Read to Succeed: A Thematic Approach to Academic Reading, 3rd edition

For courses in Developmental Reading (9-12 grade level).

An engaging, thematic journey that sparks academic curiosity

Read to Succeed: A Thematic Approach to Academic Reading engages students in academic reading, and builds background knowledge through its thematic organization around nine academic disciplines. David Rothman and Jilani Warsi offer an abundance of readings, drawn from a variety of sources – everything from textbooks to blogs – giving students multiple opportunities to build reading skills through discussion, writing, and vocabulary building. Now in its Third Edition, Read to Succeed spurs developmental readers to become active readers and fosters intellectual inquiry through an exploration of contemporary themes.

Also available with MyReadingLab™

MyReadingLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them develop their reading skills and promotes transference of those skills to college-level work. Full-length readings and assignments from the text are available in the etext version of MyReadingLab, strengthening the connection between the classroom and work done outside of class.

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Focus on Academic Disciplines

• NEW! A “Contemporary Issues in the Discipline” section has been added to each chapter, featuring videos of lectures from professionals in the discipline. After reading a brief contextual introduction in the text, students are prompted to watch an online video lecture and take notes. Then they are prompted to read the speech transcript of the talk, provided in their text, before engaging in class discussions with the help of critical-thinking questions. This feature culminates by asking students to conduct mock interviews with the featured speaker.

• Each chapter takes students on a journey of discovery, opening their minds to new territories of knowledge and fresh ways to interact with ideas and concepts.

• Each chapter contains a “Skill Focus" section that highlights key reading skills, such as main idea, patterns of organization, or argument.

• Biographical Profiles highlight well-known figures in each academic area. In every chapter, students will have the opportunity to learn about a famous figure and complete online research on another prominent person in the field.

• Interview with a Professional allows students to hear from professionals who majored in various academic fields and who are now successful in their careers. Content-based reading is critical to gaining a deeper knowledge of the issues related to academic major areas. Students will read interviews from such professionals and learn about how they managed their successful journey from college to the working world. Students will also have the opportunity to do Internet research on careers related to each academic discipline.

• Textbook Applications are available in every chapter and contain an extended authentic textbook reading from an introductory text. The textbook content reflects the academic discipline focus of the chapter. Students will learn how to navigate a textbook chapter and be given ample practice to check their comprehension and reading skills with questions following each textbook chapter.

Opportunities for Further Thematic Engagement

• Debate Topics provide instructors with the option of organizing lively class debates around provocative questions and readings to stimulate student interest in each academic subject area. Class debates are the perfect forum for the free expression of diverse opinions on controversial topics.

• NEW! A stronger connection between reading and writing is made. This edition integrates more writing activities and introduces a student blog feature – Writing on The Wall – which prompts students to post written responses in reaction to the text's thematic content, and to read and respond to the ideas of their classmates.

• NEW! More than 20 new readings – including memoir excerpts, online articles, more engaging textbook excerpts, newspaper articles, and transcripts from popular online lectures, among others – have been added.

• A multitude of readings–five to seven per chapter–provides opportunities for students to master key reading skills. These selections are from a variety of genres, including magazines, newspapers, textbooks, literature, blogs, and video transcripts. This Third Edition contains more than 20 new readings, which reflect cutting-edge trends across academic fields.

• Further Explorations are suggested resources – offered at the end of each chapter – with a list of books, movies, and websites to inspire further exploration of each academic area.

• A critical reading skill focus is integrated into each chapter, so that students can master reading skills in the context of engaging readings.

Vocabulary Development

• Discipline-specific Terminology – in addition to vocabulary-building activities – is introduced at the beginning of every chapter so that students can become familiar with key terms in the chapter's discipline. This vocabulary is revisited at the end of the chapter to deepen comprehension. In this revamped, vocabulary-focused section, students will:
• Be asked to brainstorm at least five words that are related to the given academic discipline. This is a creative way to build vocabulary through practice with associated terms.
• Find ten key words culled from the reading selections. Their task is to find a synonym or an antonym for these discipline-specific terms. Later, when they read the reading selections, they will have a head start on some of the text's key vocabulary terms.
• Be exposed to theme-based vocabulary – one of the most effective methods of building vocabulary, according to studies.

• Marginal Definitions define particularly challenging words or idioms in the reading selections, in order to allow students to tackle the reading with minimal interruption.

Promotes Skill Transference

• Skill Focus, available in every chapter, provides in-depth instruction for a particular reading skill. Students will work with examples and exercises to master these skills and then apply them in the context of authentic reading passages within each discipline focus.

• NEW! A new Chapter 1 engages students with key reading strategies and walks them interactively through the text's goals and features.

• Chapter Recap offers students the chance to review what they have learned over the course of each chapter. They will be asked to recycle vocabulary from the unit and reflect critically on what they have learned and on which reading was most interesting to them.
  

• The Reading with a Critical Eye feature provides students with the opportunity to observe, evaluate, and respond to the reading selections in a critical way. Each reading selection is followed by a variety of open-ended questions, allowing students to think critically about the main points.

• From Reading to Writing sections underscore the connections between reading and writing. Students will be prompted to transfer their academic reading skills to the task of academic writing.

• Study Tips are available after every chapter to help students improve their overall academic performance and to help them become more active learners. Topics include time management, skimming and scanning, and annotation and highlighting.

Also available with MyReadingLab™

MyReadingLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them develop their reading skills and promotes transference of those skills to college-level work. Full-length readings and assignments from the text are available in the etext version of MyReadingLab, strengthening the connection between the classroom and work done outside of class.

MyReadingLab for Read to Succeed, Third Edition also includes:

• Online versions of exercises for each reading. In each chapter, exercises for all readings except one offer feedback; the final reading does not offer feedback and can be used as a post-test to see how students apply learned strategies and skills.
• Two online-only resources for students, Appendix 1: Most Frequent Words of the Academic Word List by Sublist and Appendix 2: Discipline Guide.