The book “READING TO LEARN” is an intensive reading book
purposed to provide learners with various text types, reading skills,
and vocabulary skills. Reading passages with different genres will
give the learners new experiences to explore the texts related to
their interests and improve the awareness of text organization. The
text types cover biography, article, short story, news article, fairy
tales, descriptive, instruction, argumentative, historical recount,
and interview equipped with various interesting topics include
family, teenagers, fiction, sports, history, health, technology, music,
and social.
As research showed that good readers employ a variety of
reading skills when they read a text, this book provides them with
essential reading skills, such as scanning, identifying main idea,
detail and inference, previewing and predicting, summarizing,
distinguishing fact from opinion, understanding essential elements
of a story, identifying rhetorical structure, following steps in a
process, recognizing point of view, identifying key details, and
understanding implied main ideas. Those reading skills are
presented with clear explanation and practice in the ten chapters of
this book.