Today's Elementary Social Studies

Education & Teaching

Hennings, George

Banich, Serafina Fiore

Hennings, Dorothy Grant

Schools & Teaching

Harpercollins College Div

A unique and practical word building primer that offers a strategic, word study approach to vocabulary development with an emphasis on helping users perceive connections among words and elements within words. The book and related exercises provide specific strategies for figuring out the meanings of unfamiliar words and discovering relationships among words based on the affixes and roots that comprise them. Provides strategies and exercises for understanding words through their origins, context clues and word elements including prefixes, suffixes and basic roots. For individuals with an interest in words and their development, as well as those wishing to build their vocabulary using a more productive, active and practical approach than memorization.

Vocabulary Growth: Strategies for College Word Study

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Pearson

This book is designed to help users develop specific comprehension strategies for reading and understanding college-level materials. It uses a systematic approach for helping them strengthen such basic reading strategies as grasping the main idea of paragraphs and the thesis of an article, using clue words to anticipate, thinking critically, studying for tests, and interpreting charts and graphs. And, it features culturally significant, interesting selections from a broad range of discipline-specific textbooks, popular books, and magazines for practicing those strategies and techniques. A variety of pre- and post-reading exercises accompanying each selection. Getting Ready to Read. Using Context Clues. Using Word-Structure Clues. Grasping the Main Idea. Grasping the Thesis, or Main Idea, of an Entire Selection. Relating Main Ideas and Details. Using Clue Words to Follow an Author's Thoughts. Critical Thinking: Applying, Comparing, Inferring, Concluding, Judging. Understanding and Studying For College Tests: SQ3R, Highlighting, Charting, Webbing, Outlining, Summarizing, Remembering. Adjusting Your Concentration Level and Reading Rate. Interpreting Tables, Graphs, and Diagrams. Understanding Opinions and Persuasive Writing. Understanding Definitions and Explanations. Understanding Descriptions and Narratives. Interpreting Style, Tone, and Mood. For anyone who wants to develop or strengthen reading and comprehension skills for college-level materials.

Reading with Meaning: Strategies for College Reading (5th Edition)

Pearson College Div

Reading with Meaning offers users an opportunity to improve their reading skills, as well as strategies important for success in any arena. It provides culturally significant, engaging selections from literature, popular books, and magazines that readers typically encounter daily. This book builds word power by teaching vocabulary skills, and provides information about such basic strategies as grasping the main idea of paragraphs and the thesis of an article, using clue words to anticipate meaning, thinking critically, studying for tests, and interpreting charts and graphs. Readings cover a range of topics, including history, psychology, economics, sociology, career planning, biology, geology, business, and literature, including poetry. An excellent resource for those involved in Continuing Education or ESL classes, this book is also a useful tool for anyone interested in improving their reading and comprehension skills.

Reading With Meaning: Strategies for College Reading

PRENTICE/HALL

Today's Elementary School Studies

Houghton Mifflin School

Communication in action: Teaching the language arts

Houghton/Mifflin

Communication in Action: teaching the Literature-Based Language Arts

Communication in Action: Teaching the Literature-Based Language Arts

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

Today's elementary social studies (Rand McNally education series)

Rand McNally College Pub. Co

Words, sounds, & thoughts: More activities to enrich children's communication skills

Citation Press

Written Expression in the Language Arts: Ideas and Skills

Teachers College Pr

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