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