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Condition
GOOD: The book’s cover and pages are in excellent condition, but there’s a small dent in the upper front corner of the spine. This dent doesn’t interfere with the readability of the book.
Product Details
You might have heard of the benefits of speed reading, but author James W. Sire suggests a more deliberate approach to comprehending what a book’s author is trying to communicate. He wishes for you to look at a work from different perspectives, saying he has three basic categories of readers in mind: Christians who want to learn how to read better, those who have studied literature in college and who loved it so much that they will read anything, and those who must read this book as part of their education and might not want to do it.
Sire covers the non-fiction, poetry, and fiction genres and then digs deeper into various contexts: biographical, literary, historical, ideological, reader’s, and Christian.
Finally, he touches on what to read and when to read it and offers suggestions on how to pick out periodicals and how to read books with a plan.
This book is on the suggested reading list for 11th and 12th graders using the American Literature: Poetry unit from Total Language Plus, a publisher of homeschool literature study guides with a Christian perspective.