Groundwork for College Reading with Phonics, 5/e

Groundwork for College Reading with Phonics, 5/e

Product details

  • Author: John Langan
  • SKU/ISBN: 978-1-59194-486-7
  • Year: 2017
  • Page count: 612
  • Reading level: 5-8
  • Lexile Level: 850L
  • Availability: In stock
$30.00

Overview

Featuring major chapter additions, freshened content, and enhanced visual appeal, this revised edition of Groundwork for College Reading with Phonics is ideal for students and adult learners in a very basic developmental reading or ESL course.

More information

Educators, please click here to request a desk copy.

Key Features of the Ten Steps Series

Focus on the basics.  The book is designed to explain, in a clear, step-by-step way, the essential elements of each skill. Many examples are provided to ensure that students understand each point. In general, the focus is on teaching the skills—not just on explaining them and not just on testing them.

Frequent practice and feedback.  Because abundant practice and careful feedback are essential to learning, this book includes numerous activities. Students can get immediate feedback on the practice exercises in Part One by turning to the limited answer key at the back of the book. The answers to the review and mastery tests in Part One, the reading questions in Part Two, and the relationships and combined-skills tests in Part Three are in the Instructor’s Edition and the Instructor's Manual.

High interest level.  Dull and unvaried readings and exercises work against learning. Students need to experience genuine interest and enjoyment in what they read. Teachers as well should be able to take pleasure in the selections, for their own good feeling about them can carry over favorably into class work. The readings in the book, then, have been chosen not only for the appropriateness of their reading level but also for their compelling content. They should engage students and teachers alike.

Ease of use.  The logical sequence in each chapter—from explanation to example to practice to review tests to mastery tests—helps make the skills easy to teach. The book’s organization into distinct parts also makes for ease of use. Within a single class, for instance, instructors  can work on a particular skill in Part One, review another skill with one or more mastery tests, and provide variety by having students read one of the selections in Part Two. The limited answer key at the back of the book also makes for versatility: the teacher can assign parts of some chapters for self-teaching. Finally, the mastery tests—each on its own tear-out page—and the combined-skills tests make it a simple matter for a teacher to test and evaluate student progress.

Integration of skills.  Students do more than learn the skills individually in Part One. They also learn to apply the skills together through the reading selections in Parts One and Two as well as the combined-skills tests in Part Three. They become effective readers and thinkers through repeated practice in applying a combination of skills.

Thinking activities.  Thinking activities—in the form of outlining, mapping, and summarizing—are a distinctive feature of the book. In addition, four discussion questions at the end of each reading selection encourage student reflection, as do the writing activities that are provided for each selection.

Available electronic resources. This text can be purchased with Ten Steps Plus, a subscription-based collection of digital materials including interactive exercises, mastery tests, assessments, bonus readings, instructional videos, eBooks* of the entire Ten Steps Series, and more than 100 Townsend Library titles. Click here to learn more about subscription options, including discounted digital/textbook bundles.

*eBooks are not included with Ten Steps Plus LE (Limited Edition).

Efficacy Report. Results from a study that examined the impact of the Townsend Press Ten Steps Series on students' reading skills in higher education developmental reading courses are available (full reportshort report). This study was conducted by an independent research firm.

Changes in the Fifth Edition

 
• A full-color design. Color has been carefully used throughout, not as window dressing but to add clarity and readability to the different parts of the book.
 
• Enhanced cartoons and other graphics. Because so many students today are visual learners, over fifty illustrations have been added to help introduce or reinforce points made in the book.
 
• New readings. Four new readings have been added to the book. In addition, five other readings have been updated.
 
• Five relationships tests have been added to strengthen students’ reading and thinking skills.
 
• Added combined-skills tests.
 
• An expanded offer for free books.
 
• And a freshening of practice materials throughout.
 
 Ten Steps Plus, an enhanced collection of digital resources, can be purchased in a bundle with this book at a significant discount.

Table of Contents

 

Preface: To the Instructor

How to Become a Better Reader and Thinker

PART ONE
Phonics and Word Parts

1     Consonants
        Reading: The Struggle Continues    Juan Angel 
        Mastery Tests

2     Vowels
        Reading: A Lesson in Love    Casey Hawley
        Mastery Tests

3     Syllables
        Reading: Friendship and Living Longer    Vicky Chan
        Mastery Tests
 
4     Word Parts
        Reading: From Horror to Hope    Phany Sarann 
        Mastery Tests


PART TWO
Ten Steps to College Reading 

1     Getting Started
       Reading: A Parent Gets a Reading Lesson    Lucia Herndon
       Mastery Tests

2     Dictionary Use  
       Reading: Discovering Words    Malcolm X
       Mastery Tests

3     Vocabulary in Context
       Reading: One Less Sucker Lives    Jeanne R. Smith 
       Mastery Tests
 
4     Main Ideas
       Reading: Classroom Notetaking    Robin White
       Mastery Tests

5     Supporting Details 
       Reading: Winning the Job Interview Game    Marcia Prentergast 
       Mastery Tests
 
6     Finding Main Ideas
       Reading: Learning Survival Skills    Jean Coleman
       Mastery Tests
 
7     Signal Words I
       Reading: Migrant Child to College Woman    Maria Cardenas 
       Mastery Tests

8     Signal Words II
       Reading: Life Over Death    Bill Broderick
       Mastery Tests

9     Inferences 
       Reading: Dare to Think Big    Dr. Ben Carson
       Mastery Tests
 
10   The Basics of Argument 
       Reading: The Shocking State of the American Diet    Adam Taylor 
       Mastery Tests


PART THREE
Ten Reading Selections 
  1. 1.  Learning to Read: The Marvel Kretzmann Story    Mary Sherry
  2. 2.  The Blind Vet    Gail Hoffman
  3. 3.  The Fist, the Clay, and the Rock    Donald Holland
  4. 4.  It's Not My Fault    Roger Kennedy
  5. 5.  Joe Davis: A Cool Man    Beth Johnson
  6. 6.  Rosa: A Success Story   Edward Patrick
  7. 7.  The Lady, or the Tiger?   Frank R. Stockton
  8. 8.  Dawn's Story    Nancy Kerns
  9. 9.  Knowledge Is Power   Anna-Maria Petricic
  10. 10. What I Believe    John Langan 
 
PART FOUR
Relationships and Combined Skills
    1. Relationship Tests
    2. Combined Skills Tests

    APPENDIXES 
            Pronunciation Guide 
            Writing Assignments
            Limited Answer Key 

     
    Acknowledgments
    Index
    Reading Performance Chart

    Supplementary Materials

     

    Print Supplement

     
    Like all Ten Steps texts, this edition features an annotated Instructor’s Editionwhich is identical to the student book except that it provides answers to all the practices and tests. In addition, the Instructor's Edition includes useful hints for teachers as well instructive annotation to help scaffold lessons. No other book on the market has such detailed and helpful annotations.
     

    Digital Supplements

     
    1. A downloadable Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank includes suggestions for teaching, a model syllabus, and readability levels for the text and the reading selections. The test bank contains four additional mastery tests for each of the skills chapters in Part I—all on letter-sized sheets so they can be copied easily for use with students. This resource is available to all instructors in the Learning Center
     
    2. Downloadable PowerPoint presentations have been crafted to teach key skills and concepts directly to students. These PowerPoints are available free to instructors in the Learning Center
     
    3. Ten Steps Plus is a powerful subscription-based collection of digital resources for your college reading or college readiness program. Based on the acclaimed pedagogy of the Ten Steps SeriesTen Steps Plus is a digital suite of exercises, mastery tests, assessments, and instructional videos; a Skills Bank; a Readings Bank; and eBooks* of the entire Ten Steps Series and more than 100 Townsend Library titlesNoteStudents must have a paid subscription to access Ten Steps Plus materials.  Click here to learn more about subscription options, including discounted digital/textbook bundles.  
    * eBooks are not included with Ten Steps Plus LE (Limited Edition). 
     
     

    To Obtain Supplements

     

    Print supplements can be obtained quickly by calling Townsend Press (1-800-772-6410), by sending a fax on school letterhead to 1-800-225-8894, or by e-mailing Customer Service at cs@townsendpress.com. Digital supplements are free to educators with a valid instructor account in the Learning Center. Get yours here