PROVEN FEATURES OF OPENING DOORS:

• Chapter Review Cards: Students create their own summary of every chapter, encouraging active assimilation of key concepts.

• Full-color design: Color both enhances student interest and serves a pedagogical function, helping students to identify crucial concepts and more readily recognize standard pedagogical features. Opening Doors looks like a typical college textbook, facilitating the move to textbooks in other disciplines.

• Practice reading typical course material from across the disciplines:Opening Doors includes selections from current materials of the type students are likely to encounter in college, including material from textbooks (about 2/3 of the readings) and from other college-appropriate sources (roughly 1/3 of the readings). This helps underprepared students understand the real demands of college reading, even as they develop the skills to handle that reading.

• Systematic coverage of essential skills: Vocabulary, comprehension, critical reading and thinking, and essential study skills are all covered in-depth.

  • Part I (Chapters 1-3) focuses on making a successful start in college and developing a college-level vocabulary.
  • Part II (Chapters 4-9) is the comprehension core of the text that presents basic comprehension skills, critical reading, and thinking skills, that students are then asked to practice and use cumulatively throughout the text.
  • Part III (Chapters 10-11) presents study skills and test-taking skills.