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Laubach Way to Reading

• Skill Book 1. 96 pages.
  Student edition - dark green. Teacher's edition - white or dark green.
  Teaches the name and one sounds for each letter in the alphabet plus the writing of small and capital letters and numbers. Also introduces word attack and comprehension skills.

• Skill Book 2. 80 pages.
  Student and teacher edition - burgundy or white.
  Covers sounds and regular spellings of consonants, long and short vowels, and irregular spellings.

• Skill Book 3. 128 pages.
  Student and teacher edition - dark green.
  Teaches long vowel sounds with fill in the blank and word ending exercises, sentence completion, and sequencing sentences in a story. Lessons include functional materials like ads, bills, menus, letters, and checks.

• Skill Book 4. 144 pages.
  Student edition -pale yellow cover. Teacher edition -white/orange cover.
  Presents vowel sounds such as ou, aw, eu; four sounds for s; three sounds for ch; two sounds each for c and g; plus words ending in ion. Lessons progress from basic consonants to short vowels, long vowels, and other vowels and consonant spellings.

Contemporary's New Beginnings In Reading , Books 2-8.
Tivenan. Contemporary Books.
Reading Level 0-3 (Laubach 1)
A series of nine books designed to bring students up to a third-grade reading level or reinforce the reading skills of students who read at the third- or fourth-grade level. Small skill increments and a lot of repetition combined with content requiring higher-level thinking skills make this especially appropriate for adult beginning readers. Each book contains 5-7 lessons and introduces only one phonics principle. Each lesson introduces seven sight words and no more than two prefixes or suffixes. Each book contains pre- and post-tests, exercises, answer key and flashcards.

• "Groundbreaker Exercises" provides an introduction and is appropriate for students with very limited reading skills.

• Odd numbered books (1,3,5,7) focus on life skill issues.

• Even numbered books (2,4,6,8) focus on reading and comprehension.

Readings in Cultural Literacy.
Margulies and Crowell. Educational Design. 155 pages.
Reading Level 4-5 (Laubach 4, Challenger 1), high interest.
The authors feel that everybody should know something about the following subjects: Trojan War, stories, proverbs, sayings and expressions, authors, capitalism, communism, slavery, segregation, the Civil War, the two World Wars, the Holocaust, Indian civilizations in the Americas, world religions, new life forms, the study of the mind, astronomy and astrology, explorers, evolution, famous artists and composers, famous buildings and monuments, sports heroes, women, outlaws and lawmen, historical Mexican heroes, Native Americans, Thinkers of ancient Greece and the Bible. Important words and names are highlighted. Each selection includes several good questions. Includes index.

Reading for Today: A Sequential Program for Adults.
Reading Level 1-2 for Book 2 (Laubach 2)
Reading Level 2-3 for Book 3
A developmental program which introduces sight words, phonics, structure of written English and comprehension skills as well as providing opportunities to develop oral language skills. Themes of lessons center around high interest, realistic adult situations.

• Book 2 focuses on short vowel sounds, plurals with -s, inflectional endings -s, -ed, -ing, on verbs, contractions, capitalization, possessive nouns with 's, doubling final consonant to add -ed and -ing to verbs as well as reading for facts and details.

• Book 3 focuses on long vowel sounds, compound words, irregular plurals, adding -er to nouns, sentence ending punctuation, irregular verbs and quotation marks as well as reading for facts and the main idea.

Developing Everyday Reading Skills.
Margulies and Feder
Reading level 2-3 for Book 1 (Challenger 1)
Reading level 3-4 for Book 2
A series that teaches reading comprehension using life skills material from home and work situations. Each chapter contains a series of simple statements or short passages each accompanied by a multiple choice question revolving around a particular topic. Topics include signs, want ads, illustrated instructions, sentences with "if," understanding negatives, labels and diagrams, following directions, reasoning and making decisions from written material, sequence, words in context and work vocabulary among others.

Reading Attainment System.
Crowell and Mosenfelder
Reading level 3-3.5 for Book 1 (Challenger 1)
Reading level 3.5-3.8 for Book 2
Reading level 3.8-4 for Book 3
Reading level 4-4.5 for Book 4
A series of four books containing a variety of high-interest reading selections of 350-450 words each in social studies, history, law, geography, science, consumer skills, health and nutrition among other topics. Each selection is accompanied by a short glossary and several types of exercises. Exercises test comprehension, improve vocabulary and develop thinking and reasoning skills. Answer key is included.

Reading in the Content Areas: Literature 1.
Margulies and Crowell
Reading level 5+ (Laubach 4, Challenger 1)
A collection of short stories, excerpts from novels, nonfiction, poetry and drama which can be used as part of a program to teach students to develop critical reading and thinking skills. This is accomplished through an interactive approach which includes discussion, reading and exercises which encourage participants to read between the lines (interpretation) and integrate new ideas and information into their existing knowledge (application). A separate Teacher's Guide provides objectives, pre-reading activities, starting the story and post-reading activities for each selection. The program also contains photocopy masters.

Reading in the Content Areas: Science 2.
Reading level 5+ (High Interest, Challenger 5-6)
A collection of readings on topics in science including ethics, biology, physics, chemistry and earth science. Selections are reprinted from a variety of sources including newspapers, magazines and various science books. Includes definitions at the bottom of many pages.

Words on the Page, The World in Your Hands.
Lipkin and Solotaroff
Reading level 5-7 (High Interest, Challenger 5-7)
A series of three books, containing literature written and adapted by contemporary writers. Includes stories, poems and essays targeted to adult new readers.

Building Basic Skills in Reading
Reading level 5-7 (Laubach 4, Challenger 5-7)
Part of Contemporary's Building Basic Skills series. These two workbooks help students to develop basic foundation skills in reading. Units include lessons, passages for reading and exercises on both the current topic and for review.

• Book 1 focuses on the main idea, both stated and unstated, supporting details, sequence, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, rank of importance, context, synonyms and antonyms, examples and descriptions, root words, prefixes, suffixes, compound words and making inferences.

• Book 2 focuses on reading critically for facts and opinions, bias, propaganda, style and tone. It also covers following written directions and reading diagrams, charts, listings, schedules and graphs.

Developing Everyday Reading Skills
Reading level 2-3 for Book 1 (Challenger 1)
Reading level 3-4 for Book 2
A series that teaches reading comprehension using life skills material from home and work situations. Each chapter contains a series of simple statements or short passages each accompanied by a multiple choice question revolving around a particular topic. Topics include signs, want ads, illustrated instructions, sentences with "if," understanding negatives, labels and diagrams, following directions, reasoning and making decisions from written material, sequence, words in context and work vocabulary among others.

Stories That Are Not Boring.
Gruber.
Reading level 7 (Laubach 4, Challenger 4-8)
Includes easy-to-read, high interest articles on a variety of topics such as sports, careers, health, food and ordinary people. Each article is followed by vocabulary words, topics for discussion or writing and several multiple choice questions.