The Textbook

Listen and read

Textbook Exercises:

Links on the blog

- Part 2 Unit 1 pages 37 and 39 and 40
- Part 2 Unit 3 pages 55 to 60 Exercises 4-5-6-7-8

- Part 2 Unit 4 - pages 62 -69

- Part 2 Unit  2 pages 91 -92

- Part 3 Unit 2 Exercise 15 page 134

- Part 3 Unit 3 Exercise 10 page 116

- Part 2 pages 149 and 161 and 183

- Vocabulary Building pages 149 and 161 and 183
- Part 3 unit 6 - Exercise 12 page 204

- Homework Philosophy