Structured Reading

Name: Structured Reading
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ISBN: 9780205244652

ISBN-10: 0205244653

ISBN-13: 9780205244652

Edition: 8th 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Lynn Troyka, Joe Thweatt

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Structured Readingis grounded in the theory that students learn best from guided, hands-on experience with complete, not partial, reading selections. This text approaches students with detailed instruction in the separate skills areas that assure movement to college-level reading abilities, followed by extensive, repeated practice found in a variety of essays from books, magazines, and texts.

Book details

List price: $66.99
Edition: 8th
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pearson Education, Limited
Publication date: 7/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface



Skills for Reading



What Is Your Personal Reading HISTory?



What Is the Reading Process?



What Is the Role of "SQ3R" When Reading to Study?



How Can I Improve My Vocabulary?



What Are "Central Theme" and "Main Ideas"?



What Are "Major Details"?



How Can Maps, Outlines, and Visuals Help with Reading?



What Are "Inferences"?



What Is "Critical Reading"?



Critical Reading: What Are "The Author's Strategies"?



Critical Reading: What Is a "Summary"?



What Is "Reader's Response"?


Answers to Activities in Part One






A Real Loss



Vocabulary list with dictionary entries


Exercises:



Vocabulary



Central Theme and Main Ideas



Major Details



Inferences



Critical Reading: Fact or Opinion



Critical Reading: The Author's Strategies



Reader's Process: Summarizing Your Reading



Reader's Response: To Discuss or to Write About



To Catch a Thief




Freegans Salvage Food from the City's Bountiful Garbage



Selection 4




Darkness at Noon




Ugly and Lovable






Selection 7



Selection 8



Selection 9




Divorcing Couples Seek Solace in Ring-Smashing Ceremonies by Sandra Barron


Selection 11



Selection 12







How to Stay Alive




Waging War on Wrinkles




The Danger of Hoarding




Forty Acres and a Holiday




My Mother's Blue Bowl




From In Search of Bernabï¿½