Structured Reading (Book Alone), 7/E
Lynn Q. Troyka, City University of New York (CUNY)
Joe W. Thweatt

ISBN-10: 0131887262
ISBN-13: 9780131887268

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 456 pp
Published: 01/22/2008


For courses in Fundamentals of Reading and College Reading.

 

Structured Reading is grounded in the theory that students learn best from guided, hands-on experience with complete, not partial, reading selections. This text approaches students with detailed instruction in the separate skills areas that assure movement to college-level reading abilities, followed by extensive, repeated practice found in a variety of essays from books, magazines, and texts.

  •  Part One includes instruction in the separate college-level reading skills students need. Using an FAQ approach, it gives students down-to-earth advice–with lots of chances for practice–about how to improve reading speed, expand vocabulary, make useful predictions during reading, read “on, between, and beyond” the lines, find central themes and main ideas, identify major and minor details, make inferences, read critically, and respond to ideas. Each chapter also offers extensive skills-based exercises to prepare students for their hands-on experience with the thirty complete reading selections in Parts Two through Six.
  •  Stimulating balance of readings- Thirty reading selections, with six new for this edition, taken from books, magazines, newspapers, and textbooks in disciplines across the curriculum. The final mix represents male and female writers, as well as writers from a variety of ethnic groups.
  •  “Thinking: Getting Started” sections help students engage in predictive reading.
  •  Complete, authentic dictionary entries from Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition, accompany each reading selection to help students tackle the more difficult words in the piece. Appendix, “Guide to Dictionary Use,” helps students retrieve information from dictionary entries.

  • NEW! Expanded Chapter 5, “How Can I Improve My Vocabulary?” now includes instruction on strengthening vocabulary acquisition through structural analysis using roots, prefixes and suffixes.  Students not only have the tools to use contextual clues to understand new vocabulary, but the additional capability to use basic word parts to grasp meaning.  
  • NEW! Chapter on identifying the Author’s Strategies of audience, tone, and purpose.  As a critical reader, it is necessary to question and analyze an author’s craft and purpose in writing. In fact, many state mandated tests for preparatory reading courses require mastery of these elements of critical reading, and now Chapter 12 of the Seventh Edition addresses this need.   The exercises after the readings in Parts Two through Six reflect this additional focus.
  • NEW! Chapter on summary to support students’ ability to recall and comprehend what they read. Here, students are given the essentials on how to write and identify a summary that captures the essential message of a reading selection. 
  • NEW! Integrated into Chapter 9 a discussion on how to read visual images (pictures, illustrations, charts, and graphs) using the same reading strategies students learn to read text.  This is followed by Selection 30 in Part Six which provides a variety of visuals accompanied by exercises that evaluate a student’s ability to read the visual both literally and inferentially.
  • NEW! Expanded focus on “Critical Reading” which now includes exercises on “The Author’s Strategies,” and “Summary” in addition to “Fact vs. Opinion.” Structured sequence presented demands concentrated work in reading for literal meaning, for inferential meaning, and for critical thinking. This approach, used repeatedly, leads students to internalize successfully complex reading and thinking skills.
  • NEW- Instructor’s Edition (ISBN 0-13-047512-2) of our Seventh Edition of Structured Reading marks another milestone on behalf of teachers. For the first time, instructors are provided with a special edition that includes answers to all exercises right on the student text pages, along with a 45-page “Instructor’s Guide” bound at the back of the text.

Part 1  Skills for Reading                                                                                                               

Chapter 1 What Is Your Personal Reading History?                                                                             

Chapter 2 What Is the Reading Process?                                                                                           

Chapter 3 What Is the Role of “SQ3R” When Reading to Study?   

Chapter 4 What Is the Role of Speed During Reading?                                                                         

Chapter 5 How Can I Improve My Vocabulary?                                                                                    

Chapter 6 What Is Reading On, Between, and Beyond the Lines?                                                        

Chapter 7 What Are “Central Theme” and “Main Ideas”?                                                                       

Chapter 8 What Are “Major Details”?                                                                                                  

Chapter 9 How Can Maps, Outlines, and Visuals Help With Reading?                                                   

Chapter 10 What Are “Inferences”?                                                                                                    

Chapter 11 What Is “Critical Reading”?                                                                                               

Chapter 12  Critical Reading: What Are “The Author’s Strategies”?                                                       

Chapter 13 Critical Reading: What Is “Summary”?                                                                               

Chapter 14 What Is “Reader’s Response”?

                                                                                                                                                      

Answers to Activities in Part One                                                                                                       

 

Part 2  Thinking: Getting Started                                                                                                   

Selection 1 A Real Loss,by Fern Kupfer                                                                                            

Vocabulary list with dictionary entries    

Exercises:

1A    Vocabulary  

1B    Central Theme and Main Ideas    

1C    Major Details    

1D    Inferences    

1E    Critical Reading: Fact or Opinion    

1F     Critical Reading: The Author’s Strategies    

1G    Reader’s Process: Summarizing Your Reading    

1H    Reader’s Response: To Discuss or to Write About    

Selection 2 Tyranny of Weakness, by Eda LeShan                                                                             

*Selection 3 Don’t Sell Your Ambitions Short to “keep it real”, by Leonard Pitts, Jr.                                

Selection 4 Darkness at Noon, by Harold Krents                                                                                 

*Selection 5 To Catch a Thief, by Stephen Holt

*Selection 6 Seoul Searching, by Rick Reilly                                                                                      

 

 

Part 3  Thinking: Getting Started                                                                                                   

Selection 7 Summer, by Jonathan Schwartz                                                                                       

*Selection 8 Brains the Ultimate Sex Appeal, by Wendi C. Thomas                                                      

Selection 9 The Girl with the Large Eyes, by Julius Lester                                                                   

Selection 10 Flour Children, by Lexine Alpert                                                                                      

Selection 11 The Magic Words Are “Will You Help Me?” by Michael Ryan                                             

*Selection 12 Family and Friends Share Pain and Questions by Erin Sullivan

 

Part 4  Thinking: Getting Started                                                                                                   

Selection 13 How to Stay Alive, by Art Hoppe                                                                                     

Selection 14 Genes and Behavior: A Twin Legacy, by Constance Holden                                              

Selection 15 Escaping the Daily Grind for Life as a House Father, by Rick Greenberg                            

Selection 16  Forty Acres and a Holiday, by Lisa Jones                                                                      

Selection 17 My Mother’s Blue Bowl, by Alice Walker                                                                         

Selection 18 From In Search of Bernabé, by Graciela Limón

                                                                                                                                                      

Part 5  Thinking: Getting Started                                                                                                   

Selection 19 Restored to the Sea, by Robin Micheli                                                                            

Selection 20 Death Penalty Victims, by Bob Herbert                                                                           

Selection 21 Should a Wife Keep Her Name? by Norman Lobsenz                                                       

Selection 22 I Became Her Target, by Roger Wilkins                                                                           

Selection 23 Mute in an English-Only World, by Chang-rae Lee

Selection 24 Out of Their Element, by Bob Akin                                                                                 

 

Part 6  Thinking: Getting Started                                                                                                   

Selection 25 They Sniff Out Trouble, by Gail Buchalter                                                                        

Selection 26 She Made Her Dream Come True, by Michael Ryan                                                          

Selection 27 Long-Term Memory, by Joseph Calkin and Richard S. Perrotto (textbook extract)               

Selection 28 A Personal Stress Survival Guide, by Dianne Hales (textbook extract)                               

Selection 29 The Chaser, by John Collier                                                                                           

*Selection 30  Reading Charts, Graphs, Illustrations, and Pictures

                                                                                                                                                      

Appendix

Progress Charts                                                                                                                               

Guide to Dictionary Use                                                                                                                    

Credits                                                                                                                                            

Vocabulary Index                                                                                                                             

General Index

 

    For courses in Fundamentals of Reading and College Reading.

     

    Structured Reading is grounded in the theory that students learn best from guided, hands-on experience with complete, not partial, reading selections. This text approaches students with detailed instruction in the separate skills areas that assure movement to college-level reading abilities, followed by extensive, repeated practice found in a variety of essays from books, magazines, and texts.
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