Synopses & Reviews
If you have students who wish to build on their vocabulary acquisition skills, improve their academic writing skills, and become more confident and successful readers, From Reading to Writing is the ideal pedagogical tool. This four-level, researched-based course provides a complete sequence of high-interest, thematically connected activities that fully integrate reading and writing. Timeless themes engage students and allow for recycling of ideas and vocabulary, while engaging readings provide a springboard for writing activities.
Features:
- Explicit reading and writing skill instruction guides students to become better learners.
- Contextualized writing models and carefully crafted exercises direct students through the writing process.
- Step-by-step process writing assignments with peer feedback, editing, and revising help students master common academic genres and rhetorical forms.
- Target corpus-based vocabulary from researched sources ensures that students learn the vocabulary they need most.
- ProofWriterTM , an online writing-assessment tool from ETS:
- Provides students with immediate individual feedback on Grammar, Usage, Style and Mechanics.
- Teachers can focus their feedback on higher-level writing skills.
Online Teacher’s Manuals include answer keys and unit tests. Click on the links below for the other levels of From Reading to Writing:
- From Reading to Writing 1
- From Reading to Writing 2
- From Reading to Writing 3
Table of Contents
Unit 1 Inventions
Reading 1 A Zone in Time
Reading 2 The Remarkable Clarence Birdseye
Unit 2 Careers
Reading 1 How Networking Works
Reading 2 How to Run a Successful Business
Unit 3 The Environment
Reading 1 Can Cell-Phone Recycling Help African Gorillas?
Reading 2 The Water Beneath Our Feet
Unit 4 Fact of Fiction?
Reading 1 Lucky Charms
Reading 2 Legendary Creatures
Unit 5 Personality
Reading 1 Musical Personalities
Reading 2 Eustress or You Stress?
Unit 6 Gender
Reading 1 Shopping by the Sexes
Reading 2 Fashionable Men
Unit 7 Human Nature
Reading 1 Why You Can't Turn Away
Reading 2 To Laugh Is Human
Unit 8 Privacy
Reading 1 Future with Nowhere to Hide
Reading 2 More Parents Going High-Tech to Track Kids
Unit 9 Literature
Reading 1 The Model Millionaire (Part 1)
Reading 2 The Model Millionaire (Part 2)
Avoiding Plagiarism
Grammar Reference
Correction Symbols
Vocabulary Review
Target Vocabulary