Making Meaning : Building Strategies for College Reading (with MyReadingLab Student Access Code Card)
by Myers, Janeen; Eskridge, Evelyn; Tucker, Barbara Smart; Richardson, Patricia SmartEdition: 1st
Format: Package
Pub. Date: 2008-11-26
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary
The text is designed to be visually appealing through the use of numerous photographs and other graphics that illustrate points made in the text, stimulate critical thinking, and teach students to read visual materials.Making Meaningis recursive, giving the opportunity in each chapter for students to practice and integrate skills learned from previous lessons and apply those reading strategies to many kinds of texts.Balance of phonics instruction and whole language. Highly visual design. Steps to make meaning of what is read.
Table of Contents
| Preface: To the Instructor | |
| Introduction: Making Meaning from What You Read | |
| Preparing to Read | |
| Chapter Preview | |
| Making Meaning | |
| Introduction | |
| Structured Instruction And Exercises | |
| Pre-reading | |
| Reading: Choosing a Job in a Nursing Home Title, Headings, Bullets, and Visuals | |
| Connecting to Prior Knowledge Predicting | |
| What a Reading is About Reader Response 1-1 | |
| Reader Response 1-2 | |
| Everyday Pre-reading | |
| Pre-reading and Visual Information | |
| How to Preview (or Pre-read) a Textbook | |
| Reading a Textbook Chapter | |
| Practicing What You Have Learned | |
| Practice 1-1 through 1-4: The Struggle for Civil Rights | |
| Practice 1-5: Reading a Chart, African-American Voter | |
| Registration in The South, 1960-1970 | |
| Practice 1-6 through 1-9: Pre-reading a Play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare | |
| Summary | |
| Mastery Tests | |
| American History: The Struggle for Civil Rights | |
| Reading a Map, USA Time Zones | |
| Reading a Chart, Stages of Human Development | |
| Reading a Graph, ldquo;From the Bottom to the Toprdquo; Reader Response 1-3 | |
| Reading a Webpage, Recycling | |
| Reader Response 1-4 Progress Chart | |
| Recognizing Consonants and Vowels | |
| Chapter Preview Making Meaning | |
| Introduction Structured | |
| Instruction and Exercises Consonants Vowels | |
| Reading: A Long Night Ahead, M. C. Dore Practicing What You Have Learned Practice 2-1: Consonants, The Search Goes On, M. C. Dore | |
| Reader Response 2-1 | |
| Practice 2-2 | |
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