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Improving Reading Skills: Contemporary Readings for College Students, 6/e

Deanne Spears, City College of San Francisco

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The Practice Selection: A detailed walk-through of the first reading, Tips for Women: How to Have a Relationship with a Guy by Dave Barry, introduces students to the support material they will encounter in the remainder of the text. Each element of the pedagogy is described and its value to the student reader is explained.
Progressive Reading Level: Selections are chosen to move students from the most basic level into college reading. To encourage and engage reluctant readers, selections address topics of broad interest and appeal.
Eleven Central Skills: The activities and selections are chosen to develop these essential skills: Determining the Main Idea and the Author's Purpose, Comprehending the Main Idea, Distinguishing between Main Idea and Supporting Detail, Recognizing Supporting Details, Interpreting Meaning, Making Inferences, Drawing Conclusions, Distinguishing between Fact and Opinion, Analyzing Structure, Annotating Text, Writing Paraphrases and Summaries.
Consistent and Engaging Exercises: Each selection is prefaced by an introduction to the author and the topic and by a Vocabulary Preview to prepare the reader for new terms. The reading is followed by six types of exercises that hone core reading skills: Determining Main Idea and Purpose; Comprehending Main Ideas; Interpreting Meaning; Understanding Vocabulary; Using Vocabulary; and Topics for Writing and Discussion.

Spears: Developing Critical Reading Skills

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