Publication date:
03 December 2015Length of book:
54 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDimensions:
7x175mm7x0"
ISBN-13: 9781475822236
Learning Vital Reading Strategies: A Workbook for Students is a workbook that supplements the instruction offered in Help! My College Students Can’t Read: Teaching Vital Reading Strategies in the Content Areas (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). The workbook focuses specifically on ready-made activities to help students learn vital reading strategies that are applicable to all academic texts.
Special features include “Point to Ponder” critical thinking prompts, practice texts from a range of academic disciplines, and “Professional Spotlight” interviews focusing on field-specific reading demands and the importance of strong reading skills in real-world professions
- Staying engaged with academic content material
- Developing purposes for reading
- Making reading predictions
- Evaluating textual information
- Drawing inferences
- Developing higher-level questions
- Making connections to prior knowledge
- Creating visuals to enhance comprehension
- Navigating difficult or unfamiliar vocabulary
Special features include “Point to Ponder” critical thinking prompts, practice texts from a range of academic disciplines, and “Professional Spotlight” interviews focusing on field-specific reading demands and the importance of strong reading skills in real-world professions
Gamel shines a light on the troubling status of reading in higher education; many students simply lack the basic reading skills to manage college level work. Learning Vital Reading Strategies: A Workbook for Students skillfully delivers pragmatic and user-friendly tools that tackle student reading problems head on. If you teach in higher education and are serious about student success, you need this book.