Learning Vital Reading Strategies

A Workbook for Students

By (author) Amelia Leighton Gamel

Publication date:

03 December 2015

Length of book:

54 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

7x175mm
7x0"

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.

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

Introduction

1 Active Reading
Reading Strategies

2 Determining a Purpose
Making Predictions
Determining a Purpose
Evaluating Possible Purposes
Ways to Stay Engaged While Reading

3 Determining What’s Important
Striking Out Unneeded Information

4 Developing Higher-Level Question
Focus Quadrants
Asking Questions as We Read

5 Making Connections
Drawing Inferences
Connecting to Prior Knowledge

6 Navigating Unknown Words
Dealing with Difficult Vocabulary
Pie Chart Vocabulary
Ways to Study Lists of Terms

7 Creating Visuals to Enhance Comprehension and Recall
Practice Creating Visuals

8 Keeping It Real
Professional Spotlight Interviews
Conduct Your Own Professional Reading Interview

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.