Sunday, September 14, 2014

Reader's Choice Fourth Edition

If you're reading this blog and you are an ESL tutor, Reader's Choice, by Sandra Silberstein, Barbara K. Dobson and Mark A. Clarke, published by The University of Michigan Press, may not be a new book to you, but this is the first week I have perused it.  The fourth edition has a publication date of 2005, so it's not a new book - just new to me. The copy I borrowed from my local municipal library, is in excellent condition. I don't know if the condition is owing to it being a new book to our library, or if it has been infrequently used.  I hope it's not the latter. 


My ESL Learners vary in level.  I could see this book being helpful for all of them in the future.  Clearly, it is aimed at elevating the reading skills of already advanced English Learners.  Its scope is wide, in that the variety of material and lessons presented requires the Learner to grow their vocabulary,  read and understand fiction as well as science, do work on the internet and decipher mixed graphic and text information.   It contains frequently used idioms, that native English speakers may not even think are idioms because they are so common and ordinary. The comprehension exercises are excellent and the nonprose reading is an essential skill in the day to day lives of most Learners.  There are plenty of critical reading passages and discussion prompts. The tome weighs in at over 400 pages.  This is a book that can be used in a class setting as well as  one-on-one tutoring sessions.  

If you have not used nor seen the Fourth Edition of Reader's Choice,  and you have advanced ESL Learners, this may be a resource that becomes indispensable to you. If your library has the newest iteration, Fifth Edition of Readers's Choice, you should take a look.  I'm going to see if any of the libraries in my area have it in their collections. 



Thank you, University of Michigan Press for such  comprehensive books!







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