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Essential Reading Skills (with MyReadingLab) (3rd Edition) (McWhorter Developmental Reading (Concise)) [Paperback]

Kathleen T. McWhorter (Author)
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020554004X 978-0205540044 October 19, 2006 3
 

Essential Reading Skills focuses on the four essential skill areas for college-reading success (active reading and thinking, vocabulary development, literal and critical comprehension, and organizational emphasis) and improves students' reading through concise instruction, and extensive practice and testing. Each of the eleven chapters focuses on a specific reading and thinking skill, and contains exercises that get students applying the learned skill to textbooks and ends with a vocabulary enrichment exercise.

 

Concise instruction on the essential reading skills needed for college with extensive practice.

 

6th — 9th grade reading levels



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Essential Reading Skills is designed to improve one's reading and thinking skills through concise skill instruction, extensive guided practice, skill application, assessment, and feedback. The book is organized into ten chapters, each focusing on a specific reading and thinking skill. Each chapter includes skill instruction, practice exercises, quizzes, and mastery tests. Because the book is brief and concise, readers can focus on the most essential reading skills. For those interested in developing their reading skills at the 6-9 grade reading level. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Longman; 3 edition (October 19, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 020554004X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0205540044
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,152,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Kathleen T. McWhorter is the author of more than a dozen textbooks designed to help students succeed in college. Born in a rural farm community in Upstate New York, she went on to receive her Ed.D. from SUNY Buffalo. For 34 years she taught at Niagara County Community College in Sanborn, NY, where she is professor emerita of humanities. Through her textbooks Dr. McWhorter has helped an estimated 500,000 students improve their reading, writing, and thinking skills.


 

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2.0 out of 5 stars i got this item and it had missing pages and messed up my whole class coz i really needed this book, October 8, 2009
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