This comprehensive college reading preparatory text will help your students learn to read and process information the way their brains can best learn and memorize it. Christine Carter has developed a powerful approach to building reading skills that is based on the latest research in brain-based learning: when students recognize the structure and organization of information, they maximize their learning power. This focus on text structure provides a scaffold onto which developmental-level readers can apply new knowledge. Information is presented in a carefully crafted sequence that serves to build upon prior knowledge and expand understanding of skills and strategies in a recursive manner. To help students improve their performance in all of their college courses, each chapter of this book helps them develop practical study skills, vocabulary skills, and strategies for reading the types of material they find in their textbooks.
Features
The text''s unique chapter organization is built on a framework of brain-based learning.
Themes applied to each chapter act as a way to build prior knowledge.
Varied practice throughout the book includes the Thinking It Through feature, which models a newly learned skill so that students can see and practice in a non-threatening environment. The On Your Own feature then challenges students to apply the skill without guidance.
Applications at the end of each chapter provide marginal support and prompt students to practice all the different skills learned in the chapter. To hold students'' interest, and to prepare them for the variation they will encounter in their college courses, no two Applications have the same apparatus.