Javier Arrives In The U.S.: A Text For Developing Readers

Javier Arrives in the U.S.: A Text for Developing Readers

This fictional story, based on the lives of students from a Latin community and surrounding ethnic neighborhoods, builds vocabulary and reading skills through a wide variety of reading exercises. The characters demonstrate solutions to the problems of living, working, and communicating in a new culture. Pre- and post-reading exercises in comprehension, inferencing, word families, and words with different meaning follow each chapter.From the PublisherESL Reader/reading skills book. Fictional story with reading exercises. The book is based on the lives of students from inner-city ethnic and Latin communities.From the Back CoverThis fictional story, based on the lives of students from a Latin community and surrounding ethnic neighborhoods, builds vocabulary and reading skills through a wide variety of reading exercises. The characters demonstrate solutions to the problems of living, working, and communicating in a new culture. Pre- and post-reading exercises in comprehension, inferencing, word families, and words with different meaning follow each chapter.