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Structured Reading, 6/E
Lynn Q. Troyka, City University of New York (CUNY)
Joe Wayne Thweatt

ISBN-10: 0130450766
ISBN-13: 9780130450760

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2003
Format: Paper; 423 pp
Published: 06/24/2002

Suggested retail price: $72.00
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For courses in Fundamentals of Reading and College Reading.

The highly regarded, exceptionally effective approach of Structured Reading is grounded in psycholinguistic theory and based on the principle that readers improve their skills not by reading about reading, but rather by guided, hands-on experience with reading. Throughout the text readers encounter essays from books, magazines, and texts. They use this material to develop their critical thinking, reading, and vocabulary skills.

New

  • NEW - Completely revised, thoroughly expanded Part I—On how to structure your reading.

    • Acquaints students with the reading process and gives them plenty of opportunity to practice individual reading skills before moving on to the 30 full-length readings in the text.

  • NEW - 5 new reading selections added to total 30 core reading selections—Includes essays on road rage; coping with language barriers; Texas' Juneteenth celebration; death penalty victims; and crossing the border into the United States.

    • Helps present students with an instructive, stimulating balance from books, magazines, newspapers, and textbooks in disciplines across the curriculum, and represents male and female writers from different ethnic groups.

Package
  • NEW - An Instructor's Edition —For the first time, Structured Reading comes with an Instructor's Edition, which includes a 45-page Instructor's Guide bound directly into the back of the text.

    • Supplies instructors with answers to all of the exercises, additional teaching strategies, readability levels for the readings, and tips on using Structured Reading in either a self-paced lab or a classroom setting.

  • NEW - A Companion Website www.prenhall.com/troyka—Provides even more reading practice for students.

    • Enables students to read additional excerpts from textbooks, and answer questions on vocabulary, central theme and main idea, major details, inferences, critical reading, and reader response.

Pedagogy
  • Structured exercises—For each reading, progress from vocabulary, central theme and main idea, to major details, inferences, fact/opinion, the writer's craft, and Reader Response.

    • Provides students with repeated practice in all reading skills—in reading for literal meaning, for inferentialmeaning, and for critical thinking.

  • “Thinking: Getting Started” sections—Opens each part with posters, photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and other visuals.

    • Prompts students to engage in predictive reading—the preparation of the mind for the topic to come.

  • Complete, authentic dictionary entries—Accompanies each reading selection in the vocabulary section of each chapter.

    • Gives students hands-on experience in finding definitions and developing dictionary skills.

  • Numerous “Reader Response” questions.

    • Encourages students to integrate writing into their reading and thinking processes.

  • Completely revised, thoroughly expanded Part I—On how to structure your reading.

    • Acquaints students with the reading process and gives them plenty of opportunity to practice individual reading skills before moving on to the 30 full-length readings in the text.

  • 5 new reading selections added to total 30 core reading selections—Includes essays on road rage; coping with language barriers; Texas' Juneteenth celebration; death penalty victims; and crossing the border into the United States.

    • Helps present students with an instructive, stimulating balance from books, magazines, newspapers, and textbooks in disciplines across the curriculum, and represents male and female writers from different ethnic groups.

  • An Instructor's Edition —For the first time, Structured Reading comes with an Instructor's Edition, which includes a 45-page Instructor's Guide bound directly into the back of the text.

    • Supplies instructors with answers to all of the exercises, additional teaching strategies, readability levels for the readings, and tips on using Structured Reading in either a self-paced lab or a classroom setting.

  • A Companion Website www.prenhall.com/troyka—Provides even more reading practice for students.

    • Enables students to read additional excerpts from textbooks, and answer questions on vocabulary, central theme and main idea, major details, inferences, critical reading, and reader response.

(NOTE: Each reading selection is followed by a Vocabulary list with dictionary entries, and exercises—Vocabulary; Central Theme and Main Ideas; Major Details; Inferences; Critical Reading: Fact or Opinion; Critical Reading: The Writer's Craft; and Reader Response.)

PART I.

Skills for Reading.

 1. What Is the Reading Process?

 2. What Is Your Personal Reading History?

 3. What Is the Role of Speed during Reading?

 4. How Do Eye Movements Affect Reading?

 5. How Can I Improve My Vocabulary?

 6. What's the Role of Prediction during Reading?

 7. What's the Role of “SQ3R” When Reading to Study?

 8. How Can Maps and Outlines Help with Reading?

 9. What's Reading “On, Between, and Beyond the Lines”?

10. What Are “Central Theme” and “Main Ideas”?

11. What are “Major Details”?

12. What Are “Inferences”?

13. What's “Critical Reading”?

14. What's “Reader Response”?

PART II.

Thinking: Getting Started.

A Real Loss, Fern Kupfer.The Death of a Farm, Amy Jo Keifer.Tyranny of Weakness Eda LeShan.Darkness at Noon, Harold Krents.My World Now, Anna Mae Halgrim Seaver.My Mother's Blue Bowl, Alice Walker.

PART III.

Thinking: Getting Started.

Summer, Jonathan Schwartz.The Girl with the Large Eyes, Julius Lester.You Are How You Eat, Enid Nemy.Flour Children, Lexine Apert.The Magic Words Are “Will You Help Me?” Michael Ryan.Mute in an English-Only World, Chang-rae Lee.

PART IV.

Thinking: Getting Started.

Genes and Behavior: A Twin Legacy, Constance Holden.Every Kid Needs Some Manual Arts, William Raspberry.Richard Cory, All Over Again, Roy Meador.Richard Cory, Edward Arlington Robinson.Escaping the Daily Grind for Life as a House Father, Rick Greenberg.Forty Acres and a Holiday, Lisa Jones.Out of Their Element, Bob Akin.

PART V.

Thinking: Getting Started.

Death Penalty Victims, Bob Herbert.Should a Wife Keep Her Name? Norman Lobsenz.Restored to the Sea, Robin Micheli.I Became Her Target, Roger Wilkins.She Made Her Dream Come True, Michael Ryan.From In Search of Bernabé, Graciela Limón.

PART VI.

Thinking: Getting Started.

How to Stay Alive, Art Hoppe.Houses to Save the Earth, Seth Shulman.Collegians Predisposed to Road Rage, Andrew J. Pulskamp.Long-Term Memory, Joseph Calkin and Richard S. Perroto.A Personal Stress Survival Guide, Dianne Hales.The Chaser, John Collier.Appendix.Vocabulary Index.General Index.

As always, Structured Reading offers a systematic, research-based approach for helping students improve their reading comprehension skills. Research in reading improvement consistently confirms that grade-point averages are raised significantly when instruction emphasizes the analytical and critical reading skills used in this book. Our approach in Structured Reading is grounded in psycholinguistic theory, based on the principle that readers improve not by reading about reading, but they learn best from guided, hands-on experience with the reading of complete selections.

NEW FEATURES TO THE SIXTH EDITION:
  • NEW—An Instructor's Edition. For the first time, Structured Reading comes with an Instructor's Edition, complete with exercise answers and teaching tips right in the text for instructors. The Instructor's Edition makes Structured Reading easier than ever to use.
  • NEW—A completely revised, thoroughly expanded Part I: How to Structure Your Reading. This section has been doubled in size to give students plenty of opportunity to practice individual reading skills before moving on to the 30 full-length readings in the text.
  • NEW—Five new reading selections, including essays on road rage, coping with language barriers, Texas' Juneteenth celebration, death penalty victims, and crossing the border into the United States.
  • NEW—A Companion Website™ www.prenhall.com/troyka
    This self-grading Website provides even more reading practice for students. Students can read additional excerpts from textbooks and answer questions on vocabulary, central theme and main idea, major details, inferences, critical reading, and reader response.

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