READING COMPREHENSION SUCCESS

[Pages:192]READING COMPREHENSION

SUCCESS

IN 20 MINUTES A DAY

READING COMPREHENSION SUCCESS

IN 20 MINUTES A DAY

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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

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?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

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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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