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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809986103321

Autore

Gamel Amelia Leighton

Titolo

Help! my college students can't read : teaching vital reading strategies in the content areas / / Amelia Leighton Gamel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Pulishing Group, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4758-1458-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Disciplina

428.4071/1

Soggetti

Reading (Higher education)

Developmental reading

Study skills

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Active Reading; 2 Determining a Purpose; 3 Determining What's Important; 4 Developing Higher-Level Questions; 5 Making Connections; 6 Navigating Unknown Words; 7 Creating Visuals to Enhance Comprehension and Recall; 8Keeping It Real; References; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides simple, step-by-step ideas for introducing and embedding reading strategies within all content areas without sacrificing a lot of valuable class time. This easy-to-use resource will equip instructors to not only help their students be stronger readers in general, but to be stronger readers of content-area academic texts.