Reading for Thinking - Softcover

Flemming, Laraine E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618214313 ISBN 13: 9780618214310

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Academic), 2002

Synopsis

Incorporating a wealth of practice exercises and high-interest readings, Reading for Thinking focuses on improving reading skills at the "micro- level" and moving on to the "macro-level." Over half of the book is devoted to evaluating, drawing inferences, and identifying tone, bias, and purpose. The Sixth Edition continues to focus on developing students' comprehension and critical-thinking skills. Flemming uses a carefully designed sequence of explanations and exercises that allows students to approach critical reading as a natural extension of essential comprehension skills, rather than a discrete set of new strategies. Armed with the ability to both analyze and evaluate a writer's work, students apply those twin intellectual tools to Flemming's trademark high-interest readings to determine purpose, analyze evidence, detect bias, recognize tone, and compare opposing points of view.

About this title

Synopsis

The primary emphasis of Reading for Thinking is on bringing students into the realm of critical reading and thinking. Flemming presents critical reading as a coherent set of intellectual tools that can help students evaluate arguments, compare opposing points of view, and ultimately develop their own perspectives on current and controversial issues. Along with this integrated presentation of critical reading and thinking skills, Reading for Thinking has the two Flemming hallmarks: stimulating, informative readings and numerous exercises that give the students ample opportunity to review every skill and concept. It does more than teach students how to thoroughly process and evaluate the ideas of others, Reading for Thinking encourages student readers to think as deeply about their own perspectives on the world, as they do about the perspectives of others.

- Check Your Understanding: Section by chapter section, this feature encourages students to monitor their comprehension and rehearse what they have learned - Word Notes: This end-of-chapter feature, which deals with synonyms, word history, analogies, cliches, and loan words, helps expand vocabulary and makes word study an ongoing part of the course - New! End-of-chapter readings give students a chance to hone their skills in the context of longer reading selections - New! A section on rhetorical questions introduces students to one of the more subtle devices used in persuasive writing - New! An increased emphasis on textbook readings and how to respond to them

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Academic)
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618214313
• ISBN 13: 9780618214310
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 432