Becoming A Great Reader and Writer in College
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2021
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2021
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Become a Great Reader and Writer in College: Get the Basics Now is written for college bound students to ensure they have the reading and writing competency for the more advanced, challenging assignments they will encounter in college.
This text’s integrated approach to reading and writing helps provide a strong foundation in reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing. The many exercises throughout the book strengthen each chapter’s instruction.
A key feature that makes this book enjoyable is that instruction has been minimized, but the many exercises provide assurance that each skill will be mastered.
CHAPTER ONE: THE READING AND WRITING CONNECTION
Challenge 1: Becoming Familiar with Reading and Writing Concepts
Strategy: “The 6 W Strategy: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How”
CHAPTER TWO: VOCABULARY
Challenge 1: Increasing Expressive and Receptive Vocabularies: Focusing on The Big 205
Challenge 2: Focusing on Context Clues to Increase Vocabulary
Challenge 3: Using Word Parts to build hundreds of words
Strategy: “Index Strategy”
CHAPTER THREE: FUN TIME WITH WORDS
Challenge 1: Becoming a Wordsmith
Strategy: “ABLE Strategy: Always Be A Little Early”
CHAPTER FOUR: ADVANCING TO COLLEGE READING
Challenge 1: Learning all about the Main Idea
Strategy: “Teach It”
CHAPTER FIVE: ATTENTION TO DETAILS
Challenge 1: Learning how Details Support the Main Idea
Strategy: “STW: Stop, Think, and then Write”
CHAPTER SIX: ADVANCING TO COLLEGE WRITING
Challenge 1: Writing a strong introductory essay paragraph
Challenge 2: Developing your essay and finishing with a strong conclusion
Strategy: “Flower: The strategy for essay exams”
CHAPTER SEVEN: WRITING TO LEARN IN THE CONTENT AREAS
Challenge 1: Using writing to promote learning in content areas
Challenge 2: Writing activities for content areas
Strategy: “WIMMS Strategy: Writing in Margins Makes Sense”
CHAPTER EIGHT: APPLYING READING AND WRITING CONNECTIONS WITH PATTERNS OF ORGANIZATION
Challenge 1: Using Patterns of Organization to write Strong Introductory Paragraphs
Challenge 2: How to increase learning with patterns of organization
Strategy: “Expository to Narrative Strategy”
CHAPTER NINE: VISUAL/GRAPHIC READING AND WRITING CONNECTIONS
Challenge 1: Learning about the four basic types of visual/graphics
Challenge 2: Learn how to comprehend visual/graphical information
Strategy: “Every Picture Tells a Story”
Quotations from Book 1
Answer Key
Patsy Self Trand, Ph.D. is a retired faculty member of Florida International University and the former administrator of the FIU Reading and Learning Lab. At FIU Dr. Trand taught undergraduate, honors, and graduate courses in Reading and Language Arts. Dr. Trand is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Miami for the School of Education. She is committed to passing on her wealth of knowledge and experiences to help high school and college students reach their academic goals. She has authored many articles, has presented at many national and international conferences, and has authored eight college level textbooks.
Kay Lopate, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita from the University of Miami where she co-founded the Reading and Study Skills Center and taught for the School of Education. Her special interests are preparing premed students for medical school and helping undergraduates acquire the advanced reading abilities to succeed with their college level textbooks and classes. She has co-authored eight college reading and learning strategy textbooks with Dr. Patsy Trand.
Become a Great Reader and Writer in College: Get the Basics Now is written for college bound students to ensure they have the reading and writing competency for the more advanced, challenging assignments they will encounter in college.
This text’s integrated approach to reading and writing helps provide a strong foundation in reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing. The many exercises throughout the book strengthen each chapter’s instruction.
A key feature that makes this book enjoyable is that instruction has been minimized, but the many exercises provide assurance that each skill will be mastered.
CHAPTER ONE: THE READING AND WRITING CONNECTION
Challenge 1: Becoming Familiar with Reading and Writing Concepts
Strategy: “The 6 W Strategy: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How”
CHAPTER TWO: VOCABULARY
Challenge 1: Increasing Expressive and Receptive Vocabularies: Focusing on The Big 205
Challenge 2: Focusing on Context Clues to Increase Vocabulary
Challenge 3: Using Word Parts to build hundreds of words
Strategy: “Index Strategy”
CHAPTER THREE: FUN TIME WITH WORDS
Challenge 1: Becoming a Wordsmith
Strategy: “ABLE Strategy: Always Be A Little Early”
CHAPTER FOUR: ADVANCING TO COLLEGE READING
Challenge 1: Learning all about the Main Idea
Strategy: “Teach It”
CHAPTER FIVE: ATTENTION TO DETAILS
Challenge 1: Learning how Details Support the Main Idea
Strategy: “STW: Stop, Think, and then Write”
CHAPTER SIX: ADVANCING TO COLLEGE WRITING
Challenge 1: Writing a strong introductory essay paragraph
Challenge 2: Developing your essay and finishing with a strong conclusion
Strategy: “Flower: The strategy for essay exams”
CHAPTER SEVEN: WRITING TO LEARN IN THE CONTENT AREAS
Challenge 1: Using writing to promote learning in content areas
Challenge 2: Writing activities for content areas
Strategy: “WIMMS Strategy: Writing in Margins Makes Sense”
CHAPTER EIGHT: APPLYING READING AND WRITING CONNECTIONS WITH PATTERNS OF ORGANIZATION
Challenge 1: Using Patterns of Organization to write Strong Introductory Paragraphs
Challenge 2: How to increase learning with patterns of organization
Strategy: “Expository to Narrative Strategy”
CHAPTER NINE: VISUAL/GRAPHIC READING AND WRITING CONNECTIONS
Challenge 1: Learning about the four basic types of visual/graphics
Challenge 2: Learn how to comprehend visual/graphical information
Strategy: “Every Picture Tells a Story”
Quotations from Book 1
Answer Key
Patsy Self Trand, Ph.D. is a retired faculty member of Florida International University and the former administrator of the FIU Reading and Learning Lab. At FIU Dr. Trand taught undergraduate, honors, and graduate courses in Reading and Language Arts. Dr. Trand is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Miami for the School of Education. She is committed to passing on her wealth of knowledge and experiences to help high school and college students reach their academic goals. She has authored many articles, has presented at many national and international conferences, and has authored eight college level textbooks.
Kay Lopate, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita from the University of Miami where she co-founded the Reading and Study Skills Center and taught for the School of Education. Her special interests are preparing premed students for medical school and helping undergraduates acquire the advanced reading abilities to succeed with their college level textbooks and classes. She has co-authored eight college reading and learning strategy textbooks with Dr. Patsy Trand.