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