"Reader's Choice is among the world's best loved and most successful ESL/EFL textbooks for the teaching of academic skills. Based on the theory that proficient reading requires the coordination of a number of skills, this classic text recognizes that the most important of these is the reader's ability to select the proper skills or strategies to solve each reading challenge. The exercises and readings in Reader's Choice help students to become independent, efficient readers.

Each carefully selected reading is accompanied by a wide variety of exercises. Skills-focused units alternate with units centering on full reading passages. Reader's Choice, 5th Edition , preserves this proven format and popular readings while bringing new material and updates to every unit from the previous edition.

New in this edition of Reader's Choice:
Visual Literacy: Today's students are confronted with a dizzying array and combination of print and graphics. This edition features more activities that develop strategies for gleaning information from combinations of text and graphics.
Web Work: The ability of today's students to evaluate information sources is nowhere more crucial than on the Internet. Extensive Web Work appears in three skills units and additional web-based activities occur throughout the book. The book's companion site (www.press.umich.edu/esl/readerschoice/)
New Readings: Nine new reading selections respond to the changing environment faced by our students, taking up issues of globalization in a multicultural, multigenerational world.
Additional Vocabulary and Additional Skills: New readings bring additional vocabulary with new lexical items topically related across a series of linked readings. Additional skills work includes reading longer passages and creating prose summaries for Paragraph Main Idea work and transferring data from prose to tables and from graphs to prose. Some vocabulary activities have been moved to the companion website.

Users of Reader's Choice will be pleased to find that many of the features they have used with success have been retained: intensive language-based reading practice; realistic literacy tasks based on the use of authentic reading passages; a focus on reading skills but opportunities for speaking, listening, and writing in the context of the issues raised in the readings; activities that support task-based learning; and texts and tasks that stretch and challenge students in meaningful ways." (Book Cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction for Students

What's New in This Edition?

What Hasn't Changed?

1: Discourse Focus: Reading for Different Goals-Web Work
Nonprose Reading: Menu
Word Study: Context Clues
Word Study: Dictionary Use
Word Study: Stems and Affixes
Paragraph Reading: Main Idea

2: Reading Selections 1A-1B: Language Policy
1A "Can English Be Dethroned?" (United Nations Report)
1B "English Seen as Co-Star among Global Languages"
(Linguistics)
Reading Selection 2: Essay (Memoir): "Gate 4-A"
Reading Selections 3A-3C: Globalization
3A "The Globalization of Tourism" (United Nations Report)
3B "The Politics of Travel" (Essay)
3C " Learning Holidays: A Thumbnail Guide" (Travel Guide)

3: Nonprose Reading: Newspaper Advertisements
Word Study: Stems and Affixes
Word Study: Dictionary Use
Sentence Study: Introduction
Sentence Study: Comprehension
Paragraph Reading: Main Idea
Discourse Focus: Reading for Different Goals-Web Work

4: Reading Selections 1A-1C: Educational Policy
1A "The Creative Spirit" (Reference Book)
1B "American Values in Education" (Textbook)
1C "School Violated Student's Rights, British Court Rules" (News Report)
Reading Selection 2: Fiction "Yolanda"
Reading Selection 3: Psychology "The Stereotype of Stereotypes"

5: Nonprose Reading: Questionnaire
Word Study: Context Clues
Word Study: Stems and Affixes
Sentence Study: Comprehension
Paragraph Reading: Restatement and Inference
Discourse Focus: Careful Reading / Drawing Inferences

6: Reading Selection 1: Economics "The Wealth of Nations"
Reading Selection 2: Essay "Mother Tongue"

7: Nonprose Reading: Charts and Graphs
Word Study: Context and Clues
Word Study: Stems and Affixes
Sentence Study: Restatement and Inference
Paragraph Analysis: Reading for Full Understanding
Discourse Focus: Prediction

8: Reading Selection 1: Business "New Life for Used Clothes"
Reading Selections 2: Economics "The World Turns Gray"
Reading Selection 3: Short Story "The Lottery"

9: Nonprose Reading: Bus Schedule
Word Study: Stems and Affixes
Sentence Study: Comprehension
Paragraph Reading: Restatement and Inference
Discourse Focus: Careful Reading / Drawing Inferences

10 Reading Selections 1A-1B: Genetic Engineering
1A "Grains of Hope" (Science Report)
1B "The Global Food Fight" (Graphic Information)
Reading Selection 2: Poetry
"How to Eat a Poem"
"Unfolding Bud"
"This is Just to Say"
"in Just-"
"Spring and Fall: To a Young Child"
Reading Selection 3: Business "Your Career-Getting Ahead: Flying High, Feeling Low"

11: Nonprose Reading: Road Map
Word Study: Context Clues
Sentence Study: Restatement and Inference
Paragraph Analysis: Reading for Full Understanding
Discourse Focus: Prediction

12: Reading Selection 1: Anthropology "The Sacred 'Rac'"
Reading Selections 2A-2B: Business and Sociology
2A "The Cross-Generational Workplace" (Business Management)
2B "Parlez-Vous Twixter?" (Social Trends)
Reading Selections 3A-3B: Family Narratives
3A "The Circuit"
3B "Fish Cheeks"

13: Longer Reading: Psychology "The Milgram Experiment"
/ Ronald E. Smith, Irwin G Sarason, Barbara Sarason

14: Longer Reading: Short Story "The Third and Final Continent"
/ Jhumpa Lahiri

Appendix