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The Skilled Reader, Updated Edition, 1/e

BASIC APPROACH

(Note: This textbook was published by our college division for use by students at post-secondary institutions whose reading skills are below the level needed to succeed in college. Please review this text carefully to ensure appropriateness of content for your students.)

The first in a three book series, The Skilled Reader, Updated Edition, continues to offer students step-by-step reading instruction, a wide range of practice and test materials, and a rich selection of readings from textbooks and other sources for those reading at the 6–9th grade level.

The Updated Edition offers extensive coverage of key concepts such as main ideas, supporting details, thought patterns, and the reading process. Each chapter helps students frame the reading skill it covers with practice toward developing a system for reading.

Numerous practices, review and application sets, review tests, and mastery tests in each chapter provide teachers and students with extensive assessment materials. Each chapter concludes with a chapter summary, three or four Applications, six Review Tests, and eight Mastery Tests. All practice materials are formatted for easy grading.

Ten additional readings in Part II (from both textbook and non-textbook sources) are accompanied by an extensive apparatus, with questions on all of the reading skills (main idea, patterns of organization, vocabulary, supporting details, inferences, and so on) for each individual reading. Fifteen additional combined-skills tests are provided in Part III. Part IV includes an appendix of word parts, along with an introduction to critical reading: purpose and tone, fact and opinion, figurative language, and reading graphic material.

A supplementary Lab Manual ends the book. Each of the book's lab activities has a printed component (in the textbook) and an online component (on the Companion Web site). Instructors can choose to use only the print component or both the print and online components.

FEATURES

• High-interest readings. Readings address issues relevant and interesting to students.
• Textbook excerpts. Numerous readings are excerpts and adaptations of textbooks from across the disciplines, so that students can gain experience in reading across the content areas. All textbook excerpts are marked with a "Textbook Skills" icon.
• "Textbook Skills" sections in each chapter. One section of each of the first eleven chapters is devoted to an aspect of the chapter topic as it relates to reading college textbooks. These lessons offer students motivation and information on how to get the most out of their textbooks.
• "Visual Vocabulary." More than fifty photographs and drawings are accompanied by captions for the student to complete as a quick test of vocabulary development and reading comprehension. The Visual Vocabulary feature was developed to help visual learners use images to develop their college vocabularies.
• Lab Manual. A built-in Lab Manual at book's end provides a direct link to the book's Web site. For each Part I chapter, five enrichment activities are provided-fifty-five activities in all, plus two additional activities that focus on exit exams in Texas and Florida. Each activity has two sections: a printed component in the textbook, and an online component on the Web site (at http://www.ablongman.com/henry). Marginal cross-references throughout Chapters 1–11 show which lab activity supplements the specific section(s) of a chapter. All Lab Manual activities are creatively designed to reinforce and extend the chapter skills.
• Combined skills tests. Part III provides fifteen combined-skills tests that allow students to apply all the skills they've learned to longer (multi-paragraph) reading passages. Part II provides ten additional, full-length readings with questions on all of the reading skills (vocabulary, main idea, supporting details, patterns of organization, inference, critical reading, and so on).
• Additional reading enrichment. Part IV provides an overview of college textbook reading, graphics, and reading for logic.
• Extensive book-specific supplementary package. An annotated instructor's edition provides answers to all questions, exercises, and tests. The Instructor's Manual provides teaching tips, handouts, quizzes, and transparency masters for each chapter of The Effective Reader. The Test Bank (available both in printed format and on a Test-Gen EQ CD-ROM) provides four pre-formatted tests for each chapter, plus a midterm and final examination. PowerPoint Presentations for each chapter can be downloaded from the "Instructor Resources" section of the Henry Web site.
• No more supplementing! Instructors often complain that they have to photocopy additional materials for their students because the textbook doesn't provide enough practice. With The Effective Reader, no supplementing is necessary! This textbook provides more practice, more review tests, and more pre-formatted mastery tests than any other book on the market.

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