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Master Reader, The (Book Alone), 2/E
D.J. Henry, Daytona State College

ISBN-10: 0205617549
ISBN-13: 9780205617548

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 848 pp
Published: 10/01/2008


The Master Reader combines solid skill instruction with a wealth of guided practice to develop the quintessential abilities students need to become effective 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.



  • 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. 
    • The “Before Reading About” feature (formerly "Getting Ready to Read") opens each chapter with pre-reading activities that guide students to review important concepts studied earlier and preview upcoming material.
    • The "After Reading About" feature (formerly "Stop and Think") in each chapter allows the students to reflect on their achievements and assume responsibility for learning.
  • 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.
  • An accompanying lab manual (now separated from the text in the second edition) 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

ªNew readings provide thought-provoking selections that are relevant to student's lives.  Topics include relationships with family and friends, cultural encounters, maintaining a healthly lifestyle, dealing with coursework, financial planning, learning about politics, and many, many more.  Throughout the skill-based chapters in Part I, over twenty-five percent of the readings and accompanying pedagogy are new to this edition.

 

ªIn every chapter, there are now two review tests that provide multi-paragraph passages with combined skills questions based on all the skills taught up to and including that particular chapter.  These tests end with discussion and writing topics that are aimed at giving students the opportunity to develop their critical thinking skills.

 

ªCoverage of the SQ3R study method (study, question, read, recite, review) has been enhanced throughout the book to help students to learn to apply this effective strategy in all of their reading.  In Chapter 1, we have added graphics that illustrate SQ3R and the reading process.  Each remaining chapter now includes new prompts to remind students to activate these reading strategies.   

 

ªTextbook Skills have always been a focus of the book, but the new edition will help your student's to master their college courses with more Textbook Skills features than ever before.  New topics include "Using SQ3R to Master Textbook Reading," "Word Parts and Discipline-Specific Vocabulary," "Reading a Map," "Visual Vocabulary," and "Graphics, Fact and Opinion in Textbooks."  

 

ª An adjusted Table of Contents creates a clearer progression through the skills needed to identify main ideas and supporting details.  Chapter 3: Stated Main Ideas is now followed by Chapter 4: Implied Main Ideas and Implied Central Ideas, and Chapter 5: Supporting Details. 

 

ª Three of the high-interest reading selections in Part II are new to this edition, including Kurt Vonnegut’s essay “How to Write with Style,” a speech by Chief Seattle in response to an offer to purchase his land, and a passage from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. 

 

ªUpdated 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. 

 

ªChapter 1 now incorporates a Textbook Survey Form which will help students to best utilize this text’s (and all of their texts') helpful features from Day One of any course.   

 

ªThe new edition features 17 new Review Tests, 11 new Mastery Tests, and 3 new Combined Skills Tests.  

 

 

  

PART 1

1. A Reading System for Master Readers

Prior Knowledge

The Reading Process

    Before Reading: Survey and Question

    During Reading: Read and Recite

    After Reading: Review

Textbook Skills: Using SQ3R to Master Textbook Reading

Chapter Review

Applications

Review Tests

Mastery Tests

 

2. Vocabulary Skills

Before Reading About Vocabulary Skills

Words are Building Blocks

Context Clues: A SAGE Approach

    Synonyms

    Antonyms

    General Context

    Examples

Textbook Skills: Using a Glossary

Word Parts

    Roots

    Prefixes

    Suffixes

Textbook Skills: Visual Vocabulary

Chapter Review

Applications

Review Tests

After Reading About Vocabulary Skills

Mastery Tests

 

3. Stated Main Ideas
Before Reading About Stated Main Ideas

Traits of a Main Idea

    Identifying the Topic of a Paragraph

    Identifying a Topic Sentence

The Flow of Ideas and Placement of Topic Sentences

    Topic Sentence at the Beginning of a Paragraph

    Topic Sentence Within a Paragraph

    Topic Sentence at the End of a Paragraph

    Topic Sentence at the Beginning and the End of a Paragraph

The Central Idea and the Thesis Statement

Textbook Skills: Topics, Main Ideas, and Central Ideas in Textbooks

Chapter Review

Applications

Review Tests

After Reading About Stated Main Ideas

 

4. Implied Main Ideas and Implied Central Ideas

Before Reading About Implied Main Ideas and Implied Central Ideas

What is an Implied Main Idea?

Using Supporting Details and Thought Patterns to Find Implied Main Ideas

Finding the Implied Main Ideas of Paragraphs

Creating a Summary from the Supporting Details

The Implied Central Idea

Textbook Skills: How to Read a Map

A Final Note About Experience and Perspective

Chapter Review

Applications

Review Tests

After Reading about Implied Main Ideas and Implied Central Ideas

Mastery Tests

  

5. Supporting Details

Before Reading About Supporting Main Ideas

Questions for Locating Supporting Details

Major and Minor Details

Creating a Summary from Annotations

Textbook Skills: Chapter-end Questions in a Textbook

Chapter Review

Applications

Review Tests

After Reading About Stated Main Ideas

Mastery Tests

    
6. Outlines and Concept Maps

Before Reading About Outlines and Concept Maps

Outlines

Concept Maps

Textbook Skills: The Table of Contents in a Textbook

Chapter Review

Applications

Review Tests

After Reading About Outlines and Concept Maps

Mastery Tests


7. Transitions and Thought Patterns

Before Reading about Transitions and Thought Patterns
Transition Words: Relationships Within a Sentence

Thought Patterns: Relationships Between Sentences

    The Time Order Pattern

    The Space Order Pattern

    The Listing Pattern

    The Classification Pattern

Textbook Skills: Thought Patterns in Textbooks

A Final Note

Chapter Review

Applications

Review Tests

After Reading about Transitions and Thought Patterns

Mastery Tests


8. More Thought Patterns

Before Reading about More Thought Patterns

The Comparison-and-Contrast Pattern

    Comparision

    Contrast

    Comparison and Contrast

The Cause-and-Effect Pattern

The Generalization-and-Example Pattern

The Definition Pattern

Textbook Skills: Thought Patterns and Textbooks

Chapter Review

Applications

Review Tests

After Reading about More Thought Patterns

Mastery Tests

 

9. Fact and Opinion

Before Reading About Fact and Opinion

What Is the Difference Between Fact and Opinion?

Ask Questions to Identify Opinions

Note Biased Words to Identify Opinions

Note Qualifiers to Identify Opinions

Think Carefully about Supposed "Facts"

Read Critically: Evaluate Details as Fact or Opinion in Context

    Evaluate the Context of the Passage

    Evaluate the Context of the Author

    Evaluate the Context of the Source

Textbook Skills: Fact and Opinion in a Textbook Passage

Chapter Review

Applications

Review Tests

After Reading About Fact and Opinion

Mastery Tests

 

10. Tone and Purpose

Before Reading about Tone and Purpose

What are Tone and Purpose?

Understand How Tone is Established

Identify Subjective and Objective Tone Words

Discover the General Purpose in the Main Idea

Figure Out the Primary Purpose

Recognize Irony Used for Special Effects

Textbook Skills: Author's Purpose and Tone

Chapter Review

Applications

Review Tests

After Reading about Tone and Purpose

Mastery Tests

 

11. Inferences

Before Reading about Inferences

Inferences: Educated Guesses

What is a Valid Inference?

Making VALID Inferences and Avoiding Invalid Conclusions

    Step 1: Verify and Value the Facts

    Step 2: Assess Prior Knowledge

    Step 3: Learn from the Text

    Step 4: Investigate for Bias

    Step 5: Detect Contradiction

Inferences in Creative Expression

Textbook Skills: Inferences and Visual Aids

Chapter Review

Applications

Review Tests

Before Reading about Inferences

Mastery Tests

 

12. The Basics of Argument
Before Reading about the Basics of Argument

What is an Argument?

Step 1. Identify the Author's Claim and Supports

Step 2. Decide If the Supports Are Relevant

Step 3. Decide If the Supports Are Adequate

Step 4: Check the Argument for Bias

Textbook Skills: The Logic of Arguments

Chapter Review

Applications

Review Tests

After Reading about the Basics of Argument

Mastery Tests

 

13. Advanced Argument: Persuasive Techniques

Before Reading About Advanced Argument

Biased Arguments

    What is a Fallacy in Logical Thought?

    What is Propaganda?

Irrelevant Arguments: Fallacies

    Personal Attack

    Straw Man

    Begging the Question

Irrelevant Arguments: Propaganda Techniques

    Name-Calling

    Testimonials

    Bandwagon

    Plain Folks

Inadequate Arguments: Fallacies

    Either-Or

    False Comparison

    False Cause

Inadequate Arguments: Propaganda Techniques

    Card Stacking

    Transfer

    Glittering Generalities

Textbook Skills: Examining Biased Arguments

Chapter Review

Applications

After Reading about Advanced Argument

Mastery Tests

 


PART 2

Additional Readings

The Connection Between Reading and Writing

    Step 1: Prewrite

    Step 2: Organize Your Ideas

    Step 3: Write

    Step 4: Edit and Revise

    Annotating a Text

    Writing a Summary

1. "Do Not Iron Clothes on Body" by George F. Will

2. "You Just Don't Understand" by Deborah Tannen

3. "The Four Reasons Why Good Communication is So Important" by Suzette Haden Elgin

4. "Binge Drinking, A Campus Killer" by Sabrina Rubin Erdely

5. "I Have a Dream" Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.

6. "The Education of an American" by Arnold Schwarzenegger

7. "How to Write with Style" by Kurt Vonnegut

8. From "It Takes a Village" by Hillary Rodham Clinton

9. From "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

10. Cheif Seattle's Speech in 1854 as recounted by Henry A. Smith (1887)

PART 3

Combined-Skills Tests

Credits

Index

    The Master Reader combines solid skill instruction with a wealth of guided practice to develop the quintessential abilities students need to become effective 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.


  • 0205728081Master Reader, The (with MyReadingLab Student Access Code Card), 2/E
    Henry
    © 2009 | Longman | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 848 pages | Estimated Availability: 10/01/2008
    ISBN-10: 0205728081 | ISBN-13: 9780205728084
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For Advanced Reading (10-12+ grade level)


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