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Guide to College Reading

ISBN: 9780205604975 | 0205604978

Edition: 9th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: PEARSON
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009

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Guide to College Reading is intended to equip students with the skills they need to handle the diverse reading demands of college courses and guide them in becoming active learners and critical thinkers. Designed for use in the first level reading course, Guide to College Reading focuses on the key areas of reading comprehension, vocabulary improvement, and textbook reading while addressing the learning characteristics, attitudes, and motivational levels of reading students.

New Contemporary Issues Minireader.Comprising Part Six of the book,the minireader has been revised to include a new section on how to read about controversial issues, and offers six new readings on topics of current interest: smokerrs"s rights, cell phones and driving safety, campus violence, employee rights, media images of women, and global warming. Each reading begins with prereading questions and a vocabulary preview and is followed by a variety of questions, vocabulary exercises, and writing assignments designed to increase understanding, ... MOREpromote critical thinking and provide practice with and application of skills. New section on word mapping. New to Chapter 4, this section teaches students a visual strategy for expanding their vocabularies. Word mapping, which requires students to use a dictionary to analyze a wordrs"s parts and discover alternative meanings and synonyms, as well as to write two sentences using the word, encourages intensive word study. It is particularly helpful for visual learners. New section on online dictionary usage. Because more students are using online dictionaries, a new section including sample Web pages has been added to Chapter 4. It explains the benefits of these online resources, which can be used to find the definitions of words while reading, to identify correct usage and spelling when writing, and to build and expand general vocabulary. New vocabulary exercises.Each end-of-chapter reading (Mastery Test 4) now features a new exercise, Studying Words, that provides students with practice using a dictionary to find the etymology, correct pronunciation, word parts, and multiple meanings of specific words. New readings.Four new end-of-chapter readings (Mastery Test 4) have been added on the topics of illegal immigration, problems faced by families of soldiers in Iraq, animal cloning of human body parts, and classroom stereotyping. A new contemporary short story by Becky Birtha, "Route 23: Chestnut Hill to 23 rd, " has been added to the Fiction Minireader. Technology Advantage.MyReadingLab is the first and only online learning system to diagnose both students'reading skills and reading levels. This remarkable program utilizes diagnostic testing, personalized practice, and gradebook reports to allow instructors to measure student performance and help students gain control over their reading. Specifically created for developmental students, MyReadingLab is a website that provides diagnostics, practice, tests, and reporting on studentreading skillsand studentreading levels. Studentreading skillsare improved through a mastery-based format of exercises and tests. Exercises include objective-based questions, open-ended questions, short answer questions, combined skills exercises and more. Studentreading levelis assessed through a Lexile framework (developed by Metametricstrade;, an educational measurement expert). Once diagnosed, students are assigned a Lexile number, which indicates their reading comprehension skills, and throughout the program, the Lexile number rises as the students'reading level improves. The result of thisskills and level combinationis a personalized student study plan to address individual needs and quantifiable data that measures individual student reading level advancement.

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