Description

In Real Reading students focus on the meaning of readings, they also develop critical academic skills.  Reading and vocabulary skills help students understand the structure of written English and comprehend new words.  Additional vocabulary-learning strategies - based on the research of Paul Nation - provide students with the tools they need for long-term vocabulary acquisition.

Table of Contents

The Real Reading Unit

Scope and Sequence

Unit 1 In the Water

Chapter 1 Just Add Water

Chapter 2 Phelps’s Feet

Unit 2 Telling Stories

Chapter 3 Folktales

Chapter 4 Anansi and Turtle

Unit 3 What’s for Dinner

Chapter 5 Dangerous Dining

Chapter 6 Wild Treasures

Fluency Practice 1

Unit 4 Funny Business

Chapter 7 The Science of Laughter

Chapter 8 Can’t Take a Joke

Unit 5 Some of My Best Friends Are Animals

Chapter 9 The Best-Dressed Penguin

Chapter 10 Christian the Lion

Unit 6 Learning from Mother Nature

Chapter 11 Natural by Design

Chapter 12 Swarm Intelligence

Fluency Practice 2

Unit 7 Superstitions

Chapter 13 In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

Chapter 14 The Superstitious Gene

Unit 8 Staying Alive

Chapter 15 Trapped!

Chapter 16 Why Do Some Survive?

Unit 9 Truth or Lies?

Chapter 17 Do Animals Lie?

Chapter 18 Who Am I Today?

Fluency Practice 3

Unit 10 Twice as Good

Chapter 19 Two in One

Chapter 20 Identical Strangers

Unit 11 Illusions

Chapter 21 Hugging Bugs Bunny

Chapter 22 Is Seeing Really Believing?

Unit 12 Collective Madness

Chapter 23 Tulip Fever

Chapter 24 The Dancing Plague

Fluency Practice 4

New Words

Vocabulary Practice 1-12

Fluency Progress Charts

Fluency Practice Answer Key

Pronunciation Table

Vocabulary Index

MP3 Audio Tracking Guide

Back Cover

 

Lynn Bonesteel, Series Editor

Paul Nation, Series Consultant

 

A four-level reading skills series for beginning through advanced students, Real Reading provides students with a meaningful and authentic reading experience. Compelling readings in a variety of genres have been carefully written or adapted from authentic sources and feature a principled approach to vocabulary development.

 

Real Reading Features

• Two thematically-related readings per unit encourage students to make connections.
• Reading and vocabulary skill building and vocabulary learning strategies based on Paul Nation’s research help students become more confident and successful in preparation for academic reading and reading on standardized tests.
• Controlled vocabulary based on the General Service Word List, the Academic Word List, and the Billuroglu-Neufeld List ensures students’ comprehension.
• Fluency Practice units improve reading speed and comprehension.

 

Click on the links below for the Teacher’s Manuals:

 

Real Reading 1 Teacher’s Manual

Real Reading 2 Teacher’s Manual

Real Reading 3 Teacher’s Manual

Real Reading 4 Teacher’s Manual

 

The four-level Real Reading series also includes: 

• Real Reading 2
• Real Reading 3
• Real Reading 4