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Essential Reading Skills (with MyReadingLab), 3/E
Kathleen T. McWhorter, Niagara County Community College

ISBN-10: 020554004X
ISBN-13: 9780205540044

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper Package; 512 pp
Published: 10/09/2006

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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 6th-to-9th 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.


 

  • Emphasis on the essential college reading skills–Equipping students with instruction for the most important reading skills for college success, Essential Reading Skills focuses on active reading and thinking, vocabulary development, literal and critical comprehension, and organizational emphasis.
  • Four-color, visually appealing design–To facilitate visual learning, photographs, diagrams, and charts are used to clarify relationships and demonstrate paragraph organization.
  • Extensive practice with exercises, review tests, and mastery tests–Practice exercises and tests provide skill application, repetition, and observable, measurable evidence.
  • Additional readings for more practice–Ten additional readings at the end of the text provide students with more skill-application practice and instructors with flexibility in choosing readings appropriate to the students' needs.
  • Vocabulary enrichment exercises–To build a college-level vocabulary and prepare students for words they will frequently encounter, vocabulary development exercises are found at the end of every skill chapter.
  • Test-taking tips in every chapter–Help students prepare for and to pass key exit exams.
  • A writing component after each mastery test–Complementing the underpinning of metacognition, three questions for writing and three questions for discussion include specific prompts about the length or features of the writing.

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  • A NEW chapter on building vocabulary using a dictionary—Students are given instruction on how to use a dictionary to pronounce words, tips on word mapping, and additional exercises to apply the skills.
  • A NEW ESL Appendix—To help non-native English speakers overcome the more common impediments, this new appendix include coverage of spelling, homonyms, punctuation, and confusing words.
  • NEW “The Textbook Challenge” exercises—Added to every chapter, these two-part exercises present immediate skill application to textbook material. Part one has students applying skills they have learned to the textbook excerpts in Resource Guide A, and part two asks them to apply the skills to texts they are using for other courses.
  • NEW “Studying Words” exercises—These exercises found at the end of each reading in the Mastery Test 3 section strengthen students’ word comprehension.  A pronunciation question is included with each exercise.
  • Many of the readings are new to bring the third edition up-to-date with students' interests.

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    Chapter Reading Selections

     

    Preface

     

    1. Reading Actively

    Starting with a Positive Attitude

    Improve Your Surroundings

    Pay Attention

    Previewing Before You Read

    How to Preview

    Demonstration of Previewing

    Guide Questions

    Putting Your Positive Attitude to Work

    The Textbook Challenge

    What Have You Learned?

    What Vocabulary Have You Learned?

    Test-Taking Tip #1: Active Test-Taking

    Reading Selection: To Love and to Cherish by Michelle Kearns (Mastery Test 1-3)

    2. Using Your Dictionary

    Buying a Dictionary

    Using a Dictionary

    Abbreviations

    Word Pronunciation

    Etymology

    Multiple Meanings

    Spelling

    Idioms

    Other Aids

    Pronouncing Unfamiliar Words

    Using Word Mapping to Expand Your Vocabulary

    The Textbook Challenge

    What Have You Learned?

    What Vocabulary Have You Learned?

    Test-Taking Tip #2: Taking Vocabulary Tests

    Reading Selection: We Don’t Have AIDS, But We Suffer, Too by Kerrel McKay (Mastery Test 1-3)

    3. Building Vocabulary: Using Context Clues

    What Is Context?

    Types of Context Clues

    Definition Clues

    Synonym Clues

    Example Clues

    Contrast Clues

    Inference Clues

    Using All of the Context Clues

    The Textbook Challenge

    What Have You Learned?

    Test-Taking Tip #3: Answering Vocabulary Questions

    Reading Selection: Online Dating Sites Aren’t Holding People’s Hearts by Randy Dotinga (Mastery Test 3-3)

    4. Building Vocabulary: Using Word Parts

    What Are Word Parts?

    Prefixes

    Roots

    Suffixes

    Using Word Parts

    The Textbook Challenge

    What Have You Learned?

    Test-Taking Tip #4: Using Word Parts

    Reading Selection: Saved by the Kindness of a Virtual Stranger by Mark Zelermyer (Mastery Test 3-3)

    5. Locating Main Ideas

    What Is a Main Idea?

    Understanding General versus Specific Ideas

    Identifying the Topic

    Finding the Main Idea

    Tips for Finding the Main Idea

    Tips for Locating the Topic Sentence

    Learning More about Paragraphs

    The Textbook Challenge

    What Have You Learned?

    What Vocabulary Have You Learned?

    Test-Taking Tip #5: Questions on the Topic and Main Idea

    Reading Selection: Don’t Ask by Deborah Tannen (Mastery Test 4-3)

    6. Identifying Supporting Details and Transitions

    What Are Supporting Details?

    What Are Transitions?

    Putting It All Together

    The Textbook Challenge

    What Have You Learned?

    What Vocabulary Have You Learned?

    Test-Taking Tip #6: Answering Detail Questions

    Reading Selection: How to Ace a Job Interview by Richard Koonce (Mastery Test 5-3)

    7. Understanding Implied Main Ideas

    What Does Implied Mean?

    Remembering the Difference between General and Specific Ideas

    How to Find Implied Main Ideas in Paragraphs

    Working with Paragraphs

    The Textbook Challenge

    What Have You Learned?

    What Vocabulary Have You Learned?

    Test-Taking Tip #7: Answering Questions about Implied Main Ideas

    Reading Selection: Primary Colors by Kim McLarin (Mastery Test 6-3)

    8. Keeping Track of Information

    Why Keep Track of Information?

    Highlighting and Marking

    Outlining

    Mapping

    Summarizing

    Good Reasons to Keep Track of Information

    The Textbook Challenge

    What Have You Learned?

    What Vocabulary Have You Learned?

    Test-Taking Tip #8: Using Highlighting and Summarizing

    Reading Selection: Body Piercing and Tattooing by Rebecca Donatelle (Mastery Test 7-3)

    9. Recognizing the Basic Patterns of Organization

    What Are Patterns of Organization?

    Example

    Definition

    Combining Definition and Example

    Chronological Order and Process

    Listing

    Combining Patterns of Organization

    The Textbook Challenge

    What Have You Learned?

    What Vocabulary Have You Learned?

    Test-Taking Tip #9: Answering Questions about Patterns

    Reading Selection: Right Place, Wrong Face by Alton Fitzgerald White (Mastery Test 8-3)

    10. Recognizing Comparison/Contrast and Cause/Effect Patterns

    Comparison/Contrast Patterns

    Comparison

    Contrast

    Using Both Comparison and Contrast

    Cause/Effect Patterns

    Moving beyond Patterns

    The Textbook Challenge

    What Have You Learned?

    What Vocabulary Have You Learned?

    Test-Taking Tip #10: Answering Questions about Comparison/Contrast and Cause/Effect

    Reading Selection: When Mommy Goes Off to Fight a War by Peter Madsen (Mastery Test 9-3)

    11. Reading and Thinking Critically

    What Is Inference?

    How to Make Inferences

    Understanding a Writer’s Purpose

    Style

    Intended Audience

    Language: Denotation and Connotation

    Identifying Tone

    Distinguishing Fact and Opinion

    Facts

    Opinions

    Judgment Words

    Understanding More of What You Read

    The Textbook Challenge

    What Have You Learned?

    What Vocabulary Have You Learned?

    Test-Taking Tip #11: Critical Reading Questions

    Reading Selection: The Beautiful Laughing Sisters by Mary Pipher (Mastery Test 10-3)

    Student Resource Guide A

    Introduction to College Textbook Reading

    Textbook Excerpt 1: Civil Liberties and the Right to Privacy

    Textbook Excerpt 2: Food Safety: A Growing Concern

    Textbook Excerpt 3: Legible Clothing

    Student Resource Guide B

    Test-Taking strategies: A Review

    Student Resource Guide C

    A Guide for ESL Readers

    Multicultural Reader

    1. The Most Hateful Words, Amy Tan

    2. Seoul Searching, Rick Reilly

    3. Coming into My Own, Ben Carson, M.D.

    4. Living Life to the Fullest, Maya Angelou

    5. Samerican Indian Mascots Should Go, Rich Heffern

    6. Hispanic USA: The Conveyor-Belt Ladies, Rose del Castillo Guilbault

    7. I Have Had To Learn To Live With Peace, Alephonsion

    Credits

     

    Index

      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 6th-to-9th 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.

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

    For Introductory Reading (6-9 grade level)


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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 6th-to-9th 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.

    • 020554004XEssential Reading Skills (with MyReadingLab), 3/E
      McWhorter
      © 2007 | Longman | Paper Package; 512 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 020554004X | ISBN-13: 9780205540044
      Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

     

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