Building Bridges: A Thematic Approach to College Reading & Writing

Building Bridges: A Thematic Approach to College Reading & Writing provides a complete process of research-based instruction that fully integrates reading and writing. This volume follows the prereading, during-reading, and postreading strategies that many scholars and practitioners have advocated and proven to be an effective reading/teaching tool. This book also offers comprehensive exercises for vocabulary words, which is essential for improving reading comprehension. Articles are drawn from local newspapers and magazines which build the connection from the readers’ cultural experiences to texts, providing a reading/writing scaffold to stabilize the students’ fundamental skills whereby they become self-supporting in college.

Building Bridges features:

• Prereading – assists the student to interact with the reading material
• Vocabulary in Context – familiarizes the student with speaking and thinking
• The Reading Process – outlines topics, main ideas, details of each reading, open-ended questions, etc.
• Postreading – addresses how the reader can make connections from reading to writing
• Writing a Summary – allows students to utilize their writing abilities to communicate their understanding of the text
• Application – journal writing helps students process information from the text to develop their awareness
• Building Critical Thinking – students are asked to develop an outline consisting of an introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph
• Grammar Practice via Internet – presents links to websites designed for students to research grammar components related to the text