Active Reading
Overview:
Learning to love reading
Level:
Elementary to Advanced (Six levels)
Versions:
International English
North American English
Most teachers love reading, but it can be a challenge to generate the same enthusiasm in our students. This is exactly what Clarity’s new Active Reading sets out to achieve.
The starting point is to present texts which are relevant, stimulating and lively. Topics range from advertisements for diets, to Internet posts on wireless gaming, to ecotourism. Text types include newspaper and magazine articles, emails, poems, recipes, stories and press releases. There’s lots of variety, and topics to appeal to every learner.
Active Reading intelligently integrates reading with other skills. A text on fashion leads on to an activity where learners create their own advertisement for a watch; a unit on recipes takes students online to research recipes from different countries. This means speaking and writing are key ingredients in each unit. And learners can listen to a range of native speakers reading the texts, helping them to identify sense groups and develop their chunking skills.
The program comes at six levels from Elementary to Advanced, with ten units in each level. Each unit starts with a video introduction, moves through controlled practice and comprehension exercises and concludes with a freer activity which expands on the topic. Active Reading can be used for classwork, homework or self-access. The program integrates with Results Manager enabling teachers to track student progress and generate reports.
Help your students learn to love reading
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with Active Reading!
