Burgmeier, Arline

Inside Reading Intro : The Academic Word List in Context / Arline Burgmeier ; Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman (Series Director). - 2nd ed. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 164 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. - Inside Reading .

"Develop reading skills and acquire the Academic Word List
- Explicit reading skills provide the foundation for effective, critical reading
- High-interest readings from academic content areas motivate students
- Corpus-based examples from the Oxford English Corpus teach real-life English." (Book Cover) ACKNOWLEDGMENT
AN INSIDER`S GUIDE TO ACADEMIC READING
Unit 1 Mapping the Human Brain
Content Area: Physiology
READING SKILL: Previewing
Reading 1: An Early Brain Map
Reading 2: Brain Mapping Today
Vocabulary Activities
Unit 2 It's About Time
Content Area: Geography
READING SKILL: Pronoun References
Reading 1: What Time Is It?
Reading 2: Time Zones
Vocabulary Activity
Unit 3 Living with Bacteria
Content Area: Biology
READING SKILL: Identifying Definitions
Reading 1: Harmful and Helpful Bacteria
Reading 2: Fighting Bacteria
Vocabulary Activities
Unit 4 A Changing World
Content Area: Sociology
READING SKILL: Identifying Cause and Result
Reading 1: Changing a Traditional Way of Life
Reading 2: Changing the Future
Vocabulary Activities
Unit 5 Cities Are Growing Up
Content Area: Urban Planning
READING SKILL: Identifying Examples
Reading 1: Skyscrapers
Reading 2: The Growth of Cities
Vocabulary Activities
Unit 6 The History of Food
Content Area: Nutrition
READING SKILL: Identifying Time Signals
Reading 1: Food Traditions
Reading 2: Preserving Foods
Vocabulary Activities
Unit 7 Patterns of Technology
Content Area: Business
READING SKILL: Identifying Steps in Sequence
Reading 1: Bar Codes
Reading 2: 2-D Bar Codes
Vocabulary Activities
Unit 8 Stealing from All of Us
Content Area: Art
READING SKILL: Using a Dictionary
Reading 1: Museum Thief
Reading 2: A Bold Thief
Vocabulary Activities
Unit 9 Farms of Tomorrow
Content Area: Earth Science
READING SKILL: Identifying Contrast Signals
Reading 1: Hydroponics
Reading 2: Farming in Many Places
Vocabulary Activities
Unit 10 The Forces of Nature
Content Area: Engineering
READING SKILL: Identifying Signal Words for Comparison
Reading 1: Sun, Wind, and Water
Reading 2: Using Renewable Energy Sources
Vocabulary Activities
INDEX: OXFORD 3000 AND ACADEMIC WORD LIST

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