Reading With Meaning Strategies for College Reading

Reading With Meaning, Fifth Edition, offers an interactive, language-arts approach to college reading that helps students develop specific comprehension strategies important for success in college. The book provides culturally significant, interesting selections from textbooks, popular books, and magazines typical of what students need to read throughout their college years. This new two-color edition features an expanded coverage of main idea as well as a focus on building students' word power through new and enhanced pedagogy. NEW Expanded Coverage of Main Idea The fifth edition features a strong, three-chapter block on main idea. CHAPTER 4: Grasping the Main Idea of a Paragraph CHAPTER 5: Grasping the Thesis, or Main Idea, of an Entire Selection CHAPTER 6: Relating Main Ideas and Details NEW Focus on Building Word Power Did You Know feature alerts students to key vocabulary roots presented in the readings. Chart of word roots and combining forms located inside the back cover provide students with a handy reference to unlocking the meanings of words. NEWLY Enhanced Pedagogy for Reading Think About marginal notes ask students to think about the strategies they are using in making meaning with the text. Extending What You Have Learned exercises conclude each chapter, allowing students to reinforce what they have learned. Strategy boxes provide the students with systematic methods for applying reading strategies. NEW Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/hennings provides students with additional readings and comprehension quizzes for additional study and practice.Hennings, Dorothy Grant is the author of 'Reading With Meaning Strategies for College Reading', published 2001 under ISBN 9780130404183 and ISBN 0130404187.