Reading and All That Jazz : Tuning Up Your Reading, Thinking, and Study Skills

Mather, Peter; McCarthy, Rita

ISBN 10: 007351358X / ISBN 13: 9780073513584

Editore: McGraw Hill, 2015

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• Titolo: Reading and All That Jazz : Tuning Up Your Reading, Thinking, and Study Skills
• Editore: McGraw Hill
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 007351358X
• ISBN 13: 9780073513584
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: good

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Riassunto

Together, Reading and All That Jazz content, the author-created teaching resources, and Connect Reading (a state-of-the-art learning technology product) represent a cohesive instructional framework to accelerate college readiness. Reading and All That Jazz, an introductory-to-intermediate reading text, motivates and engages readers with contemporary and relevant readings while building the essential reading skills and vocabulary needed for literal and critical comprehension. With multiple practice opportunities and an adaptive learning plan via Connect Reading, Reading and All That Jazz provides for genuine thinking, assessment, and interpretation.

Informazioni sugli autori

Dr. Mather earned his B.A. in Government from the University of the Redlands, his M.A. in African Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, his M.A. in Reading from California State Univeristy, Los Angeles, and his Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Southern California. He has taught reading at the secondary, adult-education, and community-college levels for over twenty years. He has published articles in the Journal of Reading.

Ms. McCarthy earned a B.A. in Sociology and History from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in Education from Arizona State University. She has taught at the elememtary, secondary, adult-education, and community-college levels for over twenty years. For the past ten years, she has taught developmental reading and E.S.L. classes at Glendale Community College. Ms. McCarthy has published articles in professional journals and other media on the use of bibliotherapy. She has also published reading lists for beginning and remedial readers and is a reading specialist.