Myrna Bell Rochester - Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Reading and Comprehension

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Have you studied Spanish for a year or two, or perhaps longer? Was it recently, or a while back? Youve no doubt worked from textbooks that contained controlled reading materials. usted; se para expresar la voz pasiva Lelia Driben (Mxico) La a personal Luis Buuel (Espaa) Los adverbios (Mxico/Guatemala/Belice/El Salvador/Honduras) Los nmeros ordinales; el participio pasado (II) Have you studied Spanish for a year or two, or perhaps longer? Was it recently, or a while back? Youve no doubt worked from textbooks that contained controlled reading materials.

Now you find yourself almost able to read a Spanish article, essay, poem, short story, or novel, and you are motivated to do it. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Reading and Comprehensioneither in a class or on your ownwill provide you with the skills you need to take you to the next level: independent reading in Spanish. Reading skills typically exceed listening, speaking, and writing skills. Reading provides its own satisfactions and discoveries: it enhances cultural awareness, while building vocabulary and focusing attention on structure and writing style. Today the Spanish-speaking world offers an endless variety of reading, both in print and online. media outlets are bilingual. media outlets are bilingual.

The ease with which learners can access reading in their target languages is unprecedented. The Internet, in particular, provides unlimited access to Spanish-language publications, classic literature, self-help features, blogs, forums, and government material. Many big-city newspapers in the United States now publish a Spanish edition, and Latin American and Spanish news outlets tend to have free online access. Public libraries and book distributors stock numerous Spanish titles. Your new literacy will open doors; youll be able to explore alternative angles on current events from the inside. In compiling the readings and excerpts for this book, we were overwhelmed with possibilities.

We settled on eight thematic units to cover a range that allows practice in a variety of topics and in several registers: everyday living, news items, popular science, first-person memoirs and interviews, storytelling and fiction, poetry and song, and discussion of movies and the arts. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Reading and Comprehension is useful for self-study, in tutoring, and in the classroom. Whatever approach is used, this book will help you reach your goal of independent reading in Spanish. Myrna Bell Rochester

The authors wish to extend warm thanks to Karen S. Young and Christopher Brown of McGraw-Hill Education for the original concept of Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Reading and Comprehension and for their clear-sighted attention in ushering it to completion. We also thank our production editors, who graciously and meticulously worked with us, from the big picture to the tiniest detail; their strong professional support is much appreciated.

A special note from Myrna to Deana: your friendship, insight, and direction through every stage of this project have been precious.

Each chapter of Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Reading and Comprehension is in six parts: Each reading selection is preceded by Estamos listos?