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This brief, low-priced reading primer covers the major reading skills necessary for success while providing meaningful strategies and practice for reading real materials: newspapers, magazines, novels, textbook chapters, and the internet.
CHAPTER ONE: VOCABULARY STRATEGIES
Vocabulary Strategies Overview
A. Context Clues
1. Definition Clues
2. Example Clues
3. Contrast Clues
4. Inference Clues
B. Word Analysis
1. Syllabication
2. Root Words, Prefixes, Suffixes
3. Latin and Greek
C. Denotation and Connotation
CHAPTER TWO: BASIC COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES
Comprehension Strategies Overview
A. Identifying Topics
B. Identifying Main Ideas
C. Identifying Details
D. Improving Comprehension
CHAPTER THREE: TEXTBOOK STRATEGIES
Textbook Strategies Overview
A. Identifying and Using Textbook Organizational Aids
B. Textbook Reading Methods
1. SQ3R
2. 3C
3. Triple Highlighting
C. Skimming and Scanning
CHAPTER FOUR: CRITICAL READING STRATEGIES
Critical Reading Strategies Overview
A. Predicting, Making Inferences, and Drawing Conclusions
1. Predicting
2. Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
Part B Critical Reading Strategies Overview
B. Analyzing and Synthesizing
1. Identifying Writer's Purpose
2. Fact and Opinion
3. Judging Validity
4. Identifying Author Attitudes, Bias, Tone and Assumptions
CHAPTER FIVE: FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE STRATEGIES
Figurative Language Strategies Overview
A. Metaphor and Simile
B. Personification
C. Hyperbole
CHAPTER SIX: PATTERNS OF ORGANIZATION STRATEGIES
Patterns of Organization Strategies Overview
A. Narration Example
B. Description Example
C. Process Analysis Example
D. Classification Example
E. Comparison/Contrast Example
F. Cause and Effect Example
G. Definition Example
CHAPTER SEVEN: GRAPHIC ORGANIZER STRATEGIES
Graphic Organizer Strategies Overview
A. KWL
B. Concept Web (or The Five W's)
C. Cause and Effect Chain
CHAPTER EIGHT: COMPUTER READING AND WRITING STRATEGIES
Computer Reading and Writing Strategies Overview
A. How to Search the Internet
B. Evaluating Web Sites
C. Word Processing Basics - A Reference Guide