Overview

The authors of Structured Reading have developed an innovative approach to teaching reading at the college level: detailed instruction in the separate skills areas followed by extensive, repeated practice.   Using an FAQ approach, Part One includes instruction in the separate college-level reading skills that students need.  Parts Two through Six contain thirty complete reading selections drawn from books, magazines, newspapers, and textbooks in disciplines across the curriculum.  

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Author:   Lynn Quitman Troyka ,  Joe Wayne Thweatt
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   7th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.621kg
ISBN:  

9780131887268

ISBN 10:   0131887262
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   28 August 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9780205723195
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Part 1 Skills for Reading Chapter 1 What Is Your Personal Reading History? Chapter 2 What Is the Reading Process? Chapter 3 What Is the Role of SQ3R When Reading to Study? Chapter 4 What Is the Role of Speed During Reading? Chapter 5 How Can I Improve My Vocabulary? Chapter 6 What Is Reading On, Between, and Beyond the Lines? Chapter 7 What Are Central Theme and Main Ideas ? Chapter 8 What Are Major Details ? Chapter 9 How Can Maps, Outlines, and Visuals Help With Reading? Chapter 10 What Are Inferences ? Chapter 11 What Is Critical Reading ? Chapter 12 Critical Reading: What Are The Author's Strategies ? Chapter 13 Critical Reading: What Is Summary ? Chapter 14 What Is Reader's Response ? Answers to Activities in Part One Part 2 Thinking: Getting Started Selection 1 A Real Loss,by Fern Kupfer Vocabulary list with dictionary entries Exercises:1A Vocabulary 1B Central Theme and Main Ideas 1C Major Details 1D Inferences 1E Critical Reading: Fact or Opinion 1F Critical Reading: The Author's Strategies 1G Reader's Process: Summarizing Your Reading 1H Reader's Response: To Discuss or to Write About Selection 2 Tyranny of Weakness, by Eda LeShan *Selection 3 Don't Sell Your Ambitions Short to keep it real , by Leonard Pitts, Jr. Selection 4 Darkness at Noon,by Harold Krents *Selection 5 To Catch a Thief, by Stephen Holt*Selection 6 Seoul Searching, by Rick Reilly Part 3 Thinking: Getting Started Selection 7 Summer, by Jonathan Schwartz *Selection 8 Brains the Ultimate Sex Appeal, by Wendi C. Thomas Selection 9 The Girl with the Large Eyes, by Julius Lester Selection 10 Flour Children, by Lexine Alpert Selection 11 The Magic Words Are Will You Help Me? by Michael Ryan *Selection 12 Family and Friends Share Pain and Questions by Erin Sullivan Part 4 Thinking: Getting Started Selection 13 How to Stay Alive, by Art Hoppe Selection 14 Genes and Behavior: A Twin Legacy, by Constance Holden Selection 15 Escaping the Daily Grind for Life as a House Father, by Rick Greenberg Selection 16 Forty Acres and a Holiday, by Lisa Jones Selection 17 My Mother's Blue Bowl, by Alice Walker Selection 18 From In Search of Bernabe, by Graciela Limon Part 5 Thinking: Getting Started Selection 19 Restored to the Sea, by Robin Micheli Selection 20 Death Penalty Victims, by Bob Herbert Selection 21 Should a Wife Keep Her Name? by Norman Lobsenz Selection 22 I Became Her Target, by Roger Wilkins Selection 23 Mute in an English-Only World, by Chang-rae LeeSelection 24 Out of Their Element, by Bob Akin Part 6 Thinking: Getting Started Selection 25 They Sniff Out Trouble, by Gail Buchalter Selection 26 She Made Her Dream Come True, by Michael Ryan Selection 27 Long-Term Memory, by Joseph Calkin and Richard S. Perrotto (textbook extract) Selection 28 A Personal Stress Survival Guide, by Dianne Hales (textbook extract) Selection 29 The Chaser, by John Collier *Selection 30 Reading Charts, Graphs, Illustrations, and Pictures AppendixProgress Charts Guide to Dictionary Use Credits Vocabulary Index General Index

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