The revolutionary approach of D.J. Henry's The Effective Reader / Writer offers a visually rich, high-interest, and down-to-earth approach that reinforces the reading, writing, and thinking processes while showing students how to take responsibility for their learning.

The Effective Reader/Writer offers a balanced approach to literacy by bringing instruction for reading and writing together in one textbook. Emphasis on reading and writing as processes is embedded in instruction throughout. The reading, writing, and reading/writing processes are introduced and illustrated (utilizing Dorling-Kindersley design) in Unit 1 with two-page full-color graphics that explain and visually represent these processes individually and then show how they work together. Appropriate process icons appear throughout the textbook as signals to guide students through the reading and writing process of particular assignments (in the eText and in the MySkillsLab book-specific module, these icons launch videos and interactive media that help broaden student understanding).

Perhaps one of the greatest motivations and underlying goal of The Effective Reader/Writer is to offer an opportunity to develop the literacy skills of students as quickly as possible. To do so, The Effective Reader/Writer taps intobrain-based learning, fosters metacognition, places instruction in meaningfulcontexts, and engages students with high-interest content and visualpresentation.