Essential Reading Skills

by McWhorter, Kathleen T.

• ISBN13: 9780321142528
• ISBN10: 0321142527
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Essential Reading Skills is designed to improve reading and thinking skills through concise skill instruction, extensive guided practice, skill application, assessment, and feedback. The text focuses on the most basic reading and thinking skills. Each chapter includes skill instruction, practice exercises, quizzes, and mastery tests. For those interested in improving basic reading skills to college level.

Table of Contents

Chapter Reading Selections	viii
Preface	ix
Reading Actively	1	(34)
Starting with a Positive Attitude	1	(3)
Improve Your Surroundings	2	(1)
Pay Attention	2	(2)
Previewing Before You Read	4	(4)
How to Preview	4	(1)
Demonstration of Previewing	5	(3)
Guide Questions	8	(2)
Putting Your Positive Attitude to Work	10	(25)
What Have You Learned?	10	(1)
What Vocabulary Have You Learned?	11	(1)
Test-Taking Tip #1: Active Test-Taking	11	(14)
Reading Selection To Love and to Cherish by Michelle Kearns (Mastery Test 1-3)	25	(10)
Building Vocabulary: Using Context Clues	35	(22)
What Is Context?	35	(1)
Types of Context Clues	36	(11)
Definition Clues	36	(2)
Synonym Clues	38	(2)
Example Clues	40	(2)
Contrast Clues	42	(2)
Inference Clues	44	(3)
Using All of the Context Clues	47	(10)
What Have You Learned?	47	(1)
Test-Taking Tip #2: Answering Vocabulary Questions	48	(9)
Reading Selection Climbing Mt. Everest by Seaborn ``Beck'' Weathers (Mastery Test 2-3)	57