| Synopsis: |
Essential Reading Skills is designed to improve students' reading and thinking skills through concise skill instruction, extensive guided practice, skill application, assessment, and feedback. The text is organized into ten chapters, each focusing on a specific reading and thinking skill. Each chapter includes skill instruction, practice exercises, quizzes, and mastery tests. Because the text is brief and concise, students focus on the most essential college reading skills. Essential Reading Skills, the lower-level text in a two-book series, is intended for the 6th to 8th grade reading level. |