Reading Power 2 follows on from the successful student-centered reading skills textbook Reading Power. Its unique structure, featuring four parts to be used concurrently, allows low-intermediate-level students (with a 600-word vocabulary) to develop the multiple skills and strategies involved in the reading process.

Overview

• Extensive Reading helps students to build reading fluency, broaden knowledge of vocabulary and collocation, and gain confidence.
• VocabularyBuilding offers strategies for independent vocabulary learning such as dictionary work, guessing meaning from context, and learning how words work in sentences.
• Comprehension Skills teaches reading skills such as recognizing words and phrases, scanning for information, and making inferences.
• Reading Faster builds awareness of reading speed, provides strategies and exercises for increasing speed, and offers charts for tracking progress.

New to the Fourth Edition

• An updated Extensive Reading section with a unit on fiction and non-fiction reading, more activities for evaluating student progress, and a revised suggested reading list
• Enhanced vocabulary features including new "Focus on Vocabulary" exercises and an expanded Vocabulary Building section