Reading with Meaning: Strategies for College Reading (5th Edition) - Softcover

Hennings, Dorothy Grant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130404187 ISBN 13: 9780130404183

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2001

Synopsis

This book is designed to help users develop specific comprehension strategies for reading and understanding college-level materials. It uses a systematic approach for helping them strengthen such basic reading strategies as grasping the main idea of paragraphs and the thesis of an article, using clue words to anticipate, thinking critically, studying for tests, and interpreting charts and graphs. And, it features culturally significant, interesting selections from a broad range of discipline-specific textbooks, popular books, and magazines for practicing those strategies and techniques. A variety of pre- and post-reading exercises accompanying each selection. Getting Ready to Read. Using Context Clues. Using Word-Structure Clues. Grasping the Main Idea. Grasping the Thesis, or Main Idea, of an Entire Selection. Relating Main Ideas and Details. Using Clue Words to Follow an Author's Thoughts. Critical Thinking: Applying, Comparing, Inferring, Concluding, Judging. Understanding and Studying For College Tests: SQ3R, Highlighting, Charting, Webbing, Outlining, Summarizing, Remembering. Adjusting Your Concentration Level and Reading Rate. Interpreting Tables, Graphs, and Diagrams. Understanding Opinions and Persuasive Writing. Understanding Definitions and Explanations. Understanding Descriptions and Narratives. Interpreting Style, Tone, and Mood. For anyone who wants to develop or strengthen reading and comprehension skills for college-level materials.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This text prepares students to read the kinds of materials they will use in college courses--college texts, supporting books, journals and news articles. It takes an interactive-constructive view of reading and emphasizes an active response through collaboration and writing. Students learn specific strategies for making meaning with text, including previewing and brainstorming, purpose-setting, distinguishing main from supporting ideas, using clue words to track ideas, visualizing via webbing, charting and diagramming, using one's inner voice and thinking critically. Vocabulary is developed as an integral component of the reading process.

From the Back Cover:

Reading With Meaning, Fifth Edition, offers an interactive, language-arts approach to college reading that helps students develop specific comprehension strategies important for success in college. The book provides culturally significant, interesting selections from textbooks, popular books, and magazines typical of what students need to read throughout their college years. This new two-color edition features an expanded coverage of main idea as well as a focus on building students' word power through new and enhanced pedagogy.

• NEW Expanded Coverage of Main Idea
  The fifth edition features a strong, three-chapter block on main idea.
  —CHAPTER 4: Grasping the Main Idea of a Paragraph
  —CHAPTER 5: Grasping the Thesis, or Main Idea, of an Entire Selection
  —CHAPTER 6: Relating Main Ideas and Details

• NEW Focus on Building Word Power
  —Did You Know feature alerts students to key vocabulary roots presented in the readings.
  —Chart of word roots and combining forms located inside the back cover provide students with a handy reference to unlocking the meanings of words.

• NEWLY Enhanced Pedagogy for Reading
  —Think About marginal notes ask students to think about the strategies they are using in making meaning with the text.
  —Extending What You Have Learned exercises conclude each chapter, allowing students to reinforce what they have learned.
  —Strategy boxes provide the students with systematic methods for applying reading strategies.

• NEW Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/hennings provides students with additional readings and comprehension quizzes for additional study and practice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130404187
• ISBN 13: 9780130404183
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 331