Great Source Reader's Handbooks

by Burke, Jim; Klemp, Ron; Schwartz, Wendell

• ISBN13: 9780669495072
• ISBN10: 0669495077
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Great Source Education Group Inc

Table of Contents

What Is Reading?	6	(2)
Why You Read	8	(1)
What You Read	9	(1)
The Reading Process	10	(2)
Reading Know-how	12	(3)
Reading Actively	15	(2)
``Sea Bubble'' from A Step from Heaven
An Na
Reading Paragraphs	17	(3)
from ``The Monster''
Deems Taylor
Reading History	20	(11)
The Supreme Court
Reading Science	31	(9)
Igneous Rocks
Reading Math	40	(7)
Solving Addition Equations
Focus on Foreign Language	47	(2)
``Comparativos y Superlativos''
Focus on Science Concepts	49	(4)
The Rock Cycle
Focus on Study Questions	53	(2)
Plessy v. Ferguson
Focus on Word Problems	55	(2)
Average Daily Temperature
Reading a Personal Essay	57	(8)
from ``Going Out for a Walk''
Max Beerbohm
Reading an Editorial	65	(10)
``A Modest Rebuttal''
Reading a News Story	75	(10)
``Ghastly Deeds of Race Rioters Told''
Reading a Biography	85	(9)
from The Life of Phineas Taylor Barnum
Joel Benton
Reading a Memoir	94	(10)
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
Focus on Persuasive Writing	104	(2)
``Cell Phone and Beeper Ban for the Birds''
Focus on Speeches	106	(3)
``Let Me Be a Free Man''
Chief Joseph
Reading a Short Story	109	(14)
``The Last Leaf''
O. Henry
Reading a Novel	123	(12)
from Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Focus on Plot	135	(2)
``Pandora''
Edith Hamilton
Focus on Setting	137	(3)
from The House of Sand and Fog
Andre Dubus III
Focus on Characters	140	(2)
from Stuck in Neutral
Terry Trueman
Focus on Theme	142	(3)
``Pandora''
Edith Hamilton
Focus on Dialogue	145	(3)
from ``What Means Switch''
Gish Jen
Focus on Comparing and Contrasting	148	(2)
from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
from The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
Reading a Poem	150	(7)
``Sympathy''
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Focus on Language	157	(3)
``The Tyger''
William Blake
Focus on Meaning	160	(3)
```For oh,' say the children, `we are weary'''
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Focus on Sound and Structure	163	(3)
``Throwing a Tree''
Thomas Hardy
Reading a Play	166	(9)
from Oedipus the King
Sophocles
Focus on Language	175	(2)
from Oedipus the King
Sophocles
Focus on Theme	177	(3)
from Oedipus the King
Sophocles
Focus on Shakespeare	180	(2)
from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare
Reading a Website	182	(7)
sportsfans.com
Reading a Graphic	189	(8)
Kilowatt Climb
Reading a Driver's Handbook	197	(8)
Right-of-Way Rules
Focus on Reading Instructions	205	(2)
Memory Dialing: Storing Numbers
Focus on Reading for Work	207	(3)
Dress Code Policy
Reading Tests	210	(7)
from Thirteen Senses: A Memoir
Victor Villasenor
Focus on English Tests	217	(2)
Focus on Writing Tests	219	(3)
Focus on Standardized Tests	222	(2)
Focus on History Tests	224	(2)
Focus on Math Tests	226	(2)
Focus on Science Tests	228	(2)
Learning New Words	230	(2)
from ``Hemingway: The Old Lion''
Malcolm Cowley
Skills for Learning New Words	232	(3)
from ``The Fall of the House of Usher''
Edgar Allan Poe
Dictionary Dipping	235	(1)
Focus on Using a Thesaurus	236	(2)
Analogies	238	(2)
Author/Title Index	240