Building Bridges: A Thematic Approach to College Reading & Writing provides a complete process of research-based instruction that fully integrates reading and writing. This volume follows the prereading, during-reading, and postreading strategies that many scholars and practitioners have advocated and proven to be an effective reading/teaching tool. This book also offers comprehensive exercises for vocabulary words, which is essential for improving reading comprehension. Articles are drawn from local newspapers and magazines which build the connection from the readers' cultural experiences to texts, providing a reading/writing scaffold to stabilize the students' fundamental skills whereby they become self-supporting in college.Building Bridges features:
Prereading - assists the student to interact with the reading material
Vocabulary in Context -; familiarizes the student with speaking and thinking
The Reading Process - outlines topics, main ideas, details of each reading, open-ended questions, etc.
Postreading - addresses how the reader can make connections from reading to writing
Writing a Summary - allows students to utilize their writing abilities to communicate their understanding of the text
Application - journal writing helps students process information from the text to develop their awareness
Building Critical Thinking - students are asked to develop an outline consisting of an introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph
Grammar Practice via Internet - presents links to websites designed for students to research grammar components related to the text
Building Bridges : A Thematic Approach to College Reading AND Writing
Description
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Unit 1: Starting Out
Chapter 1: Breaking Ground
Chapter 2: Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes
Unit 2: Home and Family
Chapter 3: My Two Lives
Chapter 4: Life's Travels for a Father and a Son
Unit 3: People and Society
Chapter 5: Finding a Home at last
Chapter 6: Immigration Stories, from Shadows to Spotlight
Unit 4: Food and Health
Chapter 7: City Menu Put on Diet
Chapter 8: Schools' Toughest Test: Cooking
Unit 5: Language Acquisition and Classroom Interaction
Chapter 9: Children Construct Grammars
Chapter 10: Rapport-building Devices in a Teacher-student Interaction
Unit 6: Technology
Chapter 11: Tech Targets
Chapter 12: You're Being Watched
Unit 7: Moving Forward
Chapter 13: Making Waves at the Seaport
Chapter 14: After 20 Years, Is the Website about to Become Extinct?