title: More Reading Power: Reading for Pleasure, Comprehension Skills, Thinking Skills, Reading Faster (Second Edition)
author:  Beatrice S. Mikulecky 
description: <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><I><B><I>More Reading Power,</I></B></I> Second Edition, by Beatrice S. Mikulecky and Linda Jeffries, is a student-centered reading skills textbook with a process approach to reading improvement. Its four key sections, designed to be used concurrently, help intermediate to high-intermediate&nbsp;students develop solid reading skills necessary in school, college, or business. <UL> <LI><B>Reading for Pleasure </B>encourages students to master new reading strategies and broaden their vocabulary. <LI><B>Comprehension Skills</B> emphasizes ten strategic reading skills, such as skimming, scanning, and recognizing topics and main ideas. <LI><B>Thinking Skills</B> provides practice in inference and critical thinking. <LI><B>Reading Faster</B>&nbsp;features high-interest,&nbsp;nonfiction selections&nbsp;that help students&nbsp;build speed and flexibility in their reading.</LI></UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><I><B><I>New to the&nbsp;Second Edition:</I></B></I></P> <UL> <LI>A two-color design and user-friendly format <LI>Expanded Teacher&#39;s Guide with sample syllabus <LI>Revised list of suggested books for pleasure reading</LI></UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Test booklets</B>&nbsp;contain reproducible black line masters to be used as additional practice or to test reading skills presented in the student books.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The <I>Reading Power </I>series also includes:</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px" href="http://vig.pearsoned.com/store/product/1,1207,store-14563_isbn-0138143897,00.html"><I>Basic Reading Power 1</I> (Third Edition): Beginning</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px" href="http://vig.pearsoned.com/store/product/1,1207,store-14563_isbn-0138143889,00.html"><I>Reading Power 2</I> (4th Edition): Intermediate</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><I>Advanced Reading Power 4:</I> Advanced</DIV></LI></UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>
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  Padgett, Ron
  Creative Reading: What It Is, How To Do It, and
  Why.
  National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana,
  Ill.
  ISBN-0-8141-0906-3
  97
  178p.
  National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W.
  Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096 (Stock No.
  09063-3050: $16.95 members, $22.95 nonmembers).
  Viewpoints (Opinion/Position Papers, Essays, etc.)
  (120)
  Guides
  Non-Classroom Use (055)
  MF01/PC08 Plus Postage.
  *Creative Thinking; *Critical Reading; Higher
  Education; Imagination; *Reading Attitudes; Reading
  Habits; *Reading Instruction; *Reading Strategies;
  *Reading Writing Relationship; Recreational Reading;
  Secondary Education
  IDENTIFIERS
  Aesthetic Reading; *Reading Uses; Text Factors;
  Typography
  ABSTRACT
  This book aims to enlarge the possibilities of
  reading by suggesting ways to make reading more imaginative and by
  encouraging a new attitude toward the act of re