Breaking Through provides instruction and practice on the reading and study skills necessary to make students successful, independent college learners.
The use of actual college textbook passages offers realistic and immediate modeling and application of college study and reading skills. Students apply the skill being taught to reading short textbook passages and then go on to use multiple skills on the longer selections that conclude most chapters.
Features
- The majority of reading selections are drawn from freshman-level college textbooks to prepare students for the type of reading they will do in their other courses.
- The longer reading selections at the end of each chapter are at three different reading levels to offer instructors the ability to adjust reading assignments to their students' skill levels.
- Abundant exercises offer practice in the reading skills most essential for understanding and retaining the material in college texts.
- Four-color design makes the text visually appealing and easy to use.
- “Everyday Reading Skills” gives tips and practice on how to research the Internet and how to read newspapers, magazines, advertisements, reference materials, fiction and nonfiction, and workplace mail.
- “Reader's Tips Boxes” condense advice for students into practical hints for quick reference. Many of these boxes focus on effective techniques for reading in different disciplines.
- “Collaborative Problem Solving” offers four different questions at the end of each chapter for students to brainstorm ideas, think critically, reflect on chapter instruction, and present a response together to the class.
- “Explore the Net” exercises follow each of the three longer reading selections in each chapter. These exercises encourage research on topics related to the longer reading specific Web Sites for doing so.
New to this Edition
- “Reading Case Books” give students a grasp of how different academic disciplines approach a topic. Two “reading across the curriculum” casebooks on the topics of happiness and intelligence offer readings from psychology, philosophy, sociology, health, communication, and business.
- Increased Emphasis on Writing. The post-reading apparatus for the longer reading selections now includes a “Think and Write” activity.
- Fourteen new and longer textbook selections are accompanied by comprehension, vocabulary enrichment, Explore the Net, and Collaborative Problem Solving activities.
- Brief Introductions to the Longer Textbook Selections pique student interest and activate schema, helping to improve comprehension.
