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Active Reading Skills (with MyReadingLab Student Access Code Card)
ISBN: 9780205734429 | 0205734421
Edition: 2ndFormat: Package
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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Focusing on only the essential reading and thinking skills needed for college reading success, Active Reading Skills uses concise instruction, guided practice, and extensive application to develop reading strategies.
| Improving Your Skills | |
| Reading Actively | |
| Keys to Academic Success | |
| Read and Learn Actively | |
| Preview Before Reading | |
| Use Guide Questions | |
| Reading Selection (Mastery Test 3) | |
| ldquo;Diversity in U.S. Families.rdquo; | |
| Using Context and Word Parts | |
| What is Context? | |
| Types of Context Clues | ... MORE|
| What Are Word Parts? | |
| Reading Selection (Mastery Test 3) | |
| ldquo;Unfair Advantage.rdquo; | |
| Locating Main Ideas | |
| What Is a Main Idea? | |
| Understanding General Versus Specific | |
| Identifying the Topic | |
| Finding the Main Idea | |
| Finding the Central Thought | |
| Learn More About Paragraphs | |
| Reading Selection (Mastery Test 3) | |
| ldquo;Environmental Racism.rdquo; | |
| Identifying Details and Transitions | |
| What Are Supporting Details? | |
| Recognizing Transitions | |
| Putting It All Together | |
| Reading Selection (Mastery Test 3) | |
| ldquo;Talking A Stranger Through the Night.rdquo; | |
| Understanding Implied Main Ideas | |
| What Does Implied Mean? | |
| Remembering General Vs. Specific | |
| How to Find Implied Main Ideas in Paragraphs | |
| Working With Paragraphs | |
| Reading Selection (Mastery Test 3) | |
| ldquo;Sex and Symmetry.rdquo; | |
| Keeping Track of Information | |
| Why Keep Track of Information? | |
| Highlighting and Marking | |
| Outlining | |
| Mapping | |
| Summarizing | |
| Good Reasons to Keep Track Of Information | |
| Reading Selection (Mastery Test 3) | |
| ldquo;Personal Safety Online.rdquo; | |
| Recognizing PatternsI | |
| What Are Patterns of Organization? | |
| Combining Patterns of Organization | |
| Reading Selection (Mastery Test 3) | |
| ldquo;Animals at Play,rdquo; (Textbook Excerpt) | |
| Recognizing Patterns II | |
| Comparison/Contrast Patterns | |
| Other Useful Patterns | |
| Reading Selection (Mastery Test 3) | |
| ldquo;The Mind-Body Connection.rdquo; | |
| Reading Critically: Inferences and Author's Purpose | |
| What Is Inference? | |
| Understanding Author's Purpose | |
| Reading Selection (Mastery Test 3) | |
| ldquo;If Our Son is Happy, What Else Matters?rdquo; | |
| Reading Critically: Fact and Opinion | |
| Is It Fact or Opinion? | |
| Mixing Fact and Opinion | |
| Evaluating Fact and Opinion | |
| Informed Opinion | |
| Reading Selection (Mastery Test 3) | |
| ldquo;Canine Candy Stripers.rdquo; | |
| Reading Critically: Tone and Bias | |
| Tone | |
| Bias | |
| Reading Selection (Mastery Test 3) | |
| ldquo;Explaining Away Hate.rdquo; 12 | |
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