Racing Ahead With Reading

by Mather, Peter; McCarthy, Rita

• ISBN13: 9780073047676
• ISBN10: 0073047678
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-24
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Designed to help students race forward in their reading skills, this introductory text uses the theme of sports (integrated through reading selections, visuals, and exercises) to help students develop the skills they need to tackle college-level reading.Racing Ahead with Readingfeatures clear and thorough explanations, a wide array of exercises and activities, and a range of engaging reading selections of the types students are likely to encounter in college all to engage attention and inspire students to read with care and enthusiasm.

Table of Contents

Racing Ahead with Reading

Tackling the Basics

Getting Warmed Up Introduction Getting Started Reading: How Can I Get an A in This Class?

Walter Cunningham Getting Acquainted with Your Textbook Reading: Best Seat in the House

Warm-Up 1 Phonics: Consonants and Vowels, Syllabication Phonics—A Review Consonants Vowels The Schwa Phonics Irregularities Phonics: Practice Rules for Dividing Words into Syllables Syllables Reading: How a Prince Learned to Read

Warm-Up 2 -- Word Structure: Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots Word Parts Exercises on prefixes, suffixes, and roots Word Parts: Practice Synonyms and Antonyms: A Review Synonyms and Antonyms: Practice Reading: How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphics

Warm-Up 3 tDictionary Dictionaries An Up-to-Date Dictionary Completeness of the Dictionary Using a Dictionary Definitions of Words Context Clues Definition Clues Synonym Clues Explanation Clues Examples Clues Antonym Clues Reading: excerpt from Life is Not a Fairy Tale

Reading: Doing What Comes Naturally

Warm-Up 4 Study Skills: Skimming, Scanning, SQ3R An Overview fo SQ3R Practice with SQ3R Reading: Using Time Effectively

Using Your Computer and the Internet Reading: Moving Beyond Your Computer

Scanning Techniques for Scanning Reading: Bat''s New Image

Discovering Meaning through Structure

Identifying Topics, Directly Stated Main Ideas, Working with Supporting Details Topic Distinguishing between General and Specific Main Ideas and Details Paragraph Diagrams Reading: Should We Believe the Claims of Psychics?

Implied Main Ideas and Paraphrasing Implied Main Ideas Paraphrasing Strategies for Identifying the Implied Main Idea Asking Questions Combining Sentences Summing Up Ideas in One Sentence Making Sure You Have Correctly Identified the Implied Main Idea Reading: Fishin'' Superstition: It''s More Than Just Luck

AP Reading: Hope Diamond

Reading: Stadium Nights

Identifying Directly Stated Main Idea

Identifying Implied Main Idea

Identifying the Main Idea

Recognizing Transition Words and Patterns of Organization Transition Words Common Patterns of Organization Classification and Division Pattern Cause and Effect Pattern Reading: Heroes

Steps in a Process and Chronology Pattern Definition and Example Pattern Reading: excerpt from Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Reading: Stand Up for Yourself

Identifying the Author''s Tone and Purpose Identifying Tone Wroking with Irony Satire Reading: Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink (for Free)

Determining the Author''s Purpose Writing to Inform Writing to Entertain Writing to Persuade Reading: Love and the Cabie

Reading: excerpt from It''s Not About the Bike

Reading: The Big Hero of Littleton

Interpreting What We Read

Inference Inference Drawing Inferences from Droodles Drawing Inferences froM Epitaphs Drawing Inferences from Textbook Material Drawing Inferences from Popular Literature Reading: Beware of the Dog

Reading: excerpt from The Right Words at the Right Time

Figurative Language Figurative Language Types of Figurative Language Similes Metaphors Personification Extended Metaphor Working with Symbols Reading: Sympathy

Dunbar Imagery Reading: Thunderbolts

Fact and Opinion Fact and Opinion Clues to Identifying an Opinion Reading: The Lie Detector Controversy

Reading: Integration in Sports

Bias Bias Denotation and Connotation Point of View Reading: Somebody''s Baby

Euphemisms Reading: Lizzie Borden: Victorian Woman and Murder

Reading: What''s So Great about America?

Reading: For Conversation, Press #1

Reading: Eyewitness Testimony: Can We Trust It?

Understanding Textbook Material

Visual Aids How to Use and Interpret Various Types of Visual Aids Bar Graphs: Vertical and Horizontl Tables Pie Charts Maps Diagrams Line Graphs Flow Charts Photos Cartoons Reading: Uses and Misuses of Credit

Textbook Selections Annotating, Outlining, Mapping, and Summarizing Underlining and Highlighting Annotating Outlining Mapping Summarizing Reading: Memorization

Reading: The Psychology of Personality

Supplementary Readings

World of Work; Relationships and behavior

The World of Work Abraham Lincoln Denies a Loan

The Fence That Me and Shorty Built

How Not to Dress for Work

Hershey''s Chocolate

Relationships And Behavior Social Influence: Conformity and Obedience

The Emperor''s New Clothes

The Lottery

Morrow

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