The Confident Reader

This mid-level text in Kanar's series takes a holistic approach to reading as a process that students can discover and control as they develop skills. This volume offers separate chapters on facts and opinions, purpose and tone, making inferences, and understanding and evaluating arguments. Review of basic skills, in areas such as finding main ideas and details, strengthens the foundation students gained in the first-level text.

This mid-level text in Kanar's series takes a holistic approach to reading as a process that students can discover and control as they develop skills. This volume offers separate chapters on facts and opinions, purpose and tone, making inferences, and understanding and evaluating arguments. Review of basic skills, in areas such as finding main ideas and details, strengthens the foundation students gained in the first-level text.

Carol Kanar is the author of several Houghton Mifflin writing, reading, and student success texts: Reading and Writing with Confidence, The Reader's Corner, Becoming a Confident Reader, The Confident Reader, and The Confident Student. She also developed Houghton Mifflin's ReadingSpace, a web-based reading assessment program. Kanar is a graduate of the University of Florida, where she earned the Master of Arts in English, and of Rollins College where she earned the Master of Education in reading. She has 27 years of teaching experience, 20 of which she spent at Valencia Community College teaching reading, writing, and study skills. A frequent conference presenter and speaker, Kanar has served on the Executive Board of the Florida Development Education Association and is an active member of the National Association of Developmental Educators.