Reading Keys
ISBN: 9780547190952 | 0547190956
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/8/2010
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READING KEYS, 3rd Edition - the first in a three-book reading series by Laraine Flemming - offers a comprehensive introduction to reading skills and strategies, from using context clues to identifying purpose and bias. Clear, accessible explanations present reading concepts without oversimplifying the process of reading comprehension. To ensure students' understanding, reading "keys" or summaries follow the explanations, breaking them down into manageable chunks. Throughout each chapter, a variety of steadily more difficult exercises assess students' understanding of the material and promote improved comprehension and critical-thinking skills. This incremental approach to instruction and assessment makes it easier for beginning readers to absorb and master new information.The third edition of this text offers even more engaging readings - Laraine Flemming's signature - as well as a focus on study skills, a new vocabulary feature, and a revised final chapter, "From Comprehension to Critical Reading." A complete technology package - including online homework and practice and a package of Powerpoint slides and tests for the instructor - provides students with dynamic learning opportunities and instructors with enhanced teaching options.
| Preface | |
| Getting Into A Textbook State of Mind | |
| Learn How to Develop and Maintain Concentration | |
| Preview Your Assignments | |
| Use the Web for Background Knowledge | |
| Read Strategically | |
| Make Connections Between General and Specific Sentences | |
| Making Marginal Notes The Reading Paraphrase Versus the Writing Paraphrase | |
| Learning the Language... MORE | |
| Rounding Up the Keys | |
| Ten Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| Digging Deeper: Muscle Reading | |
| Reviewing the Key Points | |
| Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| More On Words and Meanings | |
| Using Context Clues Restatement Clues Contrast Clues Example Clues General Knowledge Clues | |
| Breaking Words into Part s | |
| Rounding Up the Keys | |
| Digging Deeper: New Words Needed | |
| Reviewing the Key Points | |
| Using Context Clues | |
| Using Context Clues | |
| Using Word Part s and Context Clues | |
| Using Word Part s and Context Clues | |
| Using Word Part s and Context Clues | |
| Using Word Part s and Context Clues | |
| From Topics to Main Ideas | |
| What's the Topic Phrasing the Topic Inferring the Topic | |
| What's the Main Idea | |
| Looking for Topic Sentences Is the Topic Sentence First or Second? | |
| Transitions and Topic Sentences in Second Position | |
| Testing Your Topic Sentence | |
| Rounding Up the Keys | |
| Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| Digging Deeper: Life Lessons from the Family Dog | |
| Identifying Topics and Topic Sentences | |
| Identifying Topics and Topic Sentences | |
| Identifying Topics and Topic Sentences | |
| Identifying Topics and Topic Sentences | |
| Identifying Topics and Topic Sentences | |
| Paraphrasing | |
| Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| More on Topic Sentences | |
| Topic Sentences in Third Place | |
| Topic Sentences Closer to the Middle | |
| Topic Sentences at the End | |
| Get into the Habit of Paraphrasing Inaccurate Paraphrasing Why Paraphrasing Works | |
| Rounding Up the Keys | |
| Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| Digging Deeper: Family Ties | |
| Reviewing the Key Points | |
| Recognizing Topic Sentences | |
| Recognizing Topic Sentences | |
| Recognizing Topic Sentences | |
| Recognizing Topic Sentences | |
| Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| Working Together: Topic Sentences and Supporting Details | |
| The Function of Supporting Details Supporting Details Clarify, Explain, and Convince | |
| Major and Minor Details Major Details Minor Details Evaluating Minor Details | |
| Clues to Major Details in Topic Sentences | |
| Topic Sentences, Transitions, and Major Details | |
| Paraphrasing and Note-Taking | |
| Rounding Up the Keys | |
| Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| Digging Deeper: Killer Waves | |
| Reviewing the Key Points | |
| Recognizing Supporting Details | |
| Recognizing Supporting Details | |
| Taking Notes on Paragraphs | |
| Understanding Major and Minor Details | |
| Recognizing Major and Minor Details | |
| Writing Summaries | |
| Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| Drawing Inferences About Implied Main Ideas | |
| Inferring Main Ideas | |
| Effective and Ineffective Inferences Avoiding a Communication Breakdown | |
| Allusions and Inferences | |
| Rounding Up the Keys | |
| Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| Digging Deeper | |
| Reviewing the Key Points | |
| Identifying the Implied Main Idea | |
| Identifying the Implied Main Idea | |
| Identifying the Implied Main Idea | |
| Inferring the Implied Main Idea | |
| Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
| Time Order Process Sequence of Dates and Events | |
| Simple Listing | |
| Definition | |
| Cause and Effect | |
| Comparison and Contrast | |
| Classification | |
| Rounding Up the Keys | |
| Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| Digging Deeper: The Origins of Cinco de Mayo | |
| Test 1 | |
| Patterns and Topic Sentences | |
| Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
| Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
| Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
| Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
| Developing a Textbook Vocabulary | |
| Mixing and Matching Patterns | |
| Pure Versus Mixed Patterns | |
| Combining Patterns in Longer Readings Patterns and the Implied Main Idea Deciding What's Important | |
| Common Combinations | |
| Rounding Up the Keys | |
| Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| Digging Deeper | |
| Reviewing the Key Points | |
| Recognizing Patterns in Paragraphs | |
| Recognizing Patterns in Paragraphs | |
| Recognizing Patterns in Paragraphs | |
| Recognizing Mixed Patterns in Longer Readings | |
| Recognizing Mixed Patterns in Longer Readings | |
| Recognizing Mixed Patterns in Longer Readings | |
| Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| From Comprehension to Critical Reading | |
| Informative Versus Persuasive Writing Characteristics of Informative Writing | |
| Characteristics of Persuasive Writing | |
| When Bias Goes Overboard | |
| Rounding Up the Key Points | |
| Ten More Words for Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| Digging Deeper | |
| Reviewing the Key Points | |
| Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion | |
| Fact, Opinion, or Both | |
| Recognizing Tone and Purpose | |
| Evaluating Bias | |
| Developing Your Textbook Vocabulary | |
| Combining Your Skills | |
| The Seven-Day Antiprocrastination Plan | |
| Culture, Subcultures, and the Marketplace | |
| The Demise of Dating | |
| Good Grief | |
| Backlash: Women Bullying Women in the Workplace | |
| Nonjudgmental and Critical Listening | |
| What Makes a Hero? | |
| Taylor's Miracle | |
| Online Therapy | |
| Checking the Stats | |
| Appendix Dictionaries, Online and in Print | |
| Index | |
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