This 6th-9th grade level reading text emphasizes reading to learn. Students develop an increasingly complex understanding of the reading process through incremental strategies and “game plans.”

Readings are of varied lengths within the chapters, and a casebook of longer readings all based on the theme of intergenerational relationships is included at the end of the text. Also featuring discipline-specific vocabulary instruction, individual and collaborative activities, critical thinking and reading strategies, and a complete chapter on reading college textbooks, this new edition comprehensively assists the developmental reader.