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Joining a Community of Readers : A Thematic Approach to Reading
ISBN: 9780321011817 | 0321011813
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 12/1/1997
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The first college reading text in a two-book series, Joining a Community of Readers uses the same approach and organization as its highly successful companion text, A Community of Readers. Using a holistic integrated approach to teach basic reading skills and study techniques, Joining a Community of Readers provides guided instruction and abundant opportunities to practice these skills, in the context of compelling real life issues.
| Each unit begins with Objectives/Skills to Learn and concludes with a Unit Review | |
| Each chapter contains Applying Your Skills and concludes with a Chapter Review | |
| Becoming A Successful Student | |
| Raising Issues: Setting Your Goals and Reaching Them | |
| Reading: I Can't Accept Not Trying | |
| Getting Started | |
| Reading: Positive Self Esteem | |
| Managing Your Time | ... MORE |
| Short and Long Term Goals | |
| Reading: Think Big, Benjamin Carson, M.D | |
| Preparing to Read | |
| Joining the Academic Community/Becoming an Active Reader | |
| Reading: A Reading Autobiography, Maxine Hong Kingston | |
| Reading is a Process: Pro | |
| Reading: The Essence of Active Reading | |
| Reading: Some Reflections on Reading | |
| Reading: Learning to Read (Exercise) | |
| Reading: Effective Speaking and Listening | |
| Reading: Journeys of Achievement and Vision | |
| Learning and Education/ Main Ideas | |
| Raising Issues: Learning to Learn | |
| Reading: Building a Better Brain | |
| Learning and Expectations/Topics and Main Ideas | |
| Topics vs. Main Ideas | |
| Stated Main Ideas | |
| Stated Main Ideas in Longer Paragraphs | |
| Stated Main Ideas in Short Essays | |
| Reading: Active | |
| Participation | |
| Reading: Broaden Your Perspective | |
| Reading: In Praise of the F Word | |
| Problems and Solutions/Unstated Main Ideas | |
| Identifying Unstated Main Ideas | |
| Reading: Participating in Small Groups | |
| Unstated Main Ideas in Longer Passages | |
| Reading: The Most Important Day | |
| Reading: A Third of The Nation Cannot Read These Words | |
| Reading: The Best Teacher In America | |
| Reading: Blowing Up the Tracks | |
| Reading: The Education of Bernice Belizare | |
| Protecting Our Environment/Supporting Details | |
| Raising Issues | |
| Reading: Exposure to Chemicals and Human Fertility | |
| Our Environment, Our Future/Main Ideas and Supporting Details | |
| Recognizing Supporting Points | |
| Recognizing Supporting Details | |
| Reading: Pesticides | |
| Reading: Toxins in Our Backyards | |
| Reading: Toxic Metals, Dioxins, and PCBs | |
| Protecting Our Environment/ Major and Minor Supporting Details | |
| Using an Outline | |
| Writing a Summary | |
| Reading: Changing the Balance of Life in The Water | |
| Reading: An Assessment of Risks | |
| Reading: How Species Become Extinct | |
| Reading: The Garbage Crisis | |
| Our Changing Families/ Patterns of Organization | |
| Raising Issues: What is a Family? | |
| Reading: My Husband's Nine Wives | |
| Families in History and Around the World/Examples | |
| Chronological Order, and Definitions | |
| Examples | |
| Chronological Order | |
| Definitions | |
| Patterns of Organization in Longer Passages | |
| Reading: Housework in Victorian America | |
| Reading: Marriage and Family: An Overview | |
| The Family in The Community/Comparison/Contrast and Cause/Effect.Comparing/Contrasting | |
| Reading: It Takes a Village | |
| Cause and Effect | |
| Reading: The Single-Parent Family | |
| Reading: Reform Should Make Room for Dad | |
| Reading: What Good Families Are Doing Right | |
| Our Community and Workplace/Inferences and Facts Versesopinions | |
| Raising Issues: Living in Communities | |
| Reading: Planting Seeds, Harvesting Scholarships | |
| Growing Up In Neighborhoods/Inferences | |
| Recognizing Inferences in Visual Images | |
| Inferences in Longer Passages | |
| Reading: Codes of Conduct | |
| Reading: Codes of Conduct (Cont) | |
| Reading: Beacon Schools: A Model For Community Development | |
| Work and the Community/ Facts vs. Opinions | |
| Recognizing Facts and Opinions | |
| Reading: How to Get an Internship | |
| Reading: The Power of Popular Music | |
| Reading: Gender Inequality: Employment | |
| Drawing | |
| Conclusions | |
| Reviewing Your Skills | |
| Reading: Firms Helping to Prepare Students for Working World | |
| Reading: Careers for the 21st Century | |
| Reading: Houses from Scratch | |
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