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9780155997172

Between the Lines

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  • ISBN13:

    9780155997172

  • ISBN10:

    0155997173

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-03-01
  • Publisher: Harcourt College Pub
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Summary

Between the Lines, Second Edition, offers the high intermediate college-bound learner intense and fascinating practice in the development of high-level reading skills for academic purposes. Over 50 different exercise types are found throughout eight thematic content area articles of contemporary relevance. These high-interest readings provide the basis for recognizing and mastering distinct skills, which include skimming, scanning, surveying, generalizing, synopsizing, inferring, and concluding. The new edition retains the strength of the original while adding innovative opportunities for implementation and expansion.

Table of Contents

Preface and Instructions for Use v
Preliminary Unit Reading Strategically 1(3)
Chaos or Order?
4(3)
Learning to Read for Details
7(2)
Critical Reading: Identifying Implications and Judgments
9(6)
Finding Main Ideas
15(2)
Sun-Cooking
17(5)
Planet in Danger
22(32)
Planet in Danger
24(14)
Reading Between the Lines: What Does X Mean?
29(9)
Tropical Rain Forest---Fragile Ecosystem
38(5)
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
43(5)
Indigenous Peoples
48(6)
Increasing Reading Speed: Timed Readings
51(3)
The Bottom Line
54(28)
It's Good Business
56(10)
The Deja Shoe Company
66(3)
The Principles of Problem Solving
69(4)
The Customer Service Representative
73(9)
Reading Between the Lines: Understanding Sayings About Business
77(2)
Increasing Reading Speed: Timed Readings
79(3)
Agriculture: From the Ground Up
82(28)
Breakthroughs in Agriculture
83(9)
Seed Banking Against Famine
92(5)
Grasslands
97(13)
Reading Between the Lines: Understanding Sequence
104(2)
Increasing Reading Speed: Timed Readings
106(4)
The Earth Shakes
110(30)
Plate Tectonics
111(7)
The Earth Shakes
118(4)
Predict, Prevent, Prepare
122(4)
Where Did Antarctica Come From?
126(4)
Reading Between the Lines: Cause and Effect
129(1)
A Rocking, Rolling, Living Planet
130(3)
The Big One
133(7)
Increasing Reading Speed: Timed Readings
137(3)
Peace Education
140(30)
An Allegory
142(10)
Don't Litigate, Mediate!
152(4)
King Solomon's Way
156(5)
Active Listening
161(9)
Reading Between the Lines: The Meaning Behind the Words
164(2)
Increasing Reading Speed: Timed Readings
166(4)
Shards, Tells, and Excavations
170(33)
Shards, Tells, and Excavations
171(9)
The Mystery of Stonehenge
180(3)
The Science of Archaeology
183(6)
The Lost Continent: Atlantis
189(14)
Reading Between the Lines: Recognizing Organization
194(5)
Increasing Reading Speed: Timed Readings
199(4)
Intelligence
203(27)
The Human Brain
204(7)
Reading Between the Lines: Understanding Scientific Style
208(3)
Exercising the Brain: Solving Puzzles
211(10)
Virtual Reality
221(3)
A Super Man
224(6)
Increasing Reading Speed: Timed Readings
227(3)
The Human Expression of Beauty
230(28)
The Human Expression of Beauty
231(7)
Reading the Short Story
238(2)
The Last Leaf
240(6)
Reading Fables and Traditional Tales
246(4)
Reading the Poem
250(8)
Reading Between the Lines: The Moral of the Story
253(2)
Increasing Reading Speed: Timed Readings
255(3)
Timed Readings Chart 258(1)
Index 259

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