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About Reading Juice Plus

Passage

The passages promote young minds’ curiosity by offering a wide variety of topics that are fun to read and easy to teach. Since this non-fiction
includes fascinating facts and details about people, places and events, learners will expand their knowledge base as well as their language skills.

Appealing text is vital in order to inspire and encourage students to strive for greater English fluency.
Each passage is written in natural English at the appropriate proficiency level, and a word count is included. The teacher can use this
information to determine how quickly students read the material. This nurtures both fluency and ease with written English.

Vocabulary

Essential vocabulary is defined
as a pre-reading activity.
These words are boldfaced in
every passage. Students can Skimming
&
read the definitions and then Scanning
see how each term is used
within the text. Learning words Each passage includes skimming and
in context is the most powerful scanning questions to help learners
way to master new vocabulary. improve their ability to quickly find
specific information in the text. This
activity gives students practice in a skill
all readers use daily: identifying the key
words in a question and then locating
the associated part in the passage.

Comprehension
Vocabulary
Following each passage, Expansion
multiple-choice comprehension
questions evaluate the learner’s Each passage’s vocabulary expansion
understanding of the material. exercise strengthens learner’s knowledge
The main idea is always tested. of the key words since they must truly
The remaining questions require understand each word’s meaning to finish
students to identify details, find the word analogies or complete the cloze
information, draw conclusions, make Summary sentences and paragraphs. By doing these
inferences, and differentiate between Each unit concludes with a summary exercises, learners will be able to “own” the
facts and opinions. Additional activity designed to activate the students’ words. Such ownership makes it more likely
comprehension exercises require the recall of the facts contained in the that students will use them in speaking and
highest-level thinking skills such as deciding passage. To complete the summary, writing. Independent use of the vocabulary is
where to insert sentences in the passage students must interpret and then the strongest indicator that a word has been
or choosing which statement would best synthesize the main ideas and the learned which is stored in students'
introduce or conclude the text. supporting details. long-term memories. 45