Learning Vital Reading Strategies: A Workbook for Students

by Amelia Leighton Gamel

Overview

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.

1. Staying engaged with academic content material
2. Developing purposes for reading
3. Making reading predictions
4. Evaluating textual information
5. Drawing inferences
6. Developing higher-level questions
7. Making connections to prior knowledge
8. Creating visuals to enhance comprehension
9. 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475822236
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/03/2015
Edition description:	Student
Pages:	54
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Amelia Leighton Gamel has comprehensive experience in the field of education as a reading specialist, college faculty member and administrator, educational presenter, and public school teacher. In addition to her current position as Lead Faculty for the reading program at Jackson College in Michigan, Amelia also serves as a facilitator for campus-wide reading workshops and classroom demonstrations in all content areas.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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.

Dr. Barry Wolfe