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Exercise Your College Reading Skills: Developing More Powerful Comprehension

Janet Elder, Richland College

Feature Summary

Practice: Each chapter offers a brief overview and examples of a skill, followed by three sets of progressively challenging exercises from textbooks and other college-appropriate material. The practice sets provide students with a minimum of 30 items through which to exercise their reading skills. Three separate chapters are devoted to the recursive practice of all skills taught to that point.
Value: For text-based reading courses, Exercise Your College Reading Skills provides an inexpensive two-color text with numerous photos, graphics, and cartoons. This also makes it attractive as a supplemental text in literature-, news magazine-, or newspaper-based courses.
Flexibility:Exercise Your College Reading Skills can be adapted easily for use in courses with readers at different levels and courses that are informal or self-paced, or for students who may need additional out-of-class work. The first exercise set consists of simpler material and multiple-choice items. The second and third sets feature open-ended questions, with the third set having more challenging material.
Compelling Selections: The excerpts and selections have been drawn from a broad cross-section of current, widely-used, well-written content area textbooks. These are enhanced by fiction and non-fiction literary material by writers such as Tillie Olsen, Camus, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Annie Dillard, Winston Churchill, Chief Joseph, Voltaire, and the poets Robert Burns, Emily Dickinson, and Billy Collins.
Experience: The text's author, Janet Elder, is also co-author (with Joe Cortina) of the successful Opening Doors: Understanding College Reading, Third Edition; New Worlds; and Comprehending College Textbooks: Steps to Understanding and Remembering What You Read, Third Edition.

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