Improve Your Reading by
Discover a practical solution to your reading frustrations, with IMPROVE YOUR READING. Written by bestselling author and education advocate Ron Fry, this book avoids gimmicks and tricks in favor of proven strategies that will help you better retain and comprehend what you've read in any textbook, in any course, at any academic level.
Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day by
Reading Comprehension in 20 Minutes a Day enhances your critical reading skills in just 20 short lessons. Learn to dissect a story, find the main idea, and draw conclusions through study of practical exercises.
Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills by
Carefully explains and illustrates ten key reading skills that are widely recognized to be essential for literal and critical comprehension. Provides activities and reading selections to help you practice and master those skills.
Mindscapes by
Developed for students at the 10-12 reading level, MINDSCAPES: CRITICAL READING SKILLS AND STRATEGIES, 2E helps students become stronger readers based on how the brain best processes and learns information.
Building Vocabulary Skills by 
501 Reading Comprehension by
PRINT: The newly revised and updated 501 Reading Comprehension Questions offers the most extensive and varied practice for all types of questions students might face on standardized and in-class tests. Beginning with the basics--questions that test basic vocabulary in context--the book progresses into tougher concepts like identifying details and facts, choosing main ideas, making inferences, and interpreting texts. With 501 Reading Comprehension Questions, students will learn to develop expert reading strategies, understand how to read faster and with greater comprehension, overcome reading anxiety, and even increase their appreciation of reading for pleasure. This book's unique step-by-step approach provides: - Graduated coverage that moves from the basics to more advanced reading - High-interest reading passages - Self-paced practice - Detailed answer explanations - Access to a free online practice test with instant scoring
Why I Read by
PRINT: "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished literary magazines in the country, The Threepenny Review, to describe her love of literature. As Lesser writes in her prologue, "Reading can result in boredom or transcendence, rage or enthusiasm, depression or hilarity, empathy or contempt, depending on who you are and what the book is and how your life is shaping up at the moment you encounter it."Here the reader will discover a definition of literature that is as broad as it is broad-minded. In addition to novels and stories, Lesser explores plays, poems, and essays along with mysteries, science fiction, and memoirs. As she examines these works from such perspectives as "Character and Plot," "Novelty," "Grandeur and Intimacy," and "Authority," Why I Read sparks an overwhelming desire to put aside quotidian tasks in favor of reading. Lesser's passion for this pursuit resonates on every page, whether she is discussing the book as a physical object or a particular work's influence. "Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different," she writes. "It can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present, and it can help you realize that your present will someday be someone else's past. This may be disheartening, but it can also be strangely consoling at times."A book in the spirit of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Elizabeth Hardwick's A View of My Own,Why I Read is iconoclastic, conversational, and full of insight. It will delight those who are already avid readers as well as neophytes in search of sheer literary fun.
Webster's New World Essential Vocabulary by
EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY FOR BETTER TEST SCORES AND BETTER COMMUNICATION You probably can't learn all the hundreds of thousands of words in the English language;but you can learn those difficult words you're most likely to need to know. If you want to increase your vocabulary for standardized tests or just better communication, Webster's New World Essential Vocabulary is the only tool you need.
Reading, Writing and Reasoning by
"A concise and useful guide, which provides an overview of the skills necessary to good reviewing ... Dealing clearly with traditional sources such as books and journals alongside recent developments such as wikis, blogs, and other online material, this handbook provides students with not only the basics, but guidance on the evolving issues in research dissemination and literature reviewing."
Improve your Speed Reading Skills by
Improve Your Speed Reading Skills and breeze through books, newspapers, textbooks, reports, webpages _ whatever you need to read, however you want to read it.
