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Preface to Students
Unique Features of this Text
Organization
Get Ready to Learn
Learning Styles
Reading Techniques SQ3R
Note-taking Strategies
Chapter 1 Vocabulary
Theme Exploring College
Spotlight on Learning Styles –Listening
Shortcuts and time-savers to use while you read
How clues help you guess the meaning of unknown words
Synonyms and Definitions
Practice the New Skill
Antonyms
Examples
Experience, Prior Knowledge, and Perceptions
Review What You Learned
Master the Lesson
Learning Styles Activities
Choosing a College Major: How to Chart Your Ideal Path from www.quintcareers.com
Reading 1 – Internet
High School Versus College Life: A Freshman Year Guide to Different Student Academic Expectations from Suite 101
Reading 2 – Textbook
Attitude from The Community College Experience: Plus
Reading 3 – Literature
College Talk from Chicken Soup for the College Soul: Inspiring and Humorous Stories about College
Reading 4 – Magazines/Periodicals
Reading 5 – Visual Images
Diversity
Chapter 2 Vocabulary - Word Parts
Spotlight on Learning Styles – Doing
How to Use Word Parts to Understand the Meaning of Words
How to Apply new Vocabulary Strategies to You Reading
Prefixes
Roots
Suffixes
Master the Lesson –Vocabulary
Exercise your vocabulary from About.com Guide to Exercise
5 Foods That Boost Your Mood from Self.com
Managing Stress from The Community College Experience Plus
Exercise and Other Dirty Words from, Porch Talk: Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species by Philip Gulley
Your Own Brain can Sabotage Success
Rhymes with Orange cartoon, using fish oil
Chapter 3 Main Ideas
SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review for better comprehension)
You’ve Got a Friend
Readings
Rule of Thumbs: Love in the Age of Texting from TheWashingtonPost.com
The Faces of Conflict from Cornerstone: Creating Success Through Positive Change
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Dr. Phil’s Six Rules of Talking & Listening from O, The Oprah Magazine.
Friends hanging out together
Chapter 4 Supporting Details
Theme Using Your Time Wisely
Spotlight on Learning Styles – Looking
Reading the other sentences (What details are included in the paragraph?)
A Time for Everything
Time Management -- Getting it Done from Careers and College
Use Scheduling Techniques from Keys to Success: Building Successful Intelligence for College, Career, and Life
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Beating the Odds from the magazine, Real Simple: Life Made Easier
Working on the beach
Chapter 5 Implied Main Idea
What is the Implied Main Idea
Putting Implied Main Ideas in Your Own Words
100 Things to Do During a Money Free Weekend from www.thesimpledollar.com
On-the-Job Video Gaming from www.businessweek.com
The Art of Listening from Understanding Music
Make a Decision: Tigger or Eeyore from The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Cupcakes are Manning Up from Food Network Magazine
Banana Slugs
Chapter 6 Patterns of Organizations
Theme Money Matters
Writers have a plan (What are they trying to do?)
Practice the new Skill
Master the Lesson – Patterns of Organization
Economic Readiness Assessment from Cornerstone: Creating success through positive change
Money Trouble? It’s Your Own Fault from Money Central at www.msn.com
Small Costs Add Up and B is for Budgeting from Cornerstone: Creating Success through Positive Change
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abignale
Fuel economy: Save money on gas; Consumer Reports' Tests Show How to Get the Best Gas Mileage
We Can Help You Save a Latte; advertisement from a credit union
Chapter 7 Patterns of Organizations – Part 2
Theme Job and Life Skills
Paragraphs Developed with Cause/Effect
How to Live: Follow Your Heart, Risk Be Damned from www.cbsnews.com
11 Warning Signs Your Interview is in Trouble from msn.careerbuilder.com
Focusing on your professional career and living well from Cornerstone: Creating Success through Positive Change
Eyeing the Mountaintopfrom Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom
Best of America from Readers’ Digest
Body Language
Chapter 8 Facts and Opinions
Theme Staying Current
How to Identify Facts and Opinions
How to separate facts from opinions in persuasive text
Master the Lesson – Fact and Opinions
Self-help online from USA Weekend
Reading 1– Internet
U.S. Army Dips a Toe in Wind Power Waters
Gay and Lesbian Couples from Society: The Basics
Reading 3 - Literature
Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan
Reading 4 - Magazine/Periodicals
Don’t Blame Ronald for Kids’ Weight.
Reading 5 -Visual Images
Farmer’s market
Chapter 9 Inferences
Spotlight on Learning Styles – Looking, Listening, Writing and Doing
How to Find Inferences (What can you see between the lines?)
Master the Lesson – Inference
Attitude 101: What every leader needs to know by John Maxwell
Sandra Cisneros from Gale: Free Resources: Hispanic Heritage: Biographies
Achievement from Psychology: An Introduction
The Little Engine That Could: I Think I Can from The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That
Matter Most to Them
Inspire Your Kids with Stories of Heroes from USA Weekend
Reading 5 – Visual Image
The Essence of Achievement
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