Reading with Meaning: Strategies for College Reading

By Dorothy Grant Hennings and Hennings D.G.

Reading with Meaning offers users an opportunity to improve their reading skills, as well as strategies important for success in any arena. It provides culturally significant, engaging selections from literature, popular books, and magazines that readers typically encounter daily. This book builds word power by teaching vocabulary skills, and provides information about such basic strategies as grasping the main idea of paragraphs and the thesis of an article, using clue words to anticipate meaning, thinking critically, studying for tests, and interpreting charts and graphs. Readings cover a range of topics, including history, psychology, economics, sociology, career planning, biology, geology, business, and literature, including poetry. An excellent resource for those involved in Continuing Education or ESL classes, this book is also a useful tool for anyone interested in improving their reading and comprehension skills.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131849557
• ISBN13: 9780131849556
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 10.8"

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