"[This] program helps adult learners improve their skills in each of the four components of reading: alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary development, and comprehension."--Page 4 of cover.

Contemporary's Reading Basics is a TABE correlated series targeting toward the adult learner who needs to improve basic reading skills. This program provides detailed lessons through a Workbook and engaging stories and articales in the correlating Reader, allowing students to practice using the reading skills just learned. The Intermediate 2 level is aimed at TABE level "D" - reading levels 6.6 - 8.9.

Contemporary's Reading Basics is a TABE correlated series targeted toward the adult learner who needs to improve basic reading skills. This program provides detailed lessons through a Workbook, plus engaging stories and articles in the correlated Reader, allowing students to practice using the reading skills just learned. The Intermediate 2 level is aimed at TABE level "D" - reading levels 6.6 - 8.9.

The Routledge Intermediate Welsh Reader is a comprehensive reader designed to provide varied, stimulating and up-to-date reading material for learners of Welsh at the intermediate level. The Welsh Reader provides a bridge between basic literacy skills and the ability to read full novels and newspapers in Welsh. It consists of thirty-five authentic readings, graded on the basis of complexity of vocabulary, grammar and syntax. These readings are drawn from a range of contemporary sources such as newspapers and magazines as well as novels and historical works. It is ideal for learners who already possess a knowledge of essential grammar and vocabulary and who wish to expand their knowledge of the language through contextualized reading material. Key features include: extracts of modern literature and newspaper/magazine articles vocabulary lists for quick reference short grammar explanations of any complicated structures initial consonant mutations marked typographically comprehension and discussion questions full answer key Suitable for both class use and independent study, The Routledge Intermediate Welsh Reader is an essential tool for facilitating vocabulary learning and increasing reading proficiency.

This book provides all the help that an intermediate Latin learner will need to read the first two books of the Aeneid.

This report gathers & collates the best national data available to provide a reliable & comprehensive overview of American reading today. This report relies on the most accurate data available, which consists of large, nat. studies conducted on a regular basis by U.S. fed. agencies, supplemented by academic, foundation, & business surveys. Although there has been measurable progress in recent years in reading ability at the elementary school level, all progress appears to halt as children enter their teenage years. There is a general decline in reading among teenage & adult Americans. Both reading ability & the habit of regular reading have greatly declined among college grad. The declines have demonstrable social, economic, cultural, & civic implications. Illus.