Basic Skills for Effective Reading [Paperback]

Selma Wilf (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0139541160 | ISBN-13: 978-0139541162 | Publication Date: October 1994 | Edition: 3rd

Brings adults with limited reading skills closer to college-level reading by providing a step-by-step, hands-on approach to reading skill development and applications. Uses contemporary learning theory (i.e., skill preview, division of skills into small units, guided practice, immediate feedback, and skill practice). Presents word attack skills (e.g., phonics and syllabication); skills related to the use of context clues, word parts, a dictionary, and a personal vocabulary system; and skills for the formation and mapping of packages of related information through the identification of the main ideas and details in paragraphs and longer selections. Contains practice reading selections and exercises that provide opportunities not only for reading, but for critical thinking and writing as well. For adults with limited reading skills.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Designed specifically to meet the needs of students with limited reading skills, this text offers a hands-on, step-by-step approach with phonics to reading skill development and application to bring such students closer to college-level reading.

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Designed to bring students from roughly a 4th grade reading level up to a 7th grade reading level, and to prepare them for more advanced reading. Wilf uses phonics and syllabication to teach word attack skills, then continues to help the student increase their vocabulary and increases literal and inferred comprehension.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div; 3rd edition (October 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0139541160
• ISBN-13: 978-0139541162
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,324,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars buying my second copy . . ., July 13, 2000

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This review is from: Basic Skills for Effective Reading (4th Edition) (Paperback)

I am working with middle and high school students who have reading problems. This book includes several approaches to reading instruction, and itself becomes a workbook for the student. It is organized well and does not "talk down" to students by using "less than" adult content. I am finding it useful, and it inspires ideas of my own to try as well. My expertise on phonics, word roots, reading comprehension is broad, but not stellar. Still, most of what Wilf presents squares with my knowledge, unlike some instructional books which have information that is simplistic, or just plain wrong. At the same time I read this book, I was reading Moustafa's Beyond Traditional Phonics. Although Moustafa is talking about reading instruction with young students, the two books in tandem gave me a nice balance for developing my ideas.

1.0 out of 5 stars Book fallening apart., September 5, 2010

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This review is from: Basic Skills for Effective Reading (4th Edition) (Paperback)

The book was advertise used. This book was falling apart. When you would turn the pages they would fall about the binding was coming apart, 95% of the book had writing in it. I just throw it out,it wasn't worth sending back. Plus,it also looked as if was kept in a damp place.