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How to Use This Book

Each unit in the Reading Starter Third Edition series consists of eight parts plus additional
review activities in the workbook. These parts work together to get students thinking about
the unit?셲 topic, lead students through a reading passage, check students??comprehension
of the reading passage, and then have students practice basic listening, speaking, and
writing skills. A summary of each part is provided here.

Prepare for Takeoff Vocabulary Blast-Off

This part introduces the topic This part introduces the target
of the unit. The visual support words for each unit. Sentences
enables students to create a are used to provide context.
mental picture of the topic. Students con詮걊m understanding
The questions are designed to by matching the sentences
stimulate students??interest in with the meanings or pictures
the topic. of the target words.

Reading Sentence Kick-Off

Readings vary in type and Students can practice the target
topic with carefully controlled grammar in an exercise using
vocabulary and sentence sentences from the reading
structures. Audio recordings of passage. The last question gets
each passage are provided on students to practice using the
the audio CD and as mp3 files target grammar while also
that are available for download. personalizing their answers.
Students can track the words
as native speakers read the Summary
passages.
Here students can review target
Reading Radar vocabulary to stimulate recall of
key information from the reading.
This section includes questions The repetition of words and
to test students??reading structures helps students to
comprehension. The question develop reading fluency.
types include main idea, detail,
reference, and inference.

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