Reader's Handbook, The: Reading Strategies for College and Everyday Life (book alone), 3/E
Brenda D. Smith, Georgia State University

ISBN-10: 0321365119
ISBN-13: 9780321365118

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 548 pp
Published: 06/22/2006


The Reader's Handbook is an ongoing reading reference tool that provides the skills, strategies, and techniques necessary for effective reading in college and everyday life.

 

The Reader’s Handbook  is a flexible and informative teaching tool to support group and individualized classroom instruction.  The easy-to-follow format offers many choices in meeting students needs. This new Third Edition, with the ten reading selections in Part 5 provides a comprehensive reading textbook for the skills needed for college success. By including personal and business reading, instructors can integrate the academic with the recreational and immediate. Instructors may want to begin the semester with the chapters in Part Four to demonstrate the impact reading has on daily life. Students can bring in a handful of their most recent solicitations for credit cards and music clubs, as well as examples of memos and newsletters from their jobs.

  • The Reader’s Handbook has been revised to now lend itself to reading levels from 6th grade to 12th+.
  • Unique comb-binding, tabbed format makes it easy for students to use The Reader's Handbook as a reference tool. To guide the reader, each chapter and section is referenced with colored tabs printed on the side of the page.
  • Both academic readings from actual freshman college texts and popular readings frommagazines and newspapers are included as models and as the basis for practice exercises.
  • Net Search activities encourage students to amplify textbook study through Internet research. Detailed instructions on how to use the Internet are presented in Chapter 20.
  • A book-specific Longman Website is also available: http://www.ablongman.com/smith.
  • Tips are offered on reading electronic material critically.
  • Reader’s Tip boxes give easy-to-access advice for readers, condensing strategies for improving reading into practical hints for quick reference. (A complete list of Reader’s Tips appears on the last page of the book and the inside back cover.).
  • Small-Group Exploration activities at the end of each chapter provide collaborative application and critical thinking opportunities.
  • Vocabulary development strategies and corresponding exercises are presented in a separate chapter early in the book and include instruction in using context clues, prefixes, suffixes, and roots.
  • For reading in the various college disciplines, tips are given to help students put the material in an intellectual framework (i.e., Think Like A Historian or Think Like A Philosopher).  Different perspectives for interpretation are explained in appropriate areas.
  • Newspaper organization is explained and magazines are differentiated according to purposes, with tips for consumer purchasing decisions.
  • Different types of contemporary fiction and nonfiction books are described, with tips on selecting books for pleasurable reading.
  • Charts, diagrams, and graphs are explained, and examples of each are provided in full color.
  • Tips for managing workplace and personal mail include suggestions for reading letters, memos, newsletters, bills, and advertisements.
  • The most common library reference works are described, with tips on how to find relevant research references.

  • A new organization divides the Third Edition into five parts for greater flexibility in meeting the needs of entering college students.
  • A new Part V contains ten longer reading selections from a variety of disciplines such as allied health, history, psychology, business, literature (short stories and essays) and a website.  The selections give students opportunities to apply skills presented earlier in the book and offers additional comprehension and vocabulary questions. 
  • Part 1 begins with a new chapter on Student Success to motivate and encourage a realistic assessment of  new challenges.  Internal and external distractions are identified and academic behaviors that lead to success are described.   
  • Additional practice exercises in core reading skills have been made available as a response to requests for more exercises. Activities have been added to help students improve their skills in finding the main idea; identifying major and minor details; recognizing patterns of organization; making inferences; using figurative language; drawing conclusions; identifying the author’s point of view, purpose, and tone; distinguishing between fact and opinion; and thinking critically.

I. READING STRATEGIES

1. Student Success

a. What makes a successful student?

b. What is concentration and how can it be improved?

c. What are successful academic behaviors?

2. Strategic Reading

a. What is Strategic Reading?

b. What is previewing?

c. How do you build meaning while reading?

d. Why recall after reading?

3. Vocabulary

a. How do you learn new words?

b. What clues help You Understand  new words?

c. What resources can help you with words?

d. What are Analogies? 

4. Main Idea

a. What is a main idea?

b. What is a topic?

c. What is a detail?

d. What are the strategies for stating main ideas?

5. Details

a. Can you recognize levels of importance of details?

b. Can you distinguish major and minor details?

6. Organizational Patterns

a. What are the patterns for organizing ideas?

b. How do transitional words signal

c. organizational patterns?

7. Inference 

a. What is an inference?

b. What is figurative language?

c. How do you recognize implied meaning?

d. How do you draw conclusions?

8. Point of View

a. What is the author’s point of view?

b. What is the reader’s point of view?

c. How do facts and opinions differ?

d. What is the author’s purpose?

e. What is the author’s tone?

9. Reading Graphics

a. What do graphics do?

b. How do you read graphic material and visual aids?

II. STUDY STRATEGIES

10. Critical Thinking 

a. What is critical thinking?

b. What are the steps in critical thinking?

11. Reading Rate

a. What is your reading rate?

b. What are the techniques for faster reading?

c. Why skim?

d. Why scan?

12. Techniques for Remembering Textbook Information

a. How do you organize college textbook reading?

b. What is annotating?

c. What is summary writing?

d. What is notetaking?

e. What is outlining?

f. What is mapping?

g. What are mnemonics?

III. READING IN THE DISCIPLINES

13. Reading in the Humanities 

a. What are the humanities?

b. How is history interpreted?

c. Are speech and communications more than just words?

d. What is English Composition?

14. Reading Literature and Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction  

a. What is literature?

b. What is an essay?

c. How is literature interpreted?

d. What are the different types of contemporary fiction? 

e. What are the different types of contemporary nonfiction?

f. What should you consider when selecting a book?

15. Reading in the Social Sciences 

a. What are the social sciences?

b. What is psychology?

c. What is sociology?

d. What is political science?

e. For further practice: Extended reading selection in psychology

16. Reading in the Life and Natural Sciences 

a. What are the life and natural sciences?

b. What is biology?

c. What are the allied health sciences?

d. What is environmental science?

e. For further practice: Extended reading selection in biology

17. Reading in Mathematics and Computer Sciences 

a. How can you get the most from your mathematics textbook?

b. How can you get the most from your computer science textbook?

c. For further practice: Extended reading selection in computer science

18. Reading in Business and Vocational Technology 

a. What are the goals of business Courses?

b. What are the Features of Business Textbooks? 

c. Why Choose a Vocational or Technical School?

d. What Are Electricity, Electronics, and Computer Technology?

e. What Is Automotive Technology?

f. For further practice: Extended reading selection in business

19. Reading Scholarly Reference Works  

a. How do you find relevant research references?

b. What is the format of scholarly articles?

c. What other reference works are available?

IV. READING IN EVERYDAY LIFE

20. Reading Print and Electronic Media 

a. How are newspapers organized and what are their elements?

b. How do you choose a newspaper?

c. How do you use online newspapers?

d. How do you differentiate magazines?

e. How do you navigate the World Wide Web?

f. How do you read electronic material critically?

g. How can you manage your email?

21. Workplace and Personal Reading 

a. How should you manage Your Workplace and Personal reading?

b. What are the different types of workplace reading?

c. How should you Respond to a letter?

d. What are the different parts of a bill?

e. How do you respond to direct mail advertisements?

V. READING SELECTIONS

Selection 1:  Allied Health

“Getting Fit” by Carolina Miranda, Alice Park, Jeffrey Kluger, Sarah Sturmon Dale, Jeanne McDowell, and Adam Pitluk in  Time Magazine, June 6, 2005

 

Selection 2:  History

“The ‘New Era’ of the 1920s” by John Garraty, The American Nation

 

Selection 3:  Essay

“The Dog Ate My Disk, and Other Tales of Woe” by Carolyn Foster Segal

 

Selection 4:  Short Story

 “Charles” by Shirley Jackson

 

Selection 5:  Essay

“The Company Man” by Ellen Goodman

 

Selection 6:  Business

 “The Millionaire Profile” by Thomas Stanley and William Danko, The Millionaire Next Door

 

Selection 7:  Short Story

“The Lion Roared”  by Virginia Eiseman

 

Selection 8:  Essay

“Pay Your Own Way!  (Then Thank Mom)”  by Audrey Rock-Richardson

 

Selection 9:  Psychology

“The Impact of College Attendance” by Samuel Wood, Ellen Green Wood, and Denise Boyd, The World of Psychology, 5th ed.

 

Selection 10:  Website

www.monster.com Website

Appendixes

A. Test Taking Strategies

B. Making Sense of Figurative Language and Idioms

C. Writing Effectively

Glossary

 

Credits

 

Index

    The Reader's Handbook is an ongoing reading reference tool that provides the skills, strategies, and techniques necessary for effective reading in college and everyday life.

     

    Flexible and informative, The Reader’s Handbook is a teaching tool to support group and individualized classroom instruction.  The easy-to-follow format offers many choices in meeting students needs. This new Third Edition, with the ten reading selections in Part 5 provides a comprehensive reading textbook for the skills needed for college success. By including personal and business reading, instructors can integrate the academic with the recreational and immediate. Instructors may want to begin the semester with the chapters in Part Four to demonstrate the impact reading has on daily life. Students can bring in a handful of their most recent solicitations for credit cards and music clubs, as well as examples of memos and newsletters from their jobs.

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