Connect Now | |
Introduction to the New Strategy: Connect Now | |
Getting an Impression of the Topic | |
Your Experiences and Feelings | |
Your Purpose and the Author’s Purpose | |
Apply the New Strategy: Connect Now | |
The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 1 Help You to Read from the Inside Out? | |
How Does the Connect Now Strategy Work? | |
Mastery Test | |
I Do Not Like to Read—Sam-I-Am! | |
Connect Now Practice Pages | |
The One-Room Schoolhouse of the Nineteenth Century | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? Matthew McConaughey: The Case for Christ | |
Respond | |
Introduction to the New Strategy: Respond | |
You, the Audience | |
Time for Responding | |
Space for Responding | |
Questions and Comments | |
Looking for Answers | |
Connections with Other Ideas | |
Apply the New Strategy: Respond | |
Forbidden Reading | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 2 Help You to Become a More Engaged Reader? | |
How Does the Respond Strategy Work? | |
Mastery Test | |
“See Spot Run”: Teaching My Grandmother to Read | |
Respond Practice Pages | |
Think Big! | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? Sarah Jessica Parker: The History of Love | |
Vital Vocabulary | |
Introduction the New Strategy: Vital Vocabulary | |
Tone, or the Author’s Voice | |
Context Clues | |
The Dictionary | |
Word Parts | |
A System for Learning New Words | |
Apply the New Strategy: Vital Vocabulary | |
Where English Words Come From | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 3 Help You to Become a More Engaged Reader? | |
How Does the Vital Vocabulary Strategy Work? | |
Mastery Test | |
Point. Shoot. See | |
Vital Vocabulary Practice Pages | |
Does Media Violence Desensitize Children to Violence? | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? Courtney Love: Trading Up | |
Get an Overview | |
Introduction to the New Strategy: Get an Overview | |
The Title: The Author’s Key to the Subject | |
Other Important Clues | |
Skimming | |
Predicting | |
Apply the New Strategy: Get an Overview | |
What Deprived Children Tell Us about Human Nature | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 4 Help You to Become a More Engaged Reader? | |
How Does the Operation Overview Strategy Work? Mastery Test | |
The Good Person by Robert Coles | |
Get an Overview Practice Pages | |
Managing Workforce Diversity | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? Madonna: The Night Listener | |
Ask Questions | |
Introduction to the New Strategy: Ask Questions | |
Questions for Connecting to the Reading | |
Questions for Predicting the Overall Point and Main Ideas | |
Questions That Get Useful Answers | |
Answers and New Questions | |
Apply the New Strategy: Ask Questions | |
How Babies Use Patterns to See | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 5 Help You Become a More Engaged Reader? | |
How Does the Asking Questions Strategy Work? | |
Mastery Test | |
talking back | |
Ask Questions Practice Pages | |
Powder by Tobias Wolff | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? Kristin Cavallari: Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of An Anti-Hero | |
Find and Mark Main Ideas | |
Introduction to the New Strategy: Find and Mark Main Ideas | |
Marking Ideas | |
Overall Point and Main Topics in a Reading | |
Main Ideas in Paragraphs | |
Supporting Ideas | |
Adjust your Marking | |
Apply the New Strategy: Find and Mark Main Ideas | |
How the Self-Concept Develops | |
Sample Marking: How the Self-Concept Develops | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 6 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
How Does the Find and Mark Main Ideas Strategy Work? | |
Mastery Test | |
School Is Bad for Children | |
Sample Marking: School Is Bad for Children | |
Find Main Ideas Practice Pages | |
Learning the River | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? Kirsten Dunst: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God | |
Patterns of Thought | |
Introduction to the New Strategy: Patterns of Thought | |
Common Patterns | |
Patterns and the Overall Point | |
Patterns and Main Ideas | |
Signal Words and Phrases | |
Apply the New Strategy: Patterns of Thought | |
Optimism: The Great Motivator | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 7 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
How Does the Look for Patterns of Thought Strategy Work? | |
Mastery Test | |
How Conscious Is Thought? | |
Patterns of Thought Practice Pages | |
Traveling by Grace Paley | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? Jason Lee: Hunger | |
Map Main Ideas | |
Introduction to the New Strategy: Map Main Ideas | |
Placing the Overall Point, the Main Ideas, and the Supporting Ideas | |
Apply the New Strategy: Map Main Ideas | |
Why People Don’t Help in a Crisis | |
Sample Informal Outline: “Why People Don’t Help in a Crisis” | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 8 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
How Does the Map Main Ideas Strategy Work? | |
Mastery Test | |
Mother Tongue | |
Map Main Ideas Practice Pages | |
Imprinting: A Form of Learning | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? Shia LaBeouf: The Definitive Book of Body Language | |
Make Inferences | |
Introduction to the New Strategy: Make Inferences | |
Inferences and Implied Ideas | |
Logical Connections | |
Details | |
Word Choice | |
Your Own Assumptions | |
Apply the New Strategy: Make Inferences | |
A Letter to My Teacher | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 9 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
How Does the Make Inferences Strategy Work? | |
Mastery Test | |
Why Men Don’t Last: Self-Destruction as a Way of Life | |
Make Inferences Practice Pages | |
The Gorilla’s Embrace | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? Cassandra Wilson: Manuals on PHP | |
Find Meaning in Metaphors | |
Introduction to the New Strategy: Find Meaning in Metaphors | |
Metaphorical Expressions | |
Interpreting Metaphors | |
Apply the New Strategy: Find Meaning in Metaphors | |
Terror Unlimited | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 10 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
How Does the Find Meaning in Metaphors Strategy Work? | |
Mastery Test | |
Buckle Up. And Behave | |
Find Meaning in Metaphors Practice Pages | |
Victor | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? Casey Affleck: Short stories, including “Incident at Owl Creek” | |
Determine the Writer’s Perspective | |
Introduction to the New Strategy: Determine the Writer’s Perspective | |
Styles of Writing | |
The Intended Audience | |
Perspective | |
Tone and Bias | |
Apply the New Strategy: Determine the Writer’s Perspective | |
A Global Green Deal | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 11 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
How Does the Determine the Writer’s Perspective Strategy Work? | |
Mastery Test | |
Infernal Paradise | |
The Writer’s Perspective Practice Pages | |
Pitching Messages | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? Kenny Melman, Herb of cabaret duo Kiki and Herb: Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture | |
Write a Summary | |
Introduction to the New Strategy: Write a Summary | |
Paraphrasing | |
Summarizing the Overall Point and Main Ideas | |
Apply the New Strategy: Write a Summary | |
Police and the Community | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 12 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
How Does the Write a Summary Strategy Work? | |
Mastery Test | |
Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments | |
Write a Summary Practice Pages | |
The Argument Culture | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? Chris Rock: The Fire Next Time | |
Analyze the Information | |
Introduction to the New Strategy: Analyze the Information | |
Fact and Opinion | |
Reliable Information | |
Testing the Support | |
Apply the New Strategy: Analyze the Information | |
Four for a Quarter | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 13 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
How Does the Analyze the Information Strategy Work? | |
Mastery Test | |
Buy This 24-Year-Old and Get All His Friends Absolutely Free | |
Analyze the Information Practice Pages | |
Memo from Coach | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? Jodi Picoult: The Ice Queen | |
Make an Evaluation | |
Introduction to the New Strategy: Make an Evaluation | |
Thinking Objectively | |
Thinking Subjectively | |
Apply the New Strategy: Make an Evaluation | |
Don’t Further Empower Cliques | |
Summary | |
How Does Strategy 14 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
How Does the Make an Evaluation Strategy Work? | |
Mastery Test | |
Can Gossip Be Good? | |
Make an Evaluation Practice Pages | |
The Formation of Modern American Mass Culture | |
Culture Wire | |
What Are They Reading? LeVar Burton: The Road Less Travelled | |
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