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List of contents
(NOTE:Each chapter concludes with a summary.)
1. Strategies for Active Reading.
Insist on Meaning. Formulate Questions and Look for Answers. Read Between the Lines. Get Involved. Separate “Business” Reading from Recreational Reading. Bring Information to Get Information. Read!
2. Strategies for Learning New Words.
Use Print Clues-Punctuation and Pictures. Use Context Clues. Use Clues from Word Parts. Use the Dictionary. Use Persistence. Keep Reading! Techniques for Remembering New Words.
3. Strategies to Get the Point and Make Sense of the Details.
Distinguish between General and Specific Sentences. Identify the Controlling Idea. Supply the Topic Sentence When There Is None. Use the Controlling Idea to Predict the Details. Relate the Details to the Controlling Idea. Relate Details to Other Details. Use the Same Strategies for Longer Selections.
4. Strategies for Clear Thinking.
Use the Same Strategies for Longer Selections. Use the Topic Sentence. Use the Signal Words.
5. Strategies for Reading and Remembering Textbooks.
Prepare to Concentrate. Understand Before You Try to Remember. Ask Questions to Select the Most Important Points. Get More Information. Organize the Details and Write When You Read. Recite It!
6. Strategies for Critical Reading.
Ask the Questions: “What is the issue?” and “What is the conclusion?” Ask, “What are the author's reasons?” Be Alert to Bad Reasoning. Be Alert to Facts and Opinions. Be Alert to the Author's Language.
Anthology.
Group on TV Violence Not Amused by Music Videos. Cigarette Makers Are Getting Away with Murder. Fathers Playing Catch with Sons. Would You Obey a Hitler? To Die or Not to Die, That Is the Question; Why Fret over Killers? Kill Killers-and the Innocent too? Thanksgiving and Five Red Apples. Aren't I a Woman? I Know Who I Am. My Philosophy. UFOs. Son Is Still First Choice. With Tabloids, “Zip! You're in Another World!” What Are Our Real Values? The Debate: Buckling Up. Family Heroes. Send in the Nouns-Mr. Language Is on Duty. How It Feels to Be Colored Me. Dangerous Lessons? We're Tongue-Tied. I Never Had It Made. The Photograph of 1948. The Debate: Blacks and Baseball. Learning to Care. The American Family in the Year 2000.
Appendices.
Summary
Appropriate for a one semester/quarter course in Fundamentals of Reading. May be used by ESL students as well as native speakers.
esigned to give students who are not yet comfortable with college-level materials an opportunity to become independent and active readers. Offers clear, well-organized, instructional strategies accompanied by many opportunities for guided practice. Includes an anthology of high-interest selections for further practice.
