Joining a Community of Readers: A Thematic Approach to Reading

Joining a Community of Readers offers a holistic approach and thematic organization of high-interest readings on contemporary topics to develop reading skills and build schema.   Joining a Community of Readers maintains a constant focus on key skills while providing ample practice with shorter and longer readings. The real-life context for skill instruction engages students as they are able to stay with a single theme throughout each instructive unit.  The authors’ PRO reading strategy places an emphasis on pre-reading, active reading, and post-reading activities throughout the text and gets the students applying the skills in the context of the reading process.  Significant attention is especially given to vocabulary skills, and finding the main idea and support.