Skilled Reader, The (book alone), 2/E
D.J. Henry, Daytona State College

ISBN-10: 0205573185
ISBN-13: 9780205573189

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 656 pp
Published: 11/07/2007


The Skilled Reader combines solid skill instruction with a wealth of guided practice to develop the quintessential abilities students need to become skilled readers and critical thinkers.

 

The author integrates reading skills with the reading process (SQ3R) to produce more effective readers and lead students to discover the power and pleasure of reading.  Providing step-by-step reading instruction, a wide range of practice and test materials, and a rich selection of readings from textbooks and other sources, the author makes students responsible for their reading–improving their major reading skills while developing a system for reading.

  • The early (chapter 1) and text-wide integration of the reading process and reading skills shows students how to apply the skills they acquire into a process, allowing them to develop schema for any reading purpose. 
  • A wealth of practice opportunities — review and application sets, review tests, mastery tests, and supplementary lab manual exercises — enable students to both refine their reading skills and transfer their skills into reading activities.
  • High-interest reading selections that address issues relevant and interesting to students provide stimulation material for use with applying the skill(s) being refined. 
  • Combined skills tests in Part III provide fifteen skill-combing tests that allow students to apply all the skills they've learned to longer (multi-paragraph) reading passages.
  • The “Get Ready to Read” feature opens each chapter with pre-reading activities that guide students to review important concepts studied earlier and preview upcoming material.
  • The "Stop and Think" feature in each chapter allows the students to reflect on their achievements and assume responsibility for learning.
  • An accompanying lab manual provides a direct link to enrichment activities (fifty-five activities in all, plus two additional activities that focus on exit exams in Texas and Florida) creatively designed to reinforce and extend the chapter skills.
  • Numerous textbook excerpts and adaptations of textbooks from across the disciplines are presented so that students can gain experience in reading across the content areas.
  • The “Textbook Skills” section in each of the first eleven chapters is devoted to an aspect of the chapter topic as it relates to reading college textbooks, offering motivation and information on how to get the most out of textbooks.
  • The “Visual Vocabulary” feature assists visual learners with the development of their college vocabularies through the use of images.
  • Greater application opportunities are found in Part II and its ten additional, full-length readings with questions on all of the reading skills and Part IV and its coverage of college textbook reading, reading graphics, and reading for logic.

  • Twenty-five percent of the short and long reading selections and accompanying pedagogy in the book have been revised giving students livelier, more thought-provoking reading material.
  • A new appendix “ESL Reading Tips” offers reading strategies and activities to aid students who are in the process of acquiring English.
  • Revised “Visual Vocabulary” exercises in each chapter provide students with new opportunities to interact with photographs and graphics by completing captions and answering skill-based questions. 

    The Skilled Reader combines solid skill instruction with a wealth of guided practice to develop the quintessential abilities students need to become skilled readers and critical thinkers.

     

    The author integrates reading skills with the reading process (SQ3R) to produce more effective readers and lead students to discover the power and pleasure of reading.  Providing step-by-step reading instruction, a wide range of practice and test materials (including a separate lab manual), and a rich selection of readings from textbooks and other sources, the author makes students responsible for their reading and improves mastery of the major reading skills while teaching students to develop a system for reading.

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