Jane L. McGrath earned her undergraduate degree and M.A. in education and mass communications and her Ed.D. in reading education from Arizona State University. During her more than twenty-five years with the Maricopa Colleges, McGrath taught a variety of reading, English, journalism, and computer applications courses. She was named Innovator of the Year by the Maricopa Colleges and the League for Innovation in Community Colleges for Project Read-Aloud, a college-community service program, and has received Outstanding Citizen awards from the cities of Tempe and Phoenix, Arizona, for her community service activities. McGrath's other books include Basic Skills and Strategies for College Reading: A Text with Thematic Reader, second edition, and Strategies for Critical Reading. In addition to her work in reading education, McGrath and her husband Larry write for the high-performance automotive industry. Their work has appeared in magazines such as Drag Racing Today and Circle Track, and their monthly column appears in Performance Racing Industry.
Strategy/Skill Chapters | |
The Big Picture: Approaching Reading As a Process | |
Building Vocabulary | |
Understanding Main Ideas | |
Indentifying Supporting Details and Using Relationships Among Ideas | |
Reading Multi-Paragraph Selections | |
Reading Graphics | |
Understanding the Author's Point of View | |
Organizing the Information You Need | |
Becoming a More Critical Reader | |
Thematic Units | |
First Amendment Freedoms | |
First Amendment Freedoms, Burns, Peltason, Cronin, Magleby, O'Brien, and Light | |
Five Tests of Your Freedoms, USA Weekend | |
State of the First Amendment 2003 | |
How Much Religious Freedom Is Too Much? | |
'Free' and Other 4-Letter Words | |
Dilbert | |
Well, Would You Rather Have an Unfree Press? | |
Our Right to Petition | |
Today's Workplace | |
Tomorrow's Jobs, U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics | |
Editorial Cartoon | |
Managing Human Resources and Labor Relations | |
Judgment Day | |
Stop Stereotyping: Overcoming Your Worst Diversity Enemy | |
What Should I Do With My Life? | |
Money and Motivation | |
Violence and Crime | |
The Moral Circle | |
Crime and Violence | |
Four R's | |
A Well-Regulated Controversy | |
Hatred: Too Close for Comfort | |
Much Ado about Violence | |
Why Rocky III? | |
Prologue: New Year's Eve | |
Biodiversity | |
Imagine | |
Is Earth Experiencing a Biodiversity Crisis? | |
The Politics of Biodiversity | |
Editorial Cartoon | |
A Grizzly Future | |
Sustainable Agriculture Depends on Biodiversity | |
The Silent Casualties of War | |
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