Racing Ahead With Reading
by Mather, Peter; McCarthy, RitaEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-24
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary
Designed to help students race forward in their reading skills, this introductory text uses the theme of sports (integrated through reading selections, visuals, and exercises) to help students develop the skills they need to tackle college-level reading.Racing Ahead with Readingfeatures clear and thorough explanations, a wide array of exercises and activities, and a range of engaging reading selections of the types students are likely to encounter in college all to engage attention and inspire students to read with care and enthusiasm.
Table of Contents
| Racing Ahead with Reading | |
| Tackling the Basics | |
| Getting Warmed Up Introduction Getting Started Reading: How Can I Get an A in This Class? | |
| Walter Cunningham Getting Acquainted with Your Textbook Reading: Best Seat in the House | |
| Warm-Up 1 Phonics: Consonants and Vowels, Syllabication Phonics—A Review Consonants Vowels The Schwa Phonics Irregularities Phonics: Practice Rules for Dividing Words into Syllables Syllables Reading: How a Prince Learned to Read | |
| Warm-Up 2 -- Word Structure: Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots Word Parts Exercises on prefixes, suffixes, and roots Word Parts: Practice Synonyms and Antonyms: A Review Synonyms and Antonyms: Practice Reading: How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphics | |
| Warm-Up 3 tDictionary Dictionaries An Up-to-Date Dictionary Completeness of the Dictionary Using a Dictionary Definitions of Words Context Clues Definition Clues Synonym Clues Explanation Clues Examples Clues Antonym Clues Reading: excerpt from Life is Not a Fairy Tale | |
| Reading: Doing What Comes Naturally | |
| Warm-Up 4 Study Skills: Skimming, Scanning, SQ3R An Overview fo SQ3R Practice with SQ3R Reading: Using Time Effectively | |
| Using Your Computer and the Internet Reading: Moving Beyond Your Computer | |
| Scanning Techniques for Scanning Reading: Bat''s New Image | |
| Discovering Meaning through Structure | |
| Identifying Topics, Directly Stated Main Ideas, Working with Supporting Details Topic Distinguishing between General and Specific Main Ideas and Details Paragraph Diagrams Reading: Should We Believe the Claims of Psychics? | |
| Implied Main Ideas and Paraphrasing Implied Main Ideas Paraphrasing Strategies for Identifying the Implied Main Idea Asking Questions Combining Sentences Summing Up Ideas in One Sentence Making Sure You Have Correctly Identified the Implied Main Idea Reading: Fishin'' Superstition: It''s More Than Just Luck | |
| AP Reading: Hope Diamond | |
| Reading: Stadium Nights | |
| Identifying Directly Stated Main Idea | |
| Identifying Implied Main Idea | |
| Identifying the Main Idea | |
| Recognizing Transition Words and Patterns of Organization Transition Words Common Patterns of Organization Classification and Division Pattern Cause and Effect Pattern Reading: Heroes | |
| Steps in a Process and Chronology Pattern Definition and Example Pattern Reading: excerpt from Between a Rock and a Hard Place | |
| Reading: Stand Up for Yourself | |
| Identifying the Author''s Tone and Purpose Identifying Tone Wroking with Irony Satire Reading: Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink (for Free) | |
| Determining the Author''s Purpose Writing to Inform Writing to Entertain Writing to Persuade Reading: Love and the Cabie | |
| Reading: excerpt from It''s Not About the Bike | |
| Reading: The Big Hero of Littleton | |
| Interpreting What We Read | |
| Inference Inference Drawing Inferences from Droodles Drawing Inferences froM Epitaphs Drawing Inferences from Textbook Material Drawing Inferences from Popular Literature Reading: Beware of the Dog | |
| Reading: excerpt from The Right Words at the Right Time | |
| Figurative Language Figurative Language Types of Figurative Language Similes Metaphors Personification Extended Metaphor Working with Symbols Reading: Sympathy | |
| Dunbar Imagery Reading: Thunderbolts | |
| Fact and Opinion Fact and Opinion Clues to Identifying an Opinion Reading: The Lie Detector Controversy | |
| Reading: Integration in Sports | |
| Bias Bias Denotation and Connotation Point of View Reading: Somebody''s Baby | |
| Euphemisms Reading: Lizzie Borden: Victorian Woman and Murder | |
| Reading: What''s So Great about America? | |
| Reading: For Conversation, Press #1 | |
| Reading: Eyewitness Testimony: Can We Trust It? | |
| Understanding Textbook Material | |
| Visual Aids How to Use and Interpret Various Types of Visual Aids Bar Graphs: Vertical and Horizontl Tables Pie Charts Maps Diagrams Line Graphs Flow Charts Photos Cartoons Reading: Uses and Misuses of Credit | |
| Textbook Selections Annotating, Outlining, Mapping, and Summarizing Underlining and Highlighting Annotating Outlining Mapping Summarizing Reading: Memorization | |
| Reading: The Psychology of Personality | |
| Supplementary Readings | |
| World of Work; Relationships and behavior | |
| The World of Work Abraham Lincoln Denies a Loan | |
| The Fence That Me and Shorty Built | |
| How Not to Dress for Work | |
| Hershey''s Chocolate | |
| Relationships And Behavior Social Influence: Conformity and Obedience | |
| The Emperor''s New Clothes | |
| The Lottery | |
| Morrow | |
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