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This high-level developmental reader focuses on reading flexibility and how to analyze different genres of writing. Students learn different strategies for approaching textbooks, magazines, newspapers, and other genres. After a basic review of comprehension and critical-reading skills, the text introduces four units of thematically linked readings. Each reading is accompanied by a description of its specific features and some appropriate responses to those features. Readings that center on two or...

ISBN13: 9780300164046. ISBN10: 0300164041. by Willes. Published by Triliteral. Edition: 10

It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This book examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. Margaret Willes considers a selection of private and public libraries across the...

Reading Matters

[ Ships Daily ] Condition: Fair ISBN-13: 9780395904299 ISBN-10: 0395904293Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub Date: 7/1/2001 Binding: Paperback Pages: 278

Three video tapes show parents and other concerned adults how they can support the efforts of classroom teachers to promote success in reading. The series starts with the teacher's point of view on the abilities and experiences necessary for reading readiness, then shows how reading is taught in the classroom and how parents can encourage children as they begin to read.

Literary Criticism Semiotics & Theory

Stimulating readings and a communicative, integrated-skills approach help students to develop fluency and accuracy in academic reading. Organized into thematic units, the readings feature high-interest, contemporary topics in fields such as culture, science, the environment, business, sports, and entertainment. Extensive practice exercises accompany the selections helping students to understand the purpose and nature of different texts, master vocabulary for academic and professional success, and...

Human beings were never born to read. This program seeks to understand how the brain, which has evolved no hardwired “reading center,” made the leap to literacy; why reading well-crafted writing is so profoundly important to intellectual and emotional development; and whether the Internet, with its blogs and videos and games, is placing novels—a prime type of reading material for nurturing the capacity for empathy—at risk. Why Reading Matters is a trip into the space where neuroscience and literature...

Pages: 281, Edition: 2, Paperback, Houghton Mifflin Co

* This innovative collection of strategies and activities draws on middle schoolers' desire to "be heard" by placing them in the position of reviewer, editor, and critic of their reading assignments.

ISBN13: 9780618475124. ISBN10: 0618475125. by Mary Lee Wholey. Published by Cengage Learning. Edition: 2ND 07

Discription Science writer Rita Carter tells the story of how modern neuroscience has revealed that reading, something most of us take for granted, unlocks remarkable powers. Carter explains how the classic novel Wuthering Heights allows us to step inside other minds and understand the world from different points of view, and she wonders whether the new digital revolution could threaten the values of classic reading.

Pages: 352, Edition: 1, Paperback, Wadsworth Publishing

Pages: 21, Digital, Phi Delta Kappa, Inc.

Used successfully by classroom teachers, tutors, ESL teachers, and parents, these workbooks have just been revised and updated, with the addition of new reading selections, new vocabulary, and a new writing exercise. Each workbook has thirty-one selections in different subject areas. Within each workbook there are themes that relate the selections to one another, show different aspects of a topic, and give students a broad knowledge of the topic. Selections follow a consistent format: About the Passage...