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Active Reading Skills, 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.)

Active Reading Skills is designed to improve students' reading and thinking skills through concise skill instruction, extensive guided practice, skill application, assessment, and feedback.

This mid-level book is intended for reading courses at the 9th to 12th grade level. (Essential Reading Skills, the lower-level book in the series, is intended for the 6th to 8th grade level.) The text is organized into twelve chapters, each focusing on a specific reading and thinking skill. Each chapter includes skill instruction, practice exercises, quizzes, and mastery tests. Because the text is brief and concise, students focus on the most essential academic reading skills.

FEATURES

• Emphasis on essential skills for active reading. The text contains only the most important reading skills necessary for academic success: active reading and thinking, vocabulary development, literal and critical comprehension, and organizing information.
• Four-color, visually appealing design. Increasingly, students are becoming visual learners, and visual literacy is critical to success in today's world. To facilitate visual learning, photographs, diagrams, and charts are used to clarify relationships and demonstrate paragraph organization.
• Many practice exercises, review tests and mastery tests. Practice tests provide students with observable, measurable evidence that they are learning and improving their skills. Students are more prepared for an assessment or exit test the instructor assigns later.
• Bonus topics in the student resource guide. Topics cover academic, electronic, and real world reading strategies.
• Additional readings. Ten additional readings at the end of the text–;five of them from college textbooks, two of them short stories–provide instructors with flexibility in choosing readings appropriate to the students' needs and interests.

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