Engaged Readers are Active Readers!
 
David Rothman and Jilani Warsi’s goals with Read to Achieve are to spur developmental readers to become active readers and engage them in academic reading by fostering intellectual inquiry through an exploration of contemporary themes related to popular academic disciplines. When a subject matter piques the student’s interest—when the readings are provocative and engaging, when the vocabulary is made accessible through a focus on discipline-specific terminology, and when students have the opportunity to become active readers through expressing their opinions on controversial topics within a discipline—then the sparks will fly.
 
Read To Achieve is for Introductory Developmental Reading Courses and the organization is THEMATIC based on academic disciplines.  ELL tips throughout the text prove especially useful in environments with many English Language Learners.
 
This edition of Read to Achieve is supported by an enhanced MyReadingLab course, which offers text-specific exercises within the Learning Path, all of which feed into the MyReadingLab Gradebook.