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Accessing the classics : great reads for adults, teens, and English language learners / La Vergne Rosow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosow, La Vergne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Best books.
- Best books--United States.
- Canon (Literature).
- Readers for new literates--Bibliography.
- Readers for new literates.
- Reading--Remedial teaching.
- Reading.
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Help readers improve reading skills while stimulating their appreciation and increasing their understanding of great literature. Using a scaffolding approach, this guide leads readers from simple and engaging reads to more challenging texts, and simultaneously cultivates their interest and skills. An invaluable resource for middle and high school, ABE and ESL educators, as well as for readers' advisors.||All readers-even those still learning to speak English-can enjoy the delights and benefits of great literature with the help of this motivational and practical book guide. Rosow takes you on a
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Myths and legends of ancient civilizations: Egypt, Greece, Rome and beyond
- The Middle Ages
- Renaissance literature
- Romantic movement and Victorian age
- Modernism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612421631
- 9781282421639
- 1282421638
- 9780897899680
- 0897899687
- OCLC:
- 609857949
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