Reading and All That Jazz

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McGraw-Hill Companies,Incorporated, Jun 2, 2006 - Education - 564 pages
Designed to help students become jazzed about reading, this introductory-to-intermediate reading text provides motivating and engaging readings selected to grab the reader's attention. Reading and All That Jazz, Third Edition, also features clear explanations and a wide variety of well-developed practice exercises designed to provoke genuine thinking, interpretation, and even some improvisation on the part of the student and the instructor. The theme of jazz encourages a positive, exciting, personally involved approach to reading and learning.

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Contents

Introduction Your First Week in Class
2
Getting a Handle on College
6
Discovering Meaning through Structure
77
Copyright

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Peter Mather,Rita McCarthy
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About the author (2006)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleReading and All That Jazz
AuthorsPeter Mather, Rita McCarthy
Edition3, illustrated
PublisherMcGraw-Hill Companies,Incorporated, 2006
Original fromPennsylvania State University
DigitizedJan 15, 2010
ISBN007296281X, 9780072962819
Length564 pages
Subjects › 

Education / Educational Psychology
Language Arts & Disciplines / Reading Skills
Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric
Study Aids / Study & Test-Taking Skills
  
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