Reading Skills For College

Ten Steps to Building College Reading Skills

Reading Skills for College

The Longman Academic Reading Series is a five-level series that prepares English language learners for academic work. The aim of the series is to make students more effective and confident readers by providing high-interest readings on academic subjects and by teaching them skills and strategies for effective reading, vocabulary building, note-taking, and critical thinking. The series also encourages students to discuss and write about the ideas they discovered in the readings, making them better speakers and writers of English as well. Features Readings based on academic sources -- Every reading in the text focuses on an academic subject and is chosen with the intent of providing different and intriguing perspectives on the theme. Multiple reading genres -- Readings come from a variety of sources or genres, from textbooks to on-line articles, and are written by a variety of experts from widely different fields. Explicit academic skills -- From critical reading to vocabulary building, notetaking and critical thinking, the Longman Academic Reading Series provides students with a holistic approach to effective reading. Corpus-Informed approach to vocabulary (AWL) -- Students build vocabulary and acquire skills that will help them become more confident and successful in preparing for their academic work.

Reading Skills for College Students

Prentice Hall is proud to present the seventh edition of READING SKILLS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS. Thousands of students have used this successful text to improve their vocabulary, comprehension, reading rate and test taking. Unlike many other texts, this READING SKILLS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS serves as an excellent resource for the rest of students'college careers by providing instruction on reading in six different major content areas. The author has included specific chapters on reading for: Literature, History Psychology Biology Computers and Data Processing Business