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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gamel, Amelia Leighton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading (Higher education).

Developmental reading.

Study skills.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-23888-1

1-4758-1458-5