Learning Vital Reading Strategies

Learning Vital Reading Strategies: A Workbook for Students is a workbook that supplements the instruction offered in Help! My College Students Can't Read: Teaching Vital Reading Strategies in the Content Areas (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). The workbook focuses specifically on ready-made activities to help students learn vital reading strategies that are applicable to all academic texts. 1.Staying engaged with academic content material 2.Developing purposes for reading 3.Making reading predictions 4.Evaluating textual information 5.Drawing inferences 6.Developing higher-level questions 7.Making connections to prior knowledge 8.Creating visuals to enhance comprehension 9.Navigating difficult or unfamiliar vocabulary Special features include "Point to Ponder" critical thinking prompts, practice texts from a range of academic disciplines, and "Professional Spotlight" interviews focusing on field-specific reading demands and the importance of strong reading skills in real-world professions 9781475822236 1475822235 0 Developmental reading NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J2A7jgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Amelia Leighton Gamel
• • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• • Publication Date: Dec 03, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 54 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1475822235
• • ISBN-13: 9781475822236