CHANGING TIMES toward an integrated approach to reading

• Main Authors: Levine, Lewis (Author), Hughey, Lucinda S (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall 1985
• Subjects: College readers
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• Physical Description: xiii, 226 pages illustrations 28 cm
• ISBN: 0131281828

Changing Times is a reading text designed to help students acquire the reading, study, and critical thinking skills necessary for success in college level work. The book introduces selected skills through a carefully se quenced approach: each chapter builds on and reinforces skills, concepts, and vocabulary presented in preceding chapters. The various skills pre- sented within each chapter also serve to complement the themes and other skills introduced in the same lesson. Among its many features, the book: • Presents an integrated approach to the teaching of reading both in terms of thematic content and skills development. Exposes students to a variety of rhetorical styles. • Includes many types of writing-humor, satire, short stories, poems, song lyrics-by well-known authors. • Presents topics likely to be encountered in various academic disciplines that are provocative and likely to stimulate active class discussion. • Offers varied types of exercises that emanate naturally from the readings themselves. As students gain in confidence and proficiency, the exer. cises become more sophisticated and challenging. • Helps students develop a variety of strategies for understanding unfamiliar vocabulary.