Structured Reading

Description

• Twenty-nine reading selections, with six new for this edition, represent our desire to offer an instructive, stimulating balance of readings from books, magazines, newspapers, and textbooks in disciplines across the curriculum. The final mix represents both male and female writers, as well as writers from a variety of ethnic groups.

•  “Thinking: Getting Started” sections, another unique feature of Structured Reading, open Parts Two through Six to help students engage in predictive reading. This Seventh Edition features new, engaging posters, photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and other visuals to prepare students for the topics to come.

•  Exercises are deliberately structured to promote analytic and critical reasoning. Indeed, our structured sequences of exercises following every reading selection are the key feature that teachers and students have been praising from the first edition of Structured Reading: “Vocabulary,” “Central Theme and Main Ideas,” “Major Details,” “Inferences,” and “Reader’s Response.” New to this Seventh Edition is an expanded focus on “Critical Reading,” which now includes exercises on “The Author’s Strategies,” and “Summary” in addition to “Fact vs. Opinion.” All in all, the structured sequence presented here demands concentrated work in reading for literal meaning, for inferential meaning, and for critical thinking. This approach, used repeatedly, leads students to internalize successfully complex reading and thinking skills.

•  The answer options for our structured exercises may look to some like multiple-choice items, but the similarity stops there. Structured Reading exercises are unique, which can be seen as soon as anyone looks beneath the surface. We’ve written the incorrect answers (called “distracters”) to propel students into close reading and active analysis. They’re forced to marshal their higher-order reasoning powers to think through mental challenges. Students’ powers of persistence and focus can become habit when teachers require them not only to identify a correct answer (called “the key”) but also to analyze and articulate why other choices are incorrect.

•  Complete, authentic dictionary entries accompany each reading selection to help students tackle the more difficult words in the piece. This unique, popular feature of Structured Reading provides students hands-on experience with dictionary use. We have again been fortunate to offer entries from Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition. Our Appendix, “Guide to Dictionary Use,” helps students–in plain English–retrieve information from dictionary entries.

•  The book has six parts. Part One teaches the reading process and its college-level skills. Parts Two through Six contain reading selections with increasingly difficult readability levels (see the Instructor’s Edition of Structured Reading), and with short-to-longer selections within each part.

• For the first time, the book’s interior design is in full color, bringing the material to life and making the reading experience more engaging.
• Learning objectives have been added to the beginning of each chapter and reading selection, giving you a clear indication of what the main points are and what you are expected to learn. Now you have goals to keep in mind, which will help guide your reading.
• Icons are now included throughout the text, indicating where you can go for additional review and practice in MyReadingLab. These icons lead you to animations, audio files, and personalized practice with immediate feedback to enhance your learning experience and help you master the concepts presented in this book.
• We have added eight new reading selections for this edition of the text: Selection 3, ” ‘Freegans’ Salvage Food From the City’s Bountiful Garbage,” Selection 6,  “Ugly and Lovable,” Selection 10, “Divorcing Couples Seek Solace in Ring-Smashing Ceremonies,” Selection 14, “Waging War on Wrinkles,” Selection 15, “The Danger of Hoarding,” Selection 23, “Guns in Kids’ Bedrooms? Ohio town Approves,” Selection 26, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” and Selection 29, “Culture” from Essentials of Sociology. These new readings encompass a wide range of topics from dog abuse, to hoarding, to cultural issues. They come from a variety of sources such as the Internet, newspapers, books, and textbooks to give you experience reading different formats. 
• We have expanded Chapter 10: “What Are the Author’s Strategies?” It now includes sample paragraphs to illustrate an author’s five purposes for writing as well as additional practice exercises on purpose and tone. In addition, we have expanded Chapter 2 — “What is the Reading Process?” – by incorporating material from the “What is Reading On, Between, and Beyond the Lines?” from the previous edition.
• We have combined Selection 30, “Reading Charts, Graphs, Illustrations, and Pictures” with Chapter 7, “How Can Maps, Visuals, and Outlines Help with Reading?” This section now includes more practice with reading charts and graphs, which will aid you as you develop your skills in Chapter 7.
• We have added questions related to each reading selection in Parts Two through Six called “Thinking: Getting Started”. These questions serve as a springboard for thinking and discussing prior to reading; these questions will help you engage in predictive reading.
• In each of the reading selections, the more difficult vocabulary words have been boldfaced for the first time. This will help you identify words you need to understand and enable you to find the definition in the vocabulary list more quickly. 
•  Images now accompany each reading selection to illustrate the subject of the reading and make it more engaging.

Preface                                                                                                                            

Part 1  Skills for Reading                                                                           

Chapter 1  What Is Your Personal  Reading HISTory?              

Chapter 2  What Is the Reading Process?                                                                                                                    

Chapter 3  What Is the Role of “SQ3R”  When Reading to Study?      

Chapter 4  How Can I Improve My  Vocabulary?                                                                                           

Chapter 5  What Are “Central Theme”  and “Main Ideas”?                                                          

Chapter 6  What Are “Major Details”?                                                                                                                              

Chapter 7  How Can Maps, Outlines,  and Visuals Help with Reading?

Chapter 8  What Are “Inferences”?                                                                                                                                           

Chapter 9  What Is “Critical Reading”?                                                                                                                           

Chapter 10  Critical Reading: What Are  “The Author’s Strategies”?                                                                  

Chapter 11  Critical Reading: What Is  a “Summary”?                                                                                                  

Chapter 12  What Is “Reader’s Response”?

Answers to Activities in Part One                                                      

Part 2                                                                                                                       
Selection 1  A Real Loss by Fern Kupfer                                                                   

Vocabulary list with dictionary entries                                                                          

Exercises:

1A        Vocabulary                                                                                                    

1B        Central Theme and Main Ideas                                                                       

1C        Major Details                                                                                                

1D        Inferences                                                                                                   

1E         Critical Reading: Fact or Opinion                                                               

1F         Critical Reading: The Author’s Strategies                                                  

1G        Reader’s Process: Summarizing Your Reading                                          

1H        Reader’s Response: To Discuss or to Write About                                    

Selection 2  To Catch a Thief by Stephen Holt                                                                                      
*Selection 3  Freegans Salvage Food from the City’s Bountiful Garbage by Eliabeth Giegerich    

Selection 4  Seoul Searching by Rick Reilly                                                                                         
Selection 5  Darkness at Noon by Harold Krents                                                     
*Selection 6  Ugly and Lovable by Larry Levin                                                                 

Part 3                                                                                                                        

Selection 7  Summer by Jonathan Schwartz                                                                     

Selection 8  Brains the Ultimate Sex Appeal by Wendi C. Thomas                        

Selection 9  The Girl with the Large Eyes by Julius Lester Genes and Behavior: A Twin Legacy by Constance Holden                                                                                                

*Selection 10  Divorcing Couples Seek Solace in Ring-Smashing Ceremonies by Sandra Barron                                                          

Selection 11  Flour Children by Lexine Alpert

Selection 12  The Magic Words Are “Will You Help Me?” by Michael Ryan                                        

Part 4                                                                                                              

Selection 13  How to Stay Alive by Art Hoppe                                                    

*Selection 14  Waging War on Wrinkles by Jessica Dye

*Selection 15  The Danger of Hoarding by Joyce Cohen                                                            

Selection 16  Forty Acres and a Holiday  by Lisa Jones                                     

Selection 17  My Mother’s Blue Bowl  by Alice Walker                                    

Selection 18  From In Search of Bernabé  by Graciela Limón       

For courses in Fundamentals of Reading and College Reading.

Structured Reading is grounded in the theory that students learn best from guided, hands-on experience with complete, not partial, reading selections. This text approaches students with detailed instruction in the separate skills areas that assure movement to college-level reading abilities, followed by extensive, repeated practice found in a variety of essays from books, magazines, and texts.