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Annotated Instructor's Edition for New Worlds: An Introduction to College Reading

5th Edition

0077531442 · 9780077531447

By Janet Elder

The new fifth edition of New Worlds: An Introduction to College Reading continues to offer a clear, effective, and systematic way to approach college reading assignments. New Worlds introduces the skills needed to master college-level reading, and s… Read More

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To the Instructor

To the Student

PART ONE: A NEW WORLD OF LEARNING: READING AND STUDYING IN COLLEGE

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO READING AND STUDYING: BEING SUCCESSFUL IN COLLEGE

NEW INFORMATION AND SKILLS

What do you need to know about the reading and studying process?

What are the keys to studying college textbooks?

What is comprehension monitoring and why is it important?

How can you be selective as you read and study?

How can you organize as you read and study?

How can you rehearse information to remember it?

What is the SQ3R study system?

How can you adjust your reading rates when you study?

How can you improve your reading speed?

What do you need to do to be successful in college?

Why is it important to set goals?

What are learning preferences?

Chapter Review Cards

How can you find information online?

READINGS

Selection 1-1: "A Mother's Answer" from The Big Picture: Getting Perspective on What's Really Important" by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis (Nonfiction)

*Selection 1-2: "Fire Up Your Memory with Proven Strategies!" from Peak Performance: Success in College and Beyond" by Sharon Ferrett(Student Success)

*Selection 1-3: "The When and How of Preparing for Tests" from P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life by Robert S. Feldman(Study Skills)

CHAPTER 2: DEVELOPING A COLLEGE-LEVEL VOCABULARY: A NEW WORLD OF WORDS

NEW INFORMATION AND SKILLS

Why is it important to develop a college-level vocabulary?

What are context clues and how do you use them?

What are word-structure clues and how do you use them?

How do you use a dictionary pronunciation key?

What is figurative language and how do you interpret figures of speech?

Other things to keep in mind when developing your college-level vocabulary.

The most common and helpful roots, prefixes, and suffixes in English come from Latin and ancient Greek.

A word’s etymology (origin and history) indicates the word parts it was created from, including Latin or

Certain punctuation marks in a sentence can signal a definition.

Chapter Review Cards

Test Your Understanding: Using Context Clues, Part 1

Test Your Understanding: Using Context Clues, Part 2

Test Your Understanding: Using Word-Structure Clues, Part 1

Test Your Understanding: Using Word-Structure Clues, Part 2

Test Your Understanding: Interpreting Figurative Language, Part 1

Test Your Understanding: Interpreting Figurative Language, Part 2

READINGS

*Selection 2-1: "Overwhelming Obstacles" from Peak Performance: Success in College and Beyond by Sharon Ferrett (Student Suscess>

*Selection 2-2: "Autism: A Public Health Emergency" from selected Internet Sources (Public Health)

*Selection 2-3: "Thinking in Pictures: Autism and Visual Thought" from Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin

PART TWO: A NEW WORLD OF UNDERSTANDING: USING CORE COMPREHENSION SKILLS WHEN YOU READ COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS

CHAPTER 3: DETERMINING THE TOPIC

What is the topic of a paragraph, and why is it important?

What are the clues for determining the topic of a paragraph?

Clue 1: Look for a Heading or Title That Indicates the Topic

Clue 2: Look for a Word, Name, or Phrase in the Paragraph That Appears in Special Print

Clue 3: Look for a Word, Name, or Phrase That Is Repeated throughout the Paragraph

Clue 4: Look for a Word, Name, or Phrase Referred to throughout the Paragraph by Pronouns or Other Words

Other things to keep in mind when determining the topic

You should use a name, word, or phrase, but never a sentence, to express the topic. This means you must know the difference between a phrase and a sentence.

You must know the difference between “general” and specific.”

A longer passage has an overall topic.

Checkpoint: Determining the Topic

Chapter Review Cards

Test Your Understanding, Determining the Topic, Part One

Test Your Understanding: Determining the Topic, Part Two

*Selection 9-1: "Taboos and Myths about Conflict and Anger" from Marriages and Families: Intimacy, Diversity, and Strengths by George Johnson (Marriage and Family)

Selection 9-2: "Planet Under Stress: Curbing Population Growth" from The Living World: Basic Concepts by George Johnson (Biology)

*Selection 9-3: "For Better or Worse: Divorce" from Human Development by Diane Papalia, Sally Olds, and Ruth Feldman (Human Development)

PART FOUR: A NEW WORLD OF STUDYING: EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT STUDY TECHNIQUES

CHAPTER 10: APPROACHING COLLEGE READING AND STUDYING

NEW INFORMATION AND SKILLS

What is the three-step process for studying college textbooks?

Step 1: Prepare to Read

Step 2: Ask and Answer Questions to Guide Your Reading

Step 3: Review by Rehearsing Your Answers

What are textbook features?

Chapter Introductions and Chapter Objectives

Chapter Outlines

Vocabulary Aids and Glossaries

Boxes

Chapter Summaries

Study Questions and Activities

Other Textbook features

How can you interpret visuals and graphic aids?

How can you interpret visual aids?

Photographs

Diagrams

Maps

Cartoons

How can you interpret graphic aids?

Line graphs

Pie charts

Bar graphs

Flowcharts

Tables

Other things to keep in mind when studying textbook material.

You will benefit from examining the features in all of your textbooks at the beginning of the semester.

Chapter Review Cards

Test Your Understanding: Interpreting Graphic Aids

READING

Selection 10-1: "Living with Stress" from P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life by Robert Feldman (Student Success)

CHAPTER 11: PREPARING FOR TESTS: STUDY-READING, REHEARSAL, AND MEMORY

NEW INFORMATION AND SKILLS

How are rehearsal and memory related?

How can you underline, highlight, and annotate your textbooks?

How can you take notes from textbooks?

Guidelines for Outlining

Guidelines for Mapping

Guidelines for Summarizing

Guidelines for following directions

Other things to keep in mind as you prepare for tests by applying

Core Comprehension Skills

When you study, choose the study techniques (underlining, highlighting, annotating, outlining, mapping, summarizing, making review cards or test review sheets) that (a) are appropriate to the type of material you are studying, (b) correspond with how you will e tested on the material, and (c) best suit your learning style.

Learn how to handle outline, summary, and mapped notes questions on standardized reading tests.

Chapter Review Cards

READING

Selection 11-1: "Information Technology, The Internet, and You" from Computing Essentials by Timothy O'Leary and Linda O'Leary (Information Technology)

ESSENTIAL SKILLS REVIEW TESTS

Introduction to Essential Skills Review Tests

Essential Skills Review Test 1

Essential Skills Review Test 2

Essential Skills Review Test 3

Essential Skills Review Test 4

Essential Skills Review Test 5

Essential Skills Review Test 6

Essential Skills Review Test 7

Essential Skills Review Test 8

Essential Skills Review Test 9

Essential Skills Review Test 10

Appendix 1 Glossary of Key Terms

Appendix 2 Master Vocabulary List

INDEX

Instructor's Guide

The new fifth edition of New Worlds: An Introduction to College Reading continues to offer a clear, effective, and systematic way to approach college reading assignments. New Worlds introduces the skills needed to master college-level reading, and shows how to apply those skills throughout the college curriculum and beyond.

More than 150 new and updated example and exercise paragraphs throughout the book.

A new, short section in Chapter 1 that tells how to locate and evaluate material online.

Three additional Test Your Understanding vocabulary exercises in Chapter 2, one each on using context clues, word-structure clues, and interpreting figurative language.

Seven new Checkpoint exercises, one each in chapters 3-9 that check to be sure students understand the chapter skills before applying them in the Test Your Understanding exercises.

Coverage of all the skills necessary for reading in college, including vocabulary, comprehension, critical reading and thinking, and study techniques.

Eleven new reading selections with accompanying activities, exercises, and quizzes.

Nine updated chapter reading selections with accompanying activities, exercises,and quizzes:
1.2: Fire Up Your Memory with Proven Strategies (Student Success)
1.3: The When and How of Preparing for Tests (Study Skills)
3.1: Parenting Style: Does It Matter? (Human Development)
3.2: Giving a Speech? If Youre Nervous, Youre Normal! (Speech)
4.1: Whos the Boss? Leaders, Managers, and Leadership Styles (Business)
5.1: Two Artistic Tributes: The Vietnam Memorial and the AIDS Quilt (Art Appreciation)
6.1: Hold It! You Can Recycle That! Recycling: A Twenty-First Century Necessity (Environmental Science)
7.2: The Right to Vote: Valued but Underutilized (Government)
8.3: You? A Millionaire? Yes! (Business)

All new examples of the chapter features presented in Chapter 10.

New Assignment Sheet and Progress Record

New Reading Skills and Competencies Chart

Ten new Essential Skills Review Tests

Expanded sections on interpreting visual aids in Chapter 10, as well as new photographs, cartoons, and other visuals throughout the text.

An extensive Online Learning Center at http://www.mhhe.com/cortina featuring extra quizzes, weblinks, and supplemental reading selections.

Connect Reading 3.0 supports complete reading curriculum from reading skills to active reading strategies using adaptive technology to address a wide range of reading levels. This total course solution provides revolutionary learning technology to better support course redesign with several toolsets.

Systematic Approach: New Worlds offers a systematic approach to essential comprehension skills. Part II (Chapters 3-7) presents basic comprehension skills that students then practice and use cumulatively throughout the text (i.e., scaffolding). This thorough, logical approach helps students to bootstrap themselves into comprehension of textbook material. Part III (Chapters 8-9) focuses on reading and thinking critically. These two parts comprise the important comprehension core of the text. Part I (Chapters 1-2) focuses on getting a successful start in college and developing a college-level vocabulary. Part IV (Chapters 10-11) introduces basic study skills.

Competencies for State Reading Tests: New Worlds addresses the four essential competency areas on most state reading tests (such as the Texas THEA Test and the Florida CLAST Test):

Vocabulary Skills

Basic Comprehension Skills

Critical Reading Skills

Study Skills

Clear explanations of each skill and understandable examples.

Scores of textbook excerpts for application of reading and study skills.

Its Your Call feature in Chapter 1 that refers students to more complete discussionsof study skills and test-preparation skills that appear later in the book, should they wish to explore them in depth at the beginning of the semester.

An extensive, thorough, 7-chapter Comprehension Core: basic comprehension skills (Chapters 3 to 7) and critical reading and thinking skills (Chapters 8 and 9).

Approximately 50 brief embedded exercises for on-the-spot application of new skills presented in the chapters.

Other Things to Keep in Mind, a short section in each chapter that presents additionalpointers and supplemental information related to the chapter skill(s).

A Chapter Review Card activity for every chapter.

Twenty-one Test Your Understanding Exercises in Chapters 2 to 10. Some contain objective (multiple-choice) items; others require fuller written responses.

Twenty-seven full-length Reading Selections (three in each of the first nine chapters).

Two Chapter-length Reading Selections (in Chapters 10 and 11).

Feature Category/Need :
Feature : Comprehension and Vocabulary Quizzes for the 27 reading selections in Ch. 1 to 9. These 20-item quizzes contain 4 sections:
Comprehension: 5 types of questions an instructor would expect students to be able to answer after reading this selection.
Vocabulary-in-Context: 5 questions that test the ability to use context clues to determine the meaning of words.
Word Structure: 5 questions that test the ability to use word-structure clues to help determine meaning. Students learn the meaning of the root word and apply the meaning to other words with a similar root.
Reading Skills Application: 5 questions test the ability to apply various reading skills to material in this selection. These questions appear on standardized reading tests, exit tests, and state-mandated basic skills tests.

For every chapter reading selection, Annotation Practice Exercises and Respond in Writing exercises that integrate writing and reading by calling for written responses and the formulation of the selections overall main idea.

Twenty-question Practice Chapter Quiz for the chapter-length 11-1 reading selection, Information Technology, the Internet, and You. This provides studentswith an opportunity to test their comprehension and retention of material presented in the selection.

One or more websites for each reading selection so students can read more about the selections topic or author, along with suggested keywords to use with online search engines.

Cumulative review and continued application of skills taught in the comprehension core.

Presentation of vocabulary and study skills as they relate to learning from college textbooks and other college-level materials.

Comprehension monitoring questions for reading comprehension, critical reading, and critical thinking are featured throughout the book in the margins.

Coverage of the skills typically included on standardized reading tests, exitstest, and state-mandated reading competency tests.