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Breaking Through: College Reading by Brenda D. Smith is a developmental college reading textbook designed for students who are transitioning into the demands of freshman level coursework. Positioned as the lower level title in a two book series later associated with coauthor LeeAnn Morris, it focuses on helping developing readers strengthen comprehension, critical thinking, and study skills that support success across college classes and everyday learning tasks. A central purpose of the book is to motivate students while giving them practical, repeatable strategies they can apply to real academic reading. Consistent with widely used developmental reading approaches, the text highlights the importance of building prior knowledge or schemata so that new information becomes easier to understand and remember. Instruction is paired with extensive practice, including activities that can be done independently as well as with partners or groups, and the reading selections are chosen to feel relevant to the college community. The book is often described as emphasizing immediate application by using college textbook style passages for authentic practice.