Comprehending college textbooks: Steps to understanding and remembering what you read

Created for developmental  reading and study skills courses, Comprehending College Textbooks focuses on college textbook reading comprehension.  The text provides a systematic approach to the reading process and reinforces concepts, skills, and strategies through practice and effective repetition.

Comprehending College Textbooks: Steps to Understanding and Remembering What You Read

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Cortina,Joe

Elder,Janet

Gonnet, Katherine

Words, Language & Grammar

Mcgraw-Hill College

Created for developmental reading and study skills courses, this book focuses on reading comprehension, utilizing a theoretical framework that encourages interaction and thinking. The text systematically reinforces concepts, skills, and strategies through practice and pedagogically effective repetition. Passages of varying lengths and difficulty are excerpted from text books, spanning content from across the disciplines. An instructor's manual is available.

CONNECT READING provides a personalized learning plan for each student, continually developed and refined as students achieve mastery. Each student plan is created through an individualized diagnostic that evaluates skills from 7th-grade level through college-readiness, for second-language learners, international students, adult students, and traditional high-schoolers. Offered completely online, CONNECT READING can be used in conjunction with NEW WORLDS or OPENING DOORS, which provide a printed experience that teaches critical reading skills through close reading of anthologized chapters from best-selling undergraduate texts in Psychology, Sociology, Business, and more.

Opening Doors: Understanding College Reading

Created for developmental reading and study skills courses, Comprehending College Textbooks focuses on college textbook reading comprehension. The text provides a systematic approach to the reading process and reinforces concepts, skills, and strategies through practice and effective repetition.

Comprehending College Textbooks: Steps To Understanding and Remembering What You Read

Gonnett, Katherine

Foreign Language Study & Reference

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

New Worlds: An Introduction to College Reading, 2/e

McGraw-Hill/Higher Education

The new fourth edition of Joe Cortina and Janet Elder's "New Worlds: An Introduction to College Reading" continues to offer a clear, effective, and systematic way to approach college reading assignments. "New Worlds" introduces the skills needed to master college-level reading, and shows how to apply those skills throughout the college curriculum and beyond.

New Worlds: An Introduction to College Reading

CONNECT READING provides a personalized learning plan for each student, continually developed and refined as students achieve mastery. Each student plan is created through an individualized diagnostic that evaluates skills from 7th-grade level through college-readiness, for second-language learners, international students, adult students, and traditional high-schoolers. Offered completely online, CONNECT READING can be used in conjunction with Elder's NEW WORLDS or Cortina's OPENING DOORS, which provide a printed workbook experience that teaches critical reading skills through close reading of anthologized chapters from best-selling undergraduate texts in Psychology, Sociology, Business, and more.

McGraw=Hill

This CD-ROM provides students with a rich multimedia extension of the text’s content. Each module of the CD-ROM is tied to a chapter of the text, featuring quizzes with feedback for both right and wrong answers, video and audio clips, crossword puzzles, Web links, journal activities, and an Internet primer. Available for free when packaged with the text.

Student CD-ROM for use with Opening Doors

McGraw/Hill

This intermediate-level text for Developmental Reading and Reading and Study Skills courses presents a systematic way of approaching college textbook material to help students be more efficient in their reading and studying. Packaged with a free student CD-ROM and containing 24 full-length selections from both textbooks and popular sources, plus 2 complete textbook chapters, Opening Doors teaches essential reading comprehension skills and specific strategies for approaching college reading assignments effectively.

Opening Doors w. Student CD-ROM

New Worlds is an introductory college reading improvement text that applies the successful approach of the authors' Opening Doors and Comprehending College Textbooks, and Janet Elder's Exercise Your College Reading Skills, in a format designed to help lower-level developmental reading students succeed in college. This approach presents skills clearly, in a structured approach that emphasizes comprehension and provides thorough, on-going practice and application of the skills. This second edition includes fuller explanations, more practice exercises, ten new reading selections, expanded quizzes for all reading selections, and a wealth of new media support.

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Comprehending College Textbooks: Steps to Understanding and Remembering What You Read

Comprehending College Textbooks: Steps to Understanding and Remembering What You Read

Opening Doors: Understanding College Reading

Comprehending College Textbooks: Steps To Understanding and Remembering What You Read

New Worlds: An Introduction to College Reading, 2/e

New Worlds: An Introduction to College Reading

Opening Doors: Understanding College Reading

Student CD-ROM for use with Opening Doors

Opening Doors w. Student CD-ROM

New Worlds: An Introduction to College Reading