Structured Reading - Fourth Edition

Troyka, Lynn Q.

ISBN 10: 0130308420 / ISBN 13: 9780130308429

Published by Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1995

About this Item

Fifth Printing of the Fourth Edition. Designed to help students move up to college-level reading skills. Rather than having readers consider reading an abstraction broken into small parts, Troyka uses stimkulating, complete selections from books, magazines, newspapers, and textbooks to provide hands-on experience with reading. Base on research into which skills truly help people learn to read well, the extensive and varied exercises focus on reading for literal meaning, for inferential meaning, and for critical thinking. This edition features an opening chapter on the reading process that offers practical advice on reading spee, vocabulary building, context clues, the SQ3R study system, and all majoar skills of analytical and critical reading. None of the exercises have been filled nor are there any marks stamps or underlining.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Structured Reading - Fourth Edition
• Publisher: Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130308420
• ISBN 13: 9780130308429
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 5th Printing
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Using a highly effective approach, this book is based on the principle that readers improve their skills not by reading about reading, but rather by guided, hands-on experience with reading. Thirty core reading selections—include essays on road rage, coping with language barriers, Texas' Juneteenth celebration, death penalty victims, and crossing the border into the United States—are drawn from books, magazines, newspapers, and texts in various disciplines. They offer readers a diverse number of topics, interests them in the process of reading, and helps them develop their critical thinking, reading, and vocabulary. For anyone who wants to get more out of what they read.

From the Publisher

The highly regarded, exceptionally effective approach of Structured Reading is grounded in psycholinguistic theory and based on the principle that readers improve their skills not by reading about reading, but rather by guided, hands-on experience with reading.