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Essential Reading Skills, 3/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.)

Essential Reading Skills, with its acute focus on what is quintessential to reading success, improves students' reading ability through concise instruction, guided practice, skill application, assessment, and feedback.

The lower-level text in a two-book series, Essential Reading Skills is intended for the 6th-to-9th grade reading level. The focus is on the four essential skill areas for college-reading success (active reading and thinking, vocabulary development, literal and critical comprehension, and organizational emphasis) and improving students' reading through concise instruction and extensive practice and testing. Each of the eleven chapters focuses on a specific reading and thinking skill, and contains exercises that get students applying the learned skill to textbooks and ends with a vocabulary enrichment exercise.

FEATURES

• Emphasis on the essential college reading skills—Equipping students with instruction for only the most important reading skills for college success, Essential Reading Skills focuses on active reading and thinking, vocabulary development, literal and critical comprehension, and organizational emphasis.
• Four-color, visually appealing design—Today's college students are increasingly becoming visual learners, making visual literacy is critical to success in the world. To facilitate visual learning, photographs, diagrams, and charts are used to clarify relationships and demonstrate paragraph organization.
• Extensive practice with exercises, review tests, and mastery tests—Practice exercises and tests provide students with needed skill application and repetition. With observable, measurable evidence that they are learning and improving their skills, students are more prepared for a later assessments and exit tests.
• Additional readings for more practice—Ten additional readings at the end of the text provide students with more skill-application practice and instructors with flexibility in choosing readings appropriate to the students' needs.
• Vocabulary enrichment exercises—To build a college-level vocabulary and prepare students for words they will frequently encounter, vocabulary development exercises are found at the end of every skill chapter.
• Test-taking tips in every chapter—Help students prepare for and to pass key exit exams.
• A writing component after each mastery test—Strengthening students' writing ability and complementing Kathleen McWhorter's underpinning of metacognition, three questions for writing and three questions for discussion include specific prompts about the length or features of the writing.

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