"TEN STEPS TO IMPROVING COLLEGE READING SKILLS, Sixth Edition, will help you become a better reader and a stronger thinker. The book carefully explains and illustrates ten key reading skills that are widely recognized to be essential for literal and critical comprehension. It then provides numerous high-quality activities and high-interest reading selections to help you practice and master those skills." (Book Cover).

CONTENTS

Part One: Reading and Writing Skills

1. Vocabulary development for reading and writing Mastery Tests

2. Main ideas in reading Mastery Tests

3. Supporting details in reading Mastery Tests

4. Main ideas and supporting details in writing Mastery Tests

5. Understanding the writing process Mastery Tests

6. Relationships in reading Mastery Tests

7. Relationships in writing Mastery Tests

8. More relationships in reading Mastery Tests

9. More relationships in writing Mastery Tests

10. Inferences in reading and writing Mastery Tests

11. Longer selections in reading and writing Mastery Tests

Part Two: Fifteen Selections for Readers and Writers

1. The Yellow Ribbon / Pete Hamill

2. Adult Children at Home / Marilyn Mack

3. Rowing the Bus / Paul Logan

4. All Washed Up? / Sara Hansen

5. The Scholarship Jacket / Marta Salinas

6. Taming the Anger Monster / Anne Davidson

7. All the Good Things / Sister Helen Mrosla

8. Shame / Dick Gregory

9. "Extra Large, Please" / Alice M. Davies

10. A Change of Attitude / Grant Berry

11. Abusive Relationships Among the Young / Miriam Hill

12. A door Swings Open / Roxanne Black

13. A Drunken Ride, a Tragic Aftermath / Theresa Conroy and Christine M. Johnson

14. Migrant Child to College Woman / Maria Cardenas

15. Students in Shock / John Kellmayer and Alina Wyden

Reading level 7-11.