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Essential Reading Skills, 2/E
Kathleen T. McWhorter, Niagara County Community College

ISBN-10: 0321142527
ISBN-13: 9780321142528

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 480 pp
Published: 06/23/2004

This item has been replaced by Essential Reading Skills (with MyReadingLab Student Access Code Card), 3/E.

Essential Reading Skills is designed to improve students' reading and thinking skills through concise skill instruction, extensive guided practice, skill application, assessment, and feedback.

The text is organized into ten chapters, each focusing on a specific reading and thinking skill. Each chapter includes skill instruction, practice exercises, quizzes, and mastery tests. Because the text is brief and concise, students focus on the most essential college reading skills. Essential Reading Skills, the lower-level text in a two-book series, is intended for the 6th to 8th grade reading level.

Emphasis on essential skills. The text contains only the most important reading skills for college success: active reading and thinking, vocabulary development, literal and critical comprehension, and organizational emphasis.

Four-color, visually appealing design. Increasingly, college students are becoming visual learners, and visual literacy is critical to success in today's world. To facilitate visula learning photographs, diagrams, and charts clarify relationships and demonstrate paragraph organization.

Many practice exercises, review tests and mastery tests. Practice tests provide students with observable, measurable evidence that they are learning and improving their skills. Students are more prepared for an assessment or exit test the instructor assigns later.

Additional readings. Ten additional readings at the end of the text provide instructors with flexibility in choosing readings appropriate to the students' needs and interests.

Expanded content in key areas: fact and opinion, and tone and tone words in Chapter 10; signal words for synonym context clues in Chapter 2; more examples on finding the topic in Chapter 4; and more on transitions in Chapter 5.

New test-taking tips in every chapter are designed to help students prepare for and to pass key exit exams.

New vocabulary enrichment exercise is found at the end of every skill chapter.

A new writing component after each Mastery Test 3. Three questions for writing and three questions for discussion include specific prompts about the length or features of the writing.

A new focusing question for pre-reading, found in the Mastery Test 3 sections and Additional Reading Selections, gives students a focusing device with which to apply their existing knowledge or their previewing technique before delving into the reading.

A new topic, “Introduction to College Textbook Reading,” is located in the Student Resource Guide section.

The Answer key is now located in the Annotated Instructor's Edition.

1. Read Actively.

Starting With a Positive Attitude.

Previewing Before You Read.

Guide Questions.

Putting Your Positive Attitude to Work.

Reading Selection (Mastery Test 1-3) “To Love and Cherish.”

2. Build Vocabulary: Using Words in Context.

What Is Context?

Types of Context Clues.

Using All of the Context Clues.

Reading Selection (Mastery Test 2-3) “Climbing Mt. Everest.”

3. Build Vocabulary: Using Word Parts.

What are Word Parts?

Prefixes.

Roots.

Suffixes.

Using Word Parts.

Reading Selection (Mastery Test 3-3) “The Dolphin Affair.”

4. Locate Main Ideas.

What Is a Main Idea?

Understand General versus Specific Ideas.

Identify the Topic.

Find the Main Idea.

Learning More About Paragraphs.

Reading Selection (Mastery Test 4-3) “Don't Ask.”

5. Identify Supporting Details and Transitions.

What ARe Supporting Details?

Recognizing Transitions.

Types Putting It All Together.

Reading Selection (Mastery Test 5-3) “How to Ace a Job Interview.”

6. Understand Implied Main Ideas.

What Does Implied Mean?

Remembering General versus Specific Ideas.

How to find Implied Main Ideas in Paragraphs.

Working with Paragraphs.

Reading Selection (Mastery Test 6-3) “Primary Colors.”

7. Keeping Track of Information.

Why Keep Track of Information?

Good Reasons to Keep Track of Information.

What Vocabulary Have You Learned?

Reading Selection (Mastery Test 7-3) “Body Piercing and Tattooing.”

8. Recognize the Basic Patterns of Organization.

What Are Patterns of Organization?

Combining Patterns of Organization.

Reading Selection (Mastery Test 8-3) “Right Place, Wrong Face.”

9. Recognizing Comparison/Contrast and Cause/Effect.

Comparison and Contrast Patterns.

Cause and Effect Patterns.

Mixed Moving Beyond Patterns.

Reading Selection (Mastery Test 9-3) “Why Do Women Live Longer?”

10. Reading and Thinking Critically.

What Is Inference?

Understanding a Writer’s Purpose.

Identifying Tone.

Distinguishing Fact and Opinion.

Student Resource Guide.

A: Introduction to College Textbook Reading.

B: Understanding Sentences: A Review.

C: Using Your Dictionary: A Review.

D: Test-taking Strategies: A Review.

TEN ADDITIONAL READINGS.

Reading One: “Dreams for Sale” by Kenneth R. Weiss.

Reading Two: “Seoul Searching” by Rick Reilly.

Reading Three: “Coming Into My Own” by Ben Carson, M.D.

Reading Four: “Living Life to the Fullest” by Maya Angelou.

Reading Five: “A Guard's First Night on the Job” by William Recktenwald.

Reading Six: “She Said Yes! She Said Yes! She Said Yes!” by Michael Kernan.

Reading Seven: “Hispanic USA: The Conveyor-Belt Ladies” by Rose del Castillo Guilbault.

Reading Eight: “A Day on Wheels” by Cheryl A. Davis.

Reading Nine: “Blue Highways” by William Least Heat Moon.

Credits.

Index.

Introductory Reading (6-9 grade level) (Developmental English)

Essential Reading Skills (book alone), 3/E
McWhorter
©2007 | Longman | Paper; 512 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321429931 | ISBN-13: 9780321429933
Brief Description

Essential Reading Skills, with its acute focus on what is quintessential to reading success, improves students' reading ability through concise instruction, guided practice, and skill application.

The lower-level text in a two-book series, Essential Reading Skills is intended for the 6^th-to-9^th grade reading levels. Each of the eleven chapters focuses on a specific reading and thinking skill, and contains exercises that get students applying the learned skill to textbooks and ends with a vocabulary enrichment exercise.
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©2007 | Longman | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 512 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205728065 | ISBN-13: 9780205728060
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Essential Reading Skills, with its acute focus on what is quintessential to reading success, improves students' reading ability through concise instruction, guided practice, and skill application.

The lower-level text in a two-book series, Essential Reading Skills is intended for the 6^th-to-9^th grade reading levels. Each of the eleven chapters focuses on a specific reading and thinking skill, and contains exercises that get students applying the learned skill to textbooks and ends with a vocabulary enrichment exercise.

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©2005 | Longman | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321279824 | ISBN-13: 9780321279828
URL: http://www.ablongman.com/mcwhorteressential2e

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