Essential Reading Skills, 4th edition

Essential Reading Skills, with its acute focus on what is quintessential to reading success, improves students' reading ability through concise instruction, guided practice, and skill application.

Each of the eleven chapters in Essential Reading Skills focuses on a specific reading and thinking skill.  The instruction is kept short, permitting students to master the reading skills through exercises and applications.  

Essential Reading Skills is the lower-level text in a two-book series, with Active Reading Skills as its higher-level alternative.