Great Source Reader's Handbooks

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

• ISBN13: 9780669495096
• ISBN10: 0669495093
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Great Source Education Group Inc

Table of Contents

What Is Reading?	6	(1)
Why You Read	7	(1)
What You Read	8	(1)
The Reading Process	9	(2)
Reading Know-how	11	(4)
from ``A Pair of Silk Stockings''
Kate Chopin
One True Thing
Anna Quindlen
Reading Actively	15	(2)
from House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday
Reading Paragraphs	17	(4)
from The American Heritage Picture History of WWII and Hiroshima
Reading History	21	(11)
``World War I Begins: The First Three Years''
Reading Science	32	(9)
``Everyday Forces''
Reading Math	41	(8)
``Graphing and Writing Equations of Circles''
Focus on Foreign Language	49	(2)
``Preterit and Imperfect Tenses''
Focus on Science Concepts	51	(2)
``Displacement''
Focus on Study Questions	53	(2)
from ``Self-Reliance''
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Focus on Word Problems	55	(2)
Bike Ride Problem
Reading a Personal Essay	57	(10)
``About Barbers''
Mark Twain
Reading an Editorial	67	(10)
``Freedom of Speech''
William Cullen Bryant
Reading a News Story	77	(8)
``Heir to Austrian Throne Assassinated''
Reading a Biography	85	(9)
from Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
Charles A. Eastman
Reading a Memoir	94	(9)
from Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
William Bartram
Focus on Persuasive Writing	103	(2)
``Cell Phones on Campus''
Focus on Speeches	105	(2)
from Carrie Chapman Catt's Speech in Favor of Women's Suffrage
Reading a Short Story	107	(13)
``A Wagner Matinee''
Willa Cather
Reading a Novel	120	(14)
from The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Focus on Plot	134	(2)
from ``Zlateh the Goat'' by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Focus on Setting	136	(2)
from Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Focus on Characters	138	(2)
from The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler
Focus on Theme	140	(2)
from Beyond the Horizon
Eugene O'Neill
Focus on Dialogue	142	(2)
from The Shipping News
E. Annie Proulx
Focus on Comparing and Contrasting	144	(2)
from ``The Fall of the House of Usher''
Edgar Allan Poe
The Aspern Papers
Henry James
Reading a Poem	146	(8)
``Richard Cory''
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Focus on Language	154	(2)
``The Death of Lincoln''
William Cullen Bryant
Focus on Meaning	156	(3)
``Success Is Counted Sweetest''
Emily Dickinson
Focus on Sound and Structure	159	(2)
from ``Snow-Bound''
John Greenleaf Whittier
Reading a Play	161	(11)
from Beyond the Horizon
Eugene O'Neill
Focus on Language	172	(2)
from Beyond the Horizon
Eugene O'Neill
Focus on Theme	174	(2)
from Beyond the Horizon
Eugene O'Neill
Focus on Shakespeare	176	(2)
from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Reading a Website	178	(9)
``Petscape'' Website
Reading a Graphic	187	(6)
``Stock Price: SARA''
Reading for the Everyday World	193	(11)
``California Voter Pamphlet: Proposition 40''
Focus on Reading Instructions	204	(2)
from ``Operating Instructions for Microwave Oven''
Focus on Reading for Work	206	(2)
``Employee Handbook: Handling Complaints''
Reading Tests and Test Questions	208	(8)
from Here at The New Yorker
Brendan Gill
Focus on English Tests	216	(2)
Grammar Multiple-choice Questions
Focus on Writing Tests	218	(2)
School Uniform Proposal
Focus on Standardized Tests	220	(2)
Solving Multiple-choice Questions
Focus on History Tests	222	(2)
Pre-Civil War America
Focus on Math Tests	224	(2)
Calculating Area
Focus on Science Tests	226	(2)
Velocity
Learning New Words	228	(2)
from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
Focus on Collecting New Words	230	(2)
from The Burden of Proof
Scott Turow
Skills for Learning New Words	232	(2)
from Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende
Dictionary Dipping	234	(2)
Haste Entry
Focus on Using a Thesaurus	236	(2)
Event Entry
Analogies	238	(2)
Author/Title Index	240