Includes an appendix.

"Reading Power 4 is a new updated edition of the successful student-centered reading skills textbook Advanced Reading Power. It's unique structure, featuring four parts to be used concurrently, allows advanced level students to develop the multiple skills and strategies involved in the reading process.

Overview
Extensive Reading helps students to build reading fluency, increase comprehension, and broaden vocabulary.
Vocabulary Building includes numerous strategies for learning vocabulary, including using context clues, analyzing word parts, and noticing collocations.
Comprehension Skills teaches scanning, making predictions and inferences, recognizing patterns of organization, identifying genre, skimming, and critical reading.
Reading Fluency features high-interest, nonfiction selections that help students improve their reading rate and flexibility.'' (Book Cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction

Part 1 - Extensive reading

Unit 1: An introduction to extensive reading

Unit 2: Fiction and nonfiction

Unit 3: Books for extensive reading

Part 2 - Vocabulary building

Unit 1: Learning new vocabulary from your reading

Unit 2: Inferring meaning from context

Unit 3: Word parts

Unit 4: Phrases

Part 3 - Comprehension skills

Unit 1: Scanning and previewing

Unit 2: Making inferences and predictions

Unit 3: Paragraphs: Structure and reference

Unit 4: Identifying the pattern

Unit 5: Reading for study

Unit 6: Genres of writing

Unit 7: Skimming

Unit 8: Critical reading

Part 4 - Reading fluency

Unit 1: An introduction to reading fluency

Unit 2: People who have made a difference

Unit 3: The impact of modern technology

Unit 4: Issues and ideas

Appendix