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Instructor Edition
Opening Doors: Understanding College Reading, 4/e

Joe Cortina, Richland College
Janet Elder, Richland College

ISBN: 0072997664
Copyright year: 2005

Supplements



FOR INSTRUCTORS

  • An Annotated Instructors’ Edition (ISBN 0-07-287197-0) provides answers to all exercises; marginal notes that provide a rich variety of teaching tips, related resources, and relevant quotations; and an Instructor’s Guide (an additional section bound in to the back of the text).

  • An Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM (ISBN 0-07-287198-9 ) offers an Instructor's Manual and Test Bank, which includes supplemental materials, answer keys, teaching strategies, pages that can be used as transparency masters, and supplementary reading selections (with apparatus) retired from previous editions.
  • The Instructors’ Online Learning Center (password-protected at www.mhhe.com/openingdoors) offers the same Instructor’s Manual and Testbank material, along with Powerpoint slideshows to accompany each chapter of the text.

FOR STUDENTS

  • A free student CD-ROM is packaged with every new copy of the student text. This CD-ROM contains a variety of support and practice materials that help students master the skills and concepts presented in the text:

    • Self-grading quizzes for 9 reading selections that offer feedback for both correct and incorrect responses
    • Video and audio, featuring Joe Cortina and Janet Elder, offering key definitions and comprehension monitoring questions
    • Flashcards of important reading terms
    • Chapter tests
    • Journal writing prompts
    • Crossword puzzles for vocabulary practice
    • Additional web site resources for each reading selection
  • The Students’ Online Learning Center (password-protected at www.mhhe.com/openingdoors) offers much of the material from the CD-ROM, but also

    • select resources from Catalyst, McGraw-Hill’s premier online resource for English
    • Quizzes offering additional reading passages for comprehension practice for each chapter of the text
    • Working on the Web exercises that ask students to engage meaningfully with websites that illuminate chapter content

  • Available FREE with the adoption of any McGraw-Hill reading text, THE MCGRAW-HILL TEXTBOOK READER brings together chapters from five of McGraw-Hill Higher Education’s best-selling textbooks:

    • Lahey, Psychology: An Introduction, 8e;
    • Sherman/Salisbury, The West in the World, 2e;
    • Mader, Biology, 8e;
    • Dominick/Messere/Sherman, Broadcasting, Cable, the Internet, and Beyond, 5e; and
    • Pearson/Nelson/Titsworth/Harter, Human Communication, 1e.

    Each sample chapter is accompanied by additional questions for comprehension, critical thinking, journal writing, and group work.
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