Author: Beauvois

Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780155012820

SchTmas is a strategies-oriented reader. Its purpose is to help the beginning language learner become a strategic reader. Reading is practiced in the context of teaching strategies. Such reading strategies include skimming for the main ideas, scanning for specific information, guessing words from context, recognizing text organization and function, using a dictionary efficiently, and recognizing temporal and personal references. The strategies in this book go from concrete to abstract.