A developmental reader based on a cognitive skills approach, which demystifies the process of teaching reading and thinking in English. The text teaches specific comprehension skills, including previewing, predicting, scanning and skimming.

Previous ed. published: N.Y.: Pearson Longman, 2003; More reading power / Beatrice S. Mikulecky, 2nd ed.

Continuing the case for free voluntary reading set out in the book's 1993 first edition, this new, updated, and much-looked-for second edition explores new research done on the topic in the last ten years as well as looking anew at some of the original research reviewed. Krashen also explores research surrounding the role of school and public libraries and the research indicating the necessity of a print-rich environment that provides light reading (comics, teen romances, magazines) as well as the best in literature to assist in educating children to read with understanding and in second language acquisition. He looks at the research surrounding reading incentive/rewards programs and specifically at the research on AR (Accelerated Reader) and other electronic reading products.

"'More reading power' Seecond edition, is a student-centered reading skills textbook based on a cognitive skills approach. Its four key sections, designed to be used concurrently, help intermediate to high-intermediate students develop solid reading skills necessary in school, college, or business."--Cover.

Help students think while they read in all subject areas, with the key skills of connecting, questioning, visualizing, inferring, and synthesizing.

The new Advanced Reading Power 4 offers a strategic, student-based approach to the teaching of reading that encourages users to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise.