Product Description: The new edition of For Your Information 1: Reading and Vocabulary Skills, by Karen Blanchard and Christine Root, helps beginning students become engaged, thoughtful, and confident readers of English. Each thematic unit features high-interest readings and an assortment of activities to increase students' vocabulary base and build reading skills...read more

Beginning Level Good writing is a network of skills that can be taught, practiced, and mastered. The Longman Writing Skills series present paragraph development and composition skills in clear, teachable steps. Each book offers students dependable strategies as well as opportunities to bring their own ideas and talent to the writing process. Get Ready to Write introduces students to the fundamentals of effective writing. Students will progress from writing sentences to guided paragraphs, learn to apply organizational principles to the writing process, and at the end of the course, assemble their personal pieces into an autobiography. Other books in the series: Ready to Write (High-Beginning/Low-Intermediate Level) and Ready to Write More (Intermediate/High-Intermediate Level).

Product Description: Features *Sharpen Your Reading Skills provides explicit instruction as well as extensive practice and recycling. *Be an Active Reader features high-interest readings that allow students to apply their skills. *As You Read activities, including completion of charts, graphs, and outlines, encourage reading with a purpose...read more

High-Intermediate Level. For Your Information 1, 2, 3, and 4 feature multi-genre readings from authentic sources. The stimulating, high-interest selections will capture students' imaginations and motivate them to strive for greater comprehension. For Your Information encourages students to move beyond the readings and develop critical thinking skills. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Basic Level. For Your Information 1, 2, 3, and 4 feature multi-genre readings from authentic sources. The stimulating, high-interest selections will capture students' imaginations and motivate them to strive for greater comprehension...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)