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For courses in Developmental Reading.
This package includes MyReadingLab™.
Builds on the skills for college reading success
Bridging the Gap encourages students to build on their previous reading experience to develop strategies for the demands of college reading. The authors help students create schemata through numerous academic readings and videos, and ultimately build new “bridges” with text-to-text, text-to-world, and text-to-self connections.
At the same time, fundamentals are strengthened through comprehensive skill instruction, critical-thinking activities, dependable exercises and examples, vocabulary development, and abundant high-interest readings. Each chapter introduces a new strategy, provides short exercises, and then offers practice through longer textbook selections. A new sequencing of topics begins with subjects that are critical to college reading success.
Personalize learning with MyReadingLab
MyReadingLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them develop their reading skills and promotes transference of those skills to college-level work. Full-length readings and assignments from the text are available in the etext version of MyReadingLab, strengthening the connection between the classroom and work done outside of class.
0134075196 / 9780134075198 Bridging the Gap Plus MyReadingLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package
Package consists of:
- 0133995135 / 9780133995138 MyReadingLab with Pearson eText -- Glue in Access Card
- 0133995143 / 9780133995145 MyReadingLab with Pearson eText -- Inside Star Sticker
- 0134072766 / 9780134072760 Bridging the Gap: College Reading
Dr. Brenda Smith, Professor Emerita of Georgia State University, is the author of Bridging the Gap, Breaking Through, and the Reader’s Handbook. In addition, Dr. Smith has authored other books on college reading and testtaking, as well as being the general editor of a series of study skills books for five different content areas. Dr. Smith taught Developmental Studies Reading at GSU and developed Freshman Orientation courses for the university. She was twice awarded “Outstanding Article of the Journal of Developmental Education.” In addition, other awards include Distinguished Alumni Professor, Distinguished Georgia Educator, and Georgia Reading Teacher of the Year. Dr. Smith lives in Atlanta and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Shepherd Spinal Center and the Members Guild of the Atlanta History Center.
Dr. LeeAnn Morris has more than 20 years of community college teaching experience and is committed to helping students achieve their college and career goals. She takes great satisfaction in continuing Brenda Smith’s legacy of excellence by shepherding Breaking Through: College Reading through its ninth and tenth editions and Bridging the Gap: College Reading through its tenth and soon-to-be-published eleventh editions.
LeeAnn is a Distinguished Faculty professor at San Jacinto College near Houston and has been honored there with the Outstanding Faculty Award. She served as chair of the College Preparatory Department and is delighted to return to the classroom fulltime this fall to teach two levels of integrated reading and writing courses.
LeeAnn is an avid reader and believer in the power and pleasure of lifelong reading. She has done extensive research on reading workshop approaches for college developmental reading students. She has witnessed the satisfaction and growth that come from reading often and widely and has incorporated the reading workshop concept into her teaching and into
Breaking Through and
Bridging the Gap.
