Description: Page Title Ten Steps to Building College Reading Skills, 6/e, covers ten basic reading skills essential for sound reading comprehension. This new edition in the Ten Steps series is suitable for the basic developmental reading course offered at most colleges AND for high school English/Language Arts classes focused on building college readiness. Key Features of the Ten Steps Series Focus on the basics. The book seeks to explain, in an extremely clear, step-by-step way, the essential elements of each skill. Many examples are provided to ensure that students understand each point. Frequent practice and feedback. In the belief that progress is made largely through abundant practice and careful feedback, this book includes numerous activities. Students can get immediate feedback on the practice exercises in Part One by turning to the limited answer key at the back of the book. The answers to the review and mastery tests in Part One, the reading questions in Part Two, and the combined-skills tests in Part Three are in the Instructor’s Manual. High interest level. Students need to experience genuine interest and enjoyment in what they read. Teachers as well should be able to take pleasure in the selections. The readings in the book, then, have been chosen not only for the appropriateness of their reading level but also for their compelling content. Ease of use. The logical sequence in each chapter—from explanation to example to practice to review tests to mastery tests—helps make the skills easy to teach. The book’s organization into distinct parts also makes for ease of use. Within a single class, for instance, instructors can work on a particular skill in Part One, review another skill with a mastery test, and provide variety by having students read one of the selections in Part Two. The limited answer key allows an instructor to assign parts of each chapter for self-teaching. Finally, the mastery tests and the combined-skills tests make it a simple matter for a teacher to test and evaluate student progress. Integration of skills. Students do more than learn the skills individually in Parts One. They also learn to apply the skills together through the reading selections in Parts One and Two, and through the combined-skills tests in Part Three. They become effective readers and thinkers by means of a good deal of practice in applying a combination of skills. Online exercises. As they complete each skills chapter, students are invited to go online to the Townsend Press website to work on two additional practice exercises that reinforce what has been taught in the chapter. Thinking activities. Thinking activities—in the form of outlining, mapping, and summarizing—are a distinctive feature of the book. In addition, four discussion questions at the end of each reading selection encourage student reflection, as do the writing activities that are provided for each selection. Table of Contents Preface: To the Instructor Introduction 1 Getting Off to a Strong Start 2 One Reader's Story 3 How to Become a Better Reader and Thinker Part One: Ten Steps to Building College Reading Skills 1 Dictionary Use Reading: Responsibility M. Scott Peck Mastery Tests 2 Vocabulary in Context Reading: All Good Things Sister Helen P. Mrolsa Mastery Tests 3 Main Ideas Reading: Group Pressure Rodney Stark Mastery Tests 4 Supporting Details Reading: A Door Swings Open Roxanne Black Mastery Tests 5 Locations of Main Ideas Reading: Body Language Beth Johnson Mastery Tests 6 Relationships I Reading: Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the Family Michael S. Bassis, Richard J. Gelles, and Ann Levine Mastery Tests 7 Relationships II Reading: Conversing in Real Life Sarah Rice Mastery Tests 8 Inferences Reading: A Path to Marriage Jean Sutton Mastery Tests 9 Implied Main Ideas Reading: Lighting a Match Regina Ruiz Mastery Tests 10 The Basics of Argument Reading: Do It Better! Ben Carson, M. D., with Cecil Murphey Mastery Tests Part Two: Ten Reading Selections 1 Winners, Losers, or Just Kids Dan Wightman 2 The Right Words at the Right Time Jeff Bezos 3 Eye Contact Ron Clark 4 Judge Judy Speaks Judge Judy Sheindlin 5 Read All About It Fran Deblasio 6 Erika Hilario Beth Johnson 7 How to Make It in College, Now That You're Here Brian O'Keeney 8 Cooling Down Our Brains Jason Peters 9 Dealing with Feelings Rudolph F. Verdebrer 10 Not So Sweet Alessa Staley Part Three: Active Reading, Relationships, and Combined-Skills Tests 1 An Introduction to Active Reading 2 Practice in Active Reading I: Relationships Tests 3 Practice in Active Reading II: Combined-Skills Tests Appendixes Separating Fact from Opinion Identifying an Author's Purpose and Tone Writing Assignments Limited Answer Key

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