Read Now: For Beginning ESL Students

Author(s): Iris Ramer

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The purpose of Read Now is to provide beginning ESL students at the adult and young adult levels with reading practice using short compositions. This text gives students the opportunity to read, and also provides a number of reading comprehension exercises for continual practice.

Read Now: 

  • Encourages students to become independent readers
  • Chapters include a short composition written in a descriptive mode, followed by exercises to select the main idea and identify the correct part of speech
  • Includes a reading journal that gives students the opportunity to begin building their own vocabulary list of words
     

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE 
    To the Teacher 
    To the Student

UNIT 1 Reading
UNIT 2 Television

UNIT 3 A Visit to Brooklyn

UNIT 4 School

UNIT 5 Staying in Good Health

UNIT 6 Money

UNIT 7 Gardening

UNIT 8 Taxes
UNIT 9 Baseball
UNIT 10 Christmas in New York

UNIT 11 American Football

UNIT 12 Children

UNIT 13 Cars
UNIT 14 Stress
UNIT 15 Immigration
APPENDICES 
    Reading Journal 
    Vocabulary Work Pages 
    Notes
 

Iris Ramer

The purpose of Read Now is to provide beginning ESL students at the adult and young adult levels with reading practice using short compositions. This text gives students the opportunity to read, and also provides a number of reading comprehension exercises for continual practice.

Read Now: 

  • Encourages students to become independent readers
  • Chapters include a short composition written in a descriptive mode, followed by exercises to select the main idea and identify the correct part of speech
  • Includes a reading journal that gives students the opportunity to begin building their own vocabulary list of words
     

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE 
    To the Teacher 
    To the Student

UNIT 1 Reading
UNIT 2 Television

UNIT 3 A Visit to Brooklyn

UNIT 4 School

UNIT 5 Staying in Good Health

UNIT 6 Money

UNIT 7 Gardening

UNIT 8 Taxes
UNIT 9 Baseball
UNIT 10 Christmas in New York

UNIT 11 American Football

UNIT 12 Children

UNIT 13 Cars
UNIT 14 Stress
UNIT 15 Immigration
APPENDICES 
    Reading Journal 
    Vocabulary Work Pages 
    Notes
 

Iris Ramer