Reading for Results12th edition, 2013 A developmental reading text aimed at students who have some basic reading skills but need more help improving and refining those skills.
Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning
ISBN-13: 978-1-133-94571-0 |
In this—the 12th—edition of Reading for Results, I've tried to summarize pretty much everything I have learned about reading over the last thirty years. Although the emphasis on clear, detailed explanations with lots of models and lots of practice remains, I have made two big changes. In the first of those changes, the sequence has been speeded up so that students who are prepared for it can move more quickly into longer readings as soon as they have completed chapter 4, "Getting to the Point of Paragraphs." Students who need more practice with paragraphs would go to chapter 6 first, "Focusing on Supporting Details in Paragraphs," and then move into chapters 5 and 7, both of which focus on multi-paragraph selections.
The second change involves a greater emphasis on showing students how to determine what's important in a reading by telling them to focus on the way key words get repeated or referred to throughout a passage. Using what I call "chains of repetition and reference," student readers construct a main idea and use the topic sentence or thesis statement to confirm their idea about an author's message. This description of the reading process better fits what I see readers doing when they determine an author's message. It also better fits the reading research I've been poring over for years now, always trying to figure out how to make practice and theory match up. I hope you like the changes, and if you do or you don't, I hope you'll write me with comments or questions. As always, I'll do my best to answer them.
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Last update of this page: February 18, 2013