Description: Featuring major chapter additions, freshened content, and enhanced visual appeal, this revised edition of Groundwork for College Reading is ideal for students and adult learners in a very basic developmental reading or ESL course. Key Features 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. In general, the focus is on teaching the skills—not just on explaining them and not just on testing them. 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. Dull and unvaried readings and exercises work against learning. Students need to experience genuine interest and enjoyment in what they read. Teachers as well should be able to take pleasure in the selections, for their own good feeling about them can carry over favorably into class work. The readings in the book, then, have been chosen not only for the appropriateness of their reading level but also for their compelling content. They should appeal to a wide range of students—developmental students, students for whom English is a second language, and Adult Basic Education students. They also take into account the diverse backgrounds of such students. 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 at the back of the book also makes for versatility: it means that an instructor can assign parts of each chapter for self-teaching. Finally, the mastery tests—each on its own tear-out page—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 Part 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. 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 How to Become a Better Reader and Thinker Part One: Ten Steps to College Reading 1 Getting Started Reading: A Parent Gets a Reading Lesson Lucia Herndon Mastery Tests 2 Dictionary Use Reading: Discovering Words Malcolm X Mastery Tests 3 Vocabulary in Context Reading: One Less Sucker Lives Jeanne R. Smith Mastery Tests 4 Main Ideas Reading: Classroom Notetaking Robin White Mastery Tests 5 Supporting Details Reading: Winning the Job Interview Game Marcia Prentergast Mastery Tests 6 Finding Main Ideas Reading: Learning Survival Skills Jean Coleman Mastery Tests 7 Signal Words I Reading: Migrant Child to College Woman Maria Cardenas Mastery Tests 8 Signal Words II Reading: Life Over Death Bill Broderick Mastery Tests 9 Inferences Reading: Dare to Think Big Dr. Ben Carson Mastery Tests 10 The Basics of Argument Reading: The Shocking State of the American Diet Adam Taylor Mastery Tests Part Two: Ten Reading Selections 1 Learning to Read: The Marvel Kretzmann Story Mary Sherry 2 The Blind Vet Gail Hoffman 3 The Fist, the Clay, and the Rock Donald Holland 4 It's Not My Fault Roger Kennedy 5 Joe Davis: A Cool Man Beth Johnson 6 Rosa: A Success Story Edward Patrick 7 The Lady, or the Tiger? Frank R. Stockton 8 Dawn's Story Nancy Kerns 9 Knowledge Is Power Anna-Maria Petricic 10 What I Believe John Langan Part Three: Relationships and Combined Skills Relationships Tests Combined Skills Tests Appendixes Pronunciation Guide Writing Assignments Limited Answer Key Acknowledgments Index Reading Performance Chart

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