Most chapters begin with Prepare to Read and conclude with Chapter Review Quiz | |
Preface | |
Getting Started | |
Commit | |
Concentrate | |
Know about Reading | |
Be an Active Reader | |
How the Sun Came | |
Tips for Staying Well | |
Developing a Reading Strategy | |
Prepare to Read | |
Why Have a Reading Strategy? Prepare-Read-Respond: How the Steps Connect | |
Prepare | |
Read | |
Respond | |
Open Season: Children as Prey | |
Hydrogen and the Hindenburg | |
Word Power 1: Using Context Clues and Building Vocabulary | |
Context Clues | |
Learning New Words | |
A Brief Book List | |
Opposing Principles Help Balance Society | |
Word Power 2: Recognizing Word Parts and Knowing Your Dictionary | |
Compound Words | |
Learning from Word Parts: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes | |
Knowing Your Dictionary | |
Pronunciation | |
Abbreviations Used in Dictionary Entries | |
Working with Word Meanings | |
Defining English | |
Distinguishing between General and Specific Statements | |
General and Specific Statements | |
Levels of Specificity | |
Recognizing General and Specific Sentences | |
Understanding Complicated Sentences | |
In the Rain Forest | |
Understanding Main Ideas | |
Identifying a Paragraph's Topic | |
Identifying Main Ideas | |
Reading Longer Passages | |
The Summary | |
The Pyramids | |
Recognizing Strategies and Structures in Writing | |
Explaining by Listing | |
Time Sequence and Process | |
Definition | |
Comparison and Contrast | |
Cause and Effect | |
Mixed Patterns | |
Smoke and Mirrors | |
Neat People vs. Sloppy People | |
Reading Graphics | |
How to Read Graphics | |
Pictures and Photographs | |
Diagrams | |
Maps | |
Tables | |
Graphs and Charts | |
Graphs Can Lie, Easy as Pie | |
Reading and Studying for College Classes | |
Reading Textbooks | |
Writing-to-Learn Strategies | |
Learning from Three Textbook Sections | |
Reinforcing Learning in Class | |
Preparing for Testing | |
Reading More Efficiently | |
Scanning | |
Skimming | |
Improving Visual Skills | |
Improving Visual Skills through Improved Spelling | |
Efficient Reading through Aggressive Reading | |
Timed Reading I | |
Some Principles of Communication | |
Timed Reading II | |
The Rude Awaken | |
Timed Reading III: Lefton and Valvatne, Coping, Health, and a Positive Attitude | |
Drawing Inferences and Understanding Implied Main Ideas | |
What Are Inferences? Drawing Inferences from Reading | |
Connotation | |
Figurative Language | |
Characteristics of Appropriate Inferences | |
Understanding Implied Main Ideas | |
Drawing Inferences and Understanding Implied Meanings in Longer Passages | |
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