Active Reading Skills
Second Edition
Kathleen T. McWhorter

The higher of a two-book series that begins with Essential Reading Skills, Third Edition, Active Reading Skills, Second Edition, teaches the essential reading and thinking skills needed for active reading by using concise instruction, guided practice, extensive application, and feedback.

In addition to the hallmark features of Active Reading Skills such as the chapter-opening “Think About It Visuals” and the “What Vocabulary Have You Learned?” exercises, the second edition features:

• New Current Issues Reader: A new Current Issues Reader (Part III) contains new readings, including three textbook excerpts focused on the theme of current issues.
• New Textbook Challenge Exercises. These specially marked exercises prompt students to apply the information in the chapter to a textbook they are simultaneously using for a concurrent course.
• Additional Resource Guide. Available online, Student Resource Guide: Real World Reading Strategies focuses on strategies students can use to locate information quickly in nontextbook reading material such as newspapers and magazines.

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Powered by two reading practice engines, the new version of MyReadingLab provides diagnostics, practice, tests, and reporting on reading skills and reading levels. Benefits of MyReadingLab include:

• Reading skill practice and assessment with Reading Road Trip, the best-selling reading skill tutorial. Reading Road Trip has been thoroughly revised and redesigned with stronger exercises, a new mastery-based format, open-ended questions, and the instructor’s ability to reorganize the arrangement of topics.
• Reading-level practice and assessment using the newly added Lexile system developed by MetaMetrics. Students’ reading ability (Lexile measure) is initially determined via a diagnostic, and, using a sophisticated framework of modified Cloze-tests and scoring algorithms, is reassessed as students work through reading sets. Both students and instructors are thus given quantifiable data to measure reading-level advancement.
• Personalized study plans to guide students to reading success. Based on results of the diagnostic pre-test and organization of topics established by the instructor, a study plan guides students to better reading.
• Comprehensive assessment of coursework and progress. Detailed grade book reports enable students to monitor their progress and allow instructors to easily monitor progress at the individual or class level.

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