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Longman Reading Comprehension And Composition 2
Longman Reading Comprehension And Composition 2
D A Tressler/Ratna Dhar
Age (years) : 6 - 7
It's a contemporary course designed to develop and sharpen Reading and Writing skills. The selections include extracts from the works of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, biographies of icons such as Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Pandit Ravi Shankar and Steve Irwin, folktales from the Asian subcontinent and China, works of Lewis Carrol, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, William Blake, Alexandre Dumas and RL Stevenson as well as Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore, Ruskin Bond, Kamala Das, Gieve Patel and Keki N Daruwalla among others. The texts are explored through Comprehension questions designed to engage the learners in skimming, scanning, predicting, analysing, inferring and extrapolating ideas from the text. The Composition section provides graded and guided support for a variety of writing tasks covering formal and informal styles and producing a wide range of text types.
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