Product Review
Active Reading Skills focuses on essential skill areas for college-reading success, and improves students' reading through concise instruction, and extensive practice and testing. Each chapter focuses on a specific reading and thinking skill, and contains exercises that get students applying the learned skill to textbooks and ends with a vocabulary enrichment exercise.
- Critical thinking and reading skills are taught hand-in-hand with the basic building blocks for reading success.
- Concise skill instruction and abundant practice means students spend more time actively improving their reading skills
- Many practice exercises, review tests and mastery tests practice tests provide students with observable, measurable evidence that they are learning and improving their skills.
- “Textbook Challenge Sections” in Chapters 1-8 guide students in integrating and applying the chapter content to textbook reading activities.
- Each chapter includes two full-length readings - one in the “Challenge” section and another as part of Mastery Test 3.
- “Think About It” chapter-opening visuals connect students to the chapter’s content.
- A four-color, visually appealing design keeps students engaged in the material and provides visual cues to denote important information.
- Chapter 1 now includes an introduction to critical reading (to set the scene for its [critical reading] expanded coverage throughout the book) as well as coverage of SQ3R, textbook learning aides, and recall and retention strategies.
- The new “Thinking Critically About” sections link the chapter reading skills with related critical reading and thinking skills.
- Enhanced “Textbook Challenge Sections” (in Chapters 1-8) contain longer textbook excerpts from a wide range of disciplines
- The new “Critical Thinking Challenge” activities in Part II complement the “Textbook Challenge” and focus on the application of critical thinking skills.
- A new Resource Guide for Exit Exams and Competency Tests includes test taking strategies and a sample Practice Test.
- New learning goals appear at the beginning of each chapter, and correspond to the major headings in the chapter. New “Self-Test Summaries” provide students with an opportunity to test themselves for mastery of these learning goals.
- New “Self-Test Summaries” provide students with an opportunity to test themselves for mastery of these learning goals.
- In addition to new longer readings in most Mastery Tests, over 25% of the brief reading selections and accompanying pedagogy throughout the text have been revised, giving students new reading material that is lively, up-to-date, and thought-provoking.
- New icons in the margins point provide easy-to-follow click paths to areas in MyReadingLab that relate to the content being discussed.
