READING COMPREHENSION SUCCESS
[Pages:192]READING COMPREHENSION
SUCCESS
IN 20 MINUTES A DAY
READING COMPREHENSION SUCCESS
IN 20 MINUTES A DAY
3rd Edition
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Contents
INTRODUCTION How to Use This Book
ix
PRETEST
1
BUILDING A STRONG FOUNDATION
LESSON 1
Getting the Essential Information
19
How to be an active reader, picking up clues in what you read
LESSON 2
Finding the Main Idea
27
Looking beyond the facts, considering the author's motive
LESSON 3
Defining Vocabulary in Context
33
Dealing with unfamiliar words without a dictionary
LESSON 4
The Difference between Fact and Opinion
39
Distinguishing between what an author knows and what an author
believes to be true
LESSON 5
Putting It All Together
45
Practice in combining the skills you've learned in Lessons 1?4
v
?CONTENTS?
STRUCTURE LESSON 6
LESSON 7 LESSON 8 LESSON 9 LESSON 10
Start from the Beginning: Chronological Order
53
Working through passages that start at the beginning and finish at the end
of a sequence of events
Order of Importance
61
Using the order in the writing to determine what is most important to the author
Similarities and Differences: Compare and Contrast
67
Using comparisons to determine the author's attitude
Why Do Things Happen? A Look at Cause and Effect
73
The relationship between action and reaction
Being Structurally Sound: Putting It All Together
81
Reviews Lessons 6?9, including identifying the structure used;
practice with combined structures
LANGUAGE AND STYLE
LESSON 11
A Matter of Perspective: Point of View
89
Purposes of first-, second-, and third-person writing
LESSON 12
Diction: What's in a Word?
95
Defining tone from the choice of words
LESSON 13
Style: It's Not What They Say but How They Say It
101
Sentence structure; degree of detail, description, and formality
LESSON 14
How They Say It, Part Two: Tone
107
How tone influences meaning
LESSON 15
Word Power: Putting It All Together
111
Reviews Lessons 11?14
READING BETWEEN THE LINES
LESSON 16
Finding the Implied Main Idea
119
Making inferences, determining an unstated purpose
LESSON 17
Assuming Causes and Predicting Effects
125
Reading between the lines, implied action and reaction
LESSON 18
Emotional Versus Logical Appeals
131
Being aware of strong and weak arguments
vi
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LESSON 19
Finding Meaning in Literature
137
Identifying themes, working with poetry
LESSON 20
Drawing Conclusions: Putting It All Together
143
Reviews Lessons 1?19
POSTTEST
149
APPENDIX A
Preparing for a Standardized Test
169
APPENDIX B
Additional Resources
175
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