The Effective Reader
- ISBN-10
- 0205573193
- ISBN-13
- 9780205573196
- Category
- College readers
- Pages
- 808
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Longman Publishing Group
- Author
- D. J. Henry
Description
The Effective Reader offers students step-by-step reading instruction, a wide range of practice and test materials, and a rich selection of readings from textbooks and other sources. The Effective Reader covers all the core topics at the 9th-12th grade level of developmental reading: vocabulary development, locations of main ideas, supporting details, outlines and concept maps, implied main ideas, transition words and patterns of organization, critical reading (inferences, purpose and tone, fact and opinion, argument), and the reading process.
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