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CONNECT READING provides a personalized learning plan for each student, continually developed and refined as students achieve mastery. Each student plan is created through an individualized diagnostic that evaluates skills from 7th-grade level through college-readiness, for second-language learners, international students, adult students, and traditional high-schoolers. Offered completely online, CONNECT READING can be used in conjunction with EXPERIENCE READING BOOK 1 or EXPERIENCE READING BOOK 2, which provide a printed experience that teaches and strengthens comprehension and critical reading skills. Experience Reading uses authentic material allowing students to unlock textbook content across academic disciplines.
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- Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
- Seitenzahl: 640
- Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2011
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- Gewicht: 1089g
- ISBN-13: 9780073407159
- ISBN-10: 0073407151
- Artikelnr.: 32728295
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
- Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
- Seitenzahl: 640
- Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2011
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 251mm x 201mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 1089g
- ISBN-13: 9780073407159
- ISBN-10: 0073407151
- Artikelnr.: 32728295
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
Suzanne Liff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Reading and Basic Education at Nassau Community College. An educator for over thirty years, Suzanne holds advanced degrees in Special Education, and Educational Administration and Supervision from Queens College. A former district-wide chairperson of secondary special ed, Suzanne has taught virtually every grade level of student from preschool through adult, focusing on the learning, affective, behavioral and metacognitive needs of students. She has presented to parents and colleagues, locally and nationally, on topics including cognitive and learning style differences, study and organizational strategies, effective classroom management and pedagogy, successful transition from high school to college, and social and emotional intelligence and the developmental learner; her current area of focus and research. Her original works have been published for college wide distribution as well in several professsional, juried journals. Suzanne teaches several developmental college reading classes, and coordinates and/or chairs a variety of college programs and faculty committees at NCC. She also maintains a private practice for psychoeducational evaluation and intervention. Suzanne has been awarded honorary lifetime membership in NY State SEPTA, is a 2003 recipient of the Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award, and Nassau County Citation for dedication and service.
Part I: The Personal Side of Reading
Chapter 1: It's Up To You: Taking Ownership of College Reading
Choosing Success
Selection: Success is a Choice by Rick Pitino
Being a Successful Student
Goal Setting
Time Management
Monitor Your Progress
What's Your Style?
Selection: Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Model by Rita and Ken DunnYou're on
Your Way
Selection: This Is Not Your High School English Class by Mark Moring
Wrap It Up
Part II: Comprehension and Critical Reading Skills Review
Chapter 2 Are You Ready to READ? Active Reading
Strategies for Managing College Texts
Survey Your Textbook
Access Prior Knowledge
Preview a Selection
THIEVESReading for a Purpose: Asking and Answering Your Own Questions
Preview Questions
Guide Questions
Monitoring Questions
Study Questions
Manage Your Textbook: Highlighting, Annotating, and Marginal Notes
Highlighting
Annotating, and Marginal Notes
Wrap It Up
Chapter 3 Lost in Translation: Developing a College Level Vocabulary
Discipline-Specific VocabularyAcademic VocabularySelection: LanguageUsing
Context Clues to Learn the Meaning of Words
Definition Clues
Synonym Clues
Contrast and Antonyms Clues
Example Clues
Inference Clues
A Word About Word Parts
Prefixes
Roots
Suffixes
Compound Words
Using Dictionaries
Using textbook Glossaries
Using a Thesaurus
Figurative Language
Metaphors
Similes
Personification
Hyperbole
Idioms
Techniques for Learning VocabularyWrap It Up
Chapter 4 What's the BIG Idea? Identifying the Main Idea in College Reading
The Main IdeaTwo Steps for Identifying the Main Idea
Step 1: Identify the Topic
Step 2: Determine the Main Idea
Finding the Stated Main Idea in Paragraphs: Topic Sentences
Finding the Stated Main Idea in Readings: Thesis Statements Selection: The
Dimensions of HealthImplied Main IdeasFinding the Unstated (Implied) Main
Idea in Paragraphs Wrap It Up
Chapter 5 Backing Up the BIG Idea: Finding and Using the Important Details
in College Reading
Finding and Using Important DetailsIdentifying Supporting DetailsUsing
Transitions to Locate Supporting DetailsTypes of Transitions
Additional Items
Examples
Explanations and Examples
Sequence
Comparison and Contrast
Studying Supporting DetailsWrap It Up
Chapter 6 What is the Author's Plan of Action?
Identifying and Integrating Writing Patterns
Organizational Patterns in Textbook Writing
Definition Pattern
Listing or Enumeration Pattern
Sequence Pattern
Chronological Order
Process Order
Spatial Order
Order of Importance
Classification Pattern
Comparison and Contrast Pattern
Keep This in Mind
Cause and Effect Pattern
Mixed Patterns
Keep This In Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 7 Let's Get Critical: Making Inferences and
Incorporating Critical Reading Skills
Critical Reading
Making Inferences
Keep This in Mind
Determining an Author's Purpose for Writing
Writing to Inform
Writing to Instruct
Writing to Entertain
Writing to Persuade
Consider the Audience
Distinguishing Between Facts and Opinions
Facts
Opinions
Facts and Opinions
Detecting the Tone
Denotation and Connotation
Keep This in Mind
Recognizing Bias
Evaluating the Author's Argument
Keep This in Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 8 What About the Web? Evaluating Web Resources
Critical Reading Online
Before You Start: Select a Topic
Starting Your Research: Use Key Words
Craft Your Thesis
Evaluating Web Resources
Purpose and Authority
Currency
Accuracy
MLA and APA Works Cited Models
MLA Documentation
APA Documentation
The Value of the Internet
Wrap It Up
Chapter 9 Lights, Camera, and Action! Rehearsing the
Information
Paraphrasing
Keep This in Mind
Outlining
Keep This in Mind
Summarizing
Keep This in Mind
Using Visuals to Organize Information
Concept Maps
Charts
Timelines
Process Diagram and Flow Chart
Venn Diagrams
Keep This in Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 10 SOS, Searching Other Sources: Reading Across the Genres
Reading Across Genres
Reading Newspaper Articles
Selection: McDonald's Tries to Bottle Paul Newman, Marian Burros.
Reading Essays
Selection: Unhappy Meals, Michael PollanReading Academic Journals Features
of Academic Journal Articles
Selection: Ray Kroc (1902-1984): Flipping Over Efficiency, Meryl Davids
Understanding Primary Resources
Understanding Literature: Novels
Selection: excerpt from The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Adjusting Your Reading Rate to Meet Your Needs
Keep This in Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 11 Show What You Know: Become an Effective Test Taker
Taking Exams
Preparing for Exams
Selection: How I Got My BA by Sheer Luck by Walter Pauk
Exam Formats
Objective Questions
Essay Questions
Reducing Test Anxiety
Tips for Reducing Test Anxiety
Selection: Dealing with Physical Tensions Internet Source
Wrap It Up
Chapter 12 Application of Skills Project: Active Textbook Reading
Survey a Textbook
Preview a Chapter
Guided Reading
Reciting and Rehearsing
Evaluate the Process
Textbook Chapter: "What Then Shall We Do," from
Environmental Science
Part III: Modules: Theme-Based Reading Selections
Module 1 Food and Nutrition
Get Acquainted with the Issue
Guided Reading: A Plateful of Myths by Barry Glassner
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Japanese Food Pyramid Revised to Take Account of
Eating Out by Stephen Clapp
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Health The New Dietary
Guidelines for Americans
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 2 Stress
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Taming the Stress Monster by
Terri D"Arrigo
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Finals Lead as Source of Stress for College
Students, Chicago Newswire
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Criminal Justice Job
Stress
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 3 Medical Ethics
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Pillow Angel Ethics by Nancy
Gibbs
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: A Question of Ethics by Jane Goodall
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Biology Ethical Issues
Raised by Gene Therapy
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 4 Body Language
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Business Communication: How to
Bridge the Gender Gap by Candy Tymson
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Body Language Speaks: Reading and Responding More
Effectively to Hidden Communication by Anne E. Beall
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading Textbook Reading Selection: Communications Nonverbal
Communication in Everyday Life
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 5 The Job Market
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: They're So Vein: Tapping A Job
Market by Gabe Opperheim
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Tomorrow's Jobs from the Occupational Outlook
Handbook
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Business The Interview
Process
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 6 The Media
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Beauty and Body Image in the
Media, Media Awareness Network, www.media- awareness.ca
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Adolescents' TV Watching is Linked to Violent
Behavior by Rosie Mestel
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: American History The Birth
of Television
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 7 Social Networks
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Online Social Networking
Issues within Academia... by Jeff Cain
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: We Just Clicked by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and Coco
Masters
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Sociology Controlling
Love: American Mate Selection
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 8 The Environment
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: The Green Mirage by Rick
Newman
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: The Green Campus: How to Teach New Respect for the
Environment? The 3 R's: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, Reuse and Recycle by
Anne Underwood
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Environmental Science What
Can Individuals Do? "Green Washing" Can Mislead Consumers
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Chapter 1: It's Up To You: Taking Ownership of College Reading
Choosing Success
Selection: Success is a Choice by Rick Pitino
Being a Successful Student
Goal Setting
Time Management
Monitor Your Progress
What's Your Style?
Selection: Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Model by Rita and Ken DunnYou're on
Your Way
Selection: This Is Not Your High School English Class by Mark Moring
Wrap It Up
Part II: Comprehension and Critical Reading Skills Review
Chapter 2 Are You Ready to READ? Active Reading
Strategies for Managing College Texts
Survey Your Textbook
Access Prior Knowledge
Preview a Selection
THIEVESReading for a Purpose: Asking and Answering Your Own Questions
Preview Questions
Guide Questions
Monitoring Questions
Study Questions
Manage Your Textbook: Highlighting, Annotating, and Marginal Notes
Highlighting
Annotating, and Marginal Notes
Wrap It Up
Chapter 3 Lost in Translation: Developing a College Level Vocabulary
Discipline-Specific VocabularyAcademic VocabularySelection: LanguageUsing
Context Clues to Learn the Meaning of Words
Definition Clues
Synonym Clues
Contrast and Antonyms Clues
Example Clues
Inference Clues
A Word About Word Parts
Prefixes
Roots
Suffixes
Compound Words
Using Dictionaries
Using textbook Glossaries
Using a Thesaurus
Figurative Language
Metaphors
Similes
Personification
Hyperbole
Idioms
Techniques for Learning VocabularyWrap It Up
Chapter 4 What's the BIG Idea? Identifying the Main Idea in College Reading
The Main IdeaTwo Steps for Identifying the Main Idea
Step 1: Identify the Topic
Step 2: Determine the Main Idea
Finding the Stated Main Idea in Paragraphs: Topic Sentences
Finding the Stated Main Idea in Readings: Thesis Statements Selection: The
Dimensions of HealthImplied Main IdeasFinding the Unstated (Implied) Main
Idea in Paragraphs Wrap It Up
Chapter 5 Backing Up the BIG Idea: Finding and Using the Important Details
in College Reading
Finding and Using Important DetailsIdentifying Supporting DetailsUsing
Transitions to Locate Supporting DetailsTypes of Transitions
Additional Items
Examples
Explanations and Examples
Sequence
Comparison and Contrast
Studying Supporting DetailsWrap It Up
Chapter 6 What is the Author's Plan of Action?
Identifying and Integrating Writing Patterns
Organizational Patterns in Textbook Writing
Definition Pattern
Listing or Enumeration Pattern
Sequence Pattern
Chronological Order
Process Order
Spatial Order
Order of Importance
Classification Pattern
Comparison and Contrast Pattern
Keep This in Mind
Cause and Effect Pattern
Mixed Patterns
Keep This In Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 7 Let's Get Critical: Making Inferences and
Incorporating Critical Reading Skills
Critical Reading
Making Inferences
Keep This in Mind
Determining an Author's Purpose for Writing
Writing to Inform
Writing to Instruct
Writing to Entertain
Writing to Persuade
Consider the Audience
Distinguishing Between Facts and Opinions
Facts
Opinions
Facts and Opinions
Detecting the Tone
Denotation and Connotation
Keep This in Mind
Recognizing Bias
Evaluating the Author's Argument
Keep This in Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 8 What About the Web? Evaluating Web Resources
Critical Reading Online
Before You Start: Select a Topic
Starting Your Research: Use Key Words
Craft Your Thesis
Evaluating Web Resources
Purpose and Authority
Currency
Accuracy
MLA and APA Works Cited Models
MLA Documentation
APA Documentation
The Value of the Internet
Wrap It Up
Chapter 9 Lights, Camera, and Action! Rehearsing the
Information
Paraphrasing
Keep This in Mind
Outlining
Keep This in Mind
Summarizing
Keep This in Mind
Using Visuals to Organize Information
Concept Maps
Charts
Timelines
Process Diagram and Flow Chart
Venn Diagrams
Keep This in Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 10 SOS, Searching Other Sources: Reading Across the Genres
Reading Across Genres
Reading Newspaper Articles
Selection: McDonald's Tries to Bottle Paul Newman, Marian Burros.
Reading Essays
Selection: Unhappy Meals, Michael PollanReading Academic Journals Features
of Academic Journal Articles
Selection: Ray Kroc (1902-1984): Flipping Over Efficiency, Meryl Davids
Understanding Primary Resources
Understanding Literature: Novels
Selection: excerpt from The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Adjusting Your Reading Rate to Meet Your Needs
Keep This in Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 11 Show What You Know: Become an Effective Test Taker
Taking Exams
Preparing for Exams
Selection: How I Got My BA by Sheer Luck by Walter Pauk
Exam Formats
Objective Questions
Essay Questions
Reducing Test Anxiety
Tips for Reducing Test Anxiety
Selection: Dealing with Physical Tensions Internet Source
Wrap It Up
Chapter 12 Application of Skills Project: Active Textbook Reading
Survey a Textbook
Preview a Chapter
Guided Reading
Reciting and Rehearsing
Evaluate the Process
Textbook Chapter: "What Then Shall We Do," from
Environmental Science
Part III: Modules: Theme-Based Reading Selections
Module 1 Food and Nutrition
Get Acquainted with the Issue
Guided Reading: A Plateful of Myths by Barry Glassner
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Japanese Food Pyramid Revised to Take Account of
Eating Out by Stephen Clapp
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Health The New Dietary
Guidelines for Americans
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 2 Stress
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Taming the Stress Monster by
Terri D"Arrigo
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Finals Lead as Source of Stress for College
Students, Chicago Newswire
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Criminal Justice Job
Stress
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 3 Medical Ethics
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Pillow Angel Ethics by Nancy
Gibbs
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: A Question of Ethics by Jane Goodall
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Biology Ethical Issues
Raised by Gene Therapy
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 4 Body Language
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Business Communication: How to
Bridge the Gender Gap by Candy Tymson
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Body Language Speaks: Reading and Responding More
Effectively to Hidden Communication by Anne E. Beall
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading Textbook Reading Selection: Communications Nonverbal
Communication in Everyday Life
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 5 The Job Market
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: They're So Vein: Tapping A Job
Market by Gabe Opperheim
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Tomorrow's Jobs from the Occupational Outlook
Handbook
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Business The Interview
Process
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 6 The Media
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Beauty and Body Image in the
Media, Media Awareness Network, www.media- awareness.ca
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Adolescents' TV Watching is Linked to Violent
Behavior by Rosie Mestel
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: American History The Birth
of Television
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 7 Social Networks
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Online Social Networking
Issues within Academia... by Jeff Cain
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: We Just Clicked by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and Coco
Masters
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Sociology Controlling
Love: American Mate Selection
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 8 The Environment
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: The Green Mirage by Rick
Newman
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: The Green Campus: How to Teach New Respect for the
Environment? The 3 R's: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, Reuse and Recycle by
Anne Underwood
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Environmental Science What
Can Individuals Do? "Green Washing" Can Mislead Consumers
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Part I: The Personal Side of Reading
Chapter 1: It's Up To You: Taking Ownership of College Reading
Choosing Success
Selection: Success is a Choice by Rick Pitino
Being a Successful Student
Goal Setting
Time Management
Monitor Your Progress
What's Your Style?
Selection: Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Model by Rita and Ken DunnYou're on
Your Way
Selection: This Is Not Your High School English Class by Mark Moring
Wrap It Up
Part II: Comprehension and Critical Reading Skills Review
Chapter 2 Are You Ready to READ? Active Reading
Strategies for Managing College Texts
Survey Your Textbook
Access Prior Knowledge
Preview a Selection
THIEVESReading for a Purpose: Asking and Answering Your Own Questions
Preview Questions
Guide Questions
Monitoring Questions
Study Questions
Manage Your Textbook: Highlighting, Annotating, and Marginal Notes
Highlighting
Annotating, and Marginal Notes
Wrap It Up
Chapter 3 Lost in Translation: Developing a College Level Vocabulary
Discipline-Specific VocabularyAcademic VocabularySelection: LanguageUsing
Context Clues to Learn the Meaning of Words
Definition Clues
Synonym Clues
Contrast and Antonyms Clues
Example Clues
Inference Clues
A Word About Word Parts
Prefixes
Roots
Suffixes
Compound Words
Using Dictionaries
Using textbook Glossaries
Using a Thesaurus
Figurative Language
Metaphors
Similes
Personification
Hyperbole
Idioms
Techniques for Learning VocabularyWrap It Up
Chapter 4 What's the BIG Idea? Identifying the Main Idea in College Reading
The Main IdeaTwo Steps for Identifying the Main Idea
Step 1: Identify the Topic
Step 2: Determine the Main Idea
Finding the Stated Main Idea in Paragraphs: Topic Sentences
Finding the Stated Main Idea in Readings: Thesis Statements Selection: The
Dimensions of HealthImplied Main IdeasFinding the Unstated (Implied) Main
Idea in Paragraphs Wrap It Up
Chapter 5 Backing Up the BIG Idea: Finding and Using the Important Details
in College Reading
Finding and Using Important DetailsIdentifying Supporting DetailsUsing
Transitions to Locate Supporting DetailsTypes of Transitions
Additional Items
Examples
Explanations and Examples
Sequence
Comparison and Contrast
Studying Supporting DetailsWrap It Up
Chapter 6 What is the Author's Plan of Action?
Identifying and Integrating Writing Patterns
Organizational Patterns in Textbook Writing
Definition Pattern
Listing or Enumeration Pattern
Sequence Pattern
Chronological Order
Process Order
Spatial Order
Order of Importance
Classification Pattern
Comparison and Contrast Pattern
Keep This in Mind
Cause and Effect Pattern
Mixed Patterns
Keep This In Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 7 Let's Get Critical: Making Inferences and
Incorporating Critical Reading Skills
Critical Reading
Making Inferences
Keep This in Mind
Determining an Author's Purpose for Writing
Writing to Inform
Writing to Instruct
Writing to Entertain
Writing to Persuade
Consider the Audience
Distinguishing Between Facts and Opinions
Facts
Opinions
Facts and Opinions
Detecting the Tone
Denotation and Connotation
Keep This in Mind
Recognizing Bias
Evaluating the Author's Argument
Keep This in Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 8 What About the Web? Evaluating Web Resources
Critical Reading Online
Before You Start: Select a Topic
Starting Your Research: Use Key Words
Craft Your Thesis
Evaluating Web Resources
Purpose and Authority
Currency
Accuracy
MLA and APA Works Cited Models
MLA Documentation
APA Documentation
The Value of the Internet
Wrap It Up
Chapter 9 Lights, Camera, and Action! Rehearsing the
Information
Paraphrasing
Keep This in Mind
Outlining
Keep This in Mind
Summarizing
Keep This in Mind
Using Visuals to Organize Information
Concept Maps
Charts
Timelines
Process Diagram and Flow Chart
Venn Diagrams
Keep This in Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 10 SOS, Searching Other Sources: Reading Across the Genres
Reading Across Genres
Reading Newspaper Articles
Selection: McDonald's Tries to Bottle Paul Newman, Marian Burros.
Reading Essays
Selection: Unhappy Meals, Michael PollanReading Academic Journals Features
of Academic Journal Articles
Selection: Ray Kroc (1902-1984): Flipping Over Efficiency, Meryl Davids
Understanding Primary Resources
Understanding Literature: Novels
Selection: excerpt from The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Adjusting Your Reading Rate to Meet Your Needs
Keep This in Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 11 Show What You Know: Become an Effective Test Taker
Taking Exams
Preparing for Exams
Selection: How I Got My BA by Sheer Luck by Walter Pauk
Exam Formats
Objective Questions
Essay Questions
Reducing Test Anxiety
Tips for Reducing Test Anxiety
Selection: Dealing with Physical Tensions Internet Source
Wrap It Up
Chapter 12 Application of Skills Project: Active Textbook Reading
Survey a Textbook
Preview a Chapter
Guided Reading
Reciting and Rehearsing
Evaluate the Process
Textbook Chapter: "What Then Shall We Do," from
Environmental Science
Part III: Modules: Theme-Based Reading Selections
Module 1 Food and Nutrition
Get Acquainted with the Issue
Guided Reading: A Plateful of Myths by Barry Glassner
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Japanese Food Pyramid Revised to Take Account of
Eating Out by Stephen Clapp
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Health The New Dietary
Guidelines for Americans
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 2 Stress
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Taming the Stress Monster by
Terri D"Arrigo
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Finals Lead as Source of Stress for College
Students, Chicago Newswire
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Criminal Justice Job
Stress
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 3 Medical Ethics
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Pillow Angel Ethics by Nancy
Gibbs
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: A Question of Ethics by Jane Goodall
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Biology Ethical Issues
Raised by Gene Therapy
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 4 Body Language
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Business Communication: How to
Bridge the Gender Gap by Candy Tymson
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Body Language Speaks: Reading and Responding More
Effectively to Hidden Communication by Anne E. Beall
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading Textbook Reading Selection: Communications Nonverbal
Communication in Everyday Life
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 5 The Job Market
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: They're So Vein: Tapping A Job
Market by Gabe Opperheim
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Tomorrow's Jobs from the Occupational Outlook
Handbook
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Business The Interview
Process
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 6 The Media
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Beauty and Body Image in the
Media, Media Awareness Network, www.media- awareness.ca
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Adolescents' TV Watching is Linked to Violent
Behavior by Rosie Mestel
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: American History The Birth
of Television
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 7 Social Networks
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Online Social Networking
Issues within Academia... by Jeff Cain
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: We Just Clicked by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and Coco
Masters
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Sociology Controlling
Love: American Mate Selection
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 8 The Environment
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: The Green Mirage by Rick
Newman
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: The Green Campus: How to Teach New Respect for the
Environment? The 3 R's: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, Reuse and Recycle by
Anne Underwood
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Environmental Science What
Can Individuals Do? "Green Washing" Can Mislead Consumers
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Chapter 1: It's Up To You: Taking Ownership of College Reading
Choosing Success
Selection: Success is a Choice by Rick Pitino
Being a Successful Student
Goal Setting
Time Management
Monitor Your Progress
What's Your Style?
Selection: Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Model by Rita and Ken DunnYou're on
Your Way
Selection: This Is Not Your High School English Class by Mark Moring
Wrap It Up
Part II: Comprehension and Critical Reading Skills Review
Chapter 2 Are You Ready to READ? Active Reading
Strategies for Managing College Texts
Survey Your Textbook
Access Prior Knowledge
Preview a Selection
THIEVESReading for a Purpose: Asking and Answering Your Own Questions
Preview Questions
Guide Questions
Monitoring Questions
Study Questions
Manage Your Textbook: Highlighting, Annotating, and Marginal Notes
Highlighting
Annotating, and Marginal Notes
Wrap It Up
Chapter 3 Lost in Translation: Developing a College Level Vocabulary
Discipline-Specific VocabularyAcademic VocabularySelection: LanguageUsing
Context Clues to Learn the Meaning of Words
Definition Clues
Synonym Clues
Contrast and Antonyms Clues
Example Clues
Inference Clues
A Word About Word Parts
Prefixes
Roots
Suffixes
Compound Words
Using Dictionaries
Using textbook Glossaries
Using a Thesaurus
Figurative Language
Metaphors
Similes
Personification
Hyperbole
Idioms
Techniques for Learning VocabularyWrap It Up
Chapter 4 What's the BIG Idea? Identifying the Main Idea in College Reading
The Main IdeaTwo Steps for Identifying the Main Idea
Step 1: Identify the Topic
Step 2: Determine the Main Idea
Finding the Stated Main Idea in Paragraphs: Topic Sentences
Finding the Stated Main Idea in Readings: Thesis Statements Selection: The
Dimensions of HealthImplied Main IdeasFinding the Unstated (Implied) Main
Idea in Paragraphs Wrap It Up
Chapter 5 Backing Up the BIG Idea: Finding and Using the Important Details
in College Reading
Finding and Using Important DetailsIdentifying Supporting DetailsUsing
Transitions to Locate Supporting DetailsTypes of Transitions
Additional Items
Examples
Explanations and Examples
Sequence
Comparison and Contrast
Studying Supporting DetailsWrap It Up
Chapter 6 What is the Author's Plan of Action?
Identifying and Integrating Writing Patterns
Organizational Patterns in Textbook Writing
Definition Pattern
Listing or Enumeration Pattern
Sequence Pattern
Chronological Order
Process Order
Spatial Order
Order of Importance
Classification Pattern
Comparison and Contrast Pattern
Keep This in Mind
Cause and Effect Pattern
Mixed Patterns
Keep This In Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 7 Let's Get Critical: Making Inferences and
Incorporating Critical Reading Skills
Critical Reading
Making Inferences
Keep This in Mind
Determining an Author's Purpose for Writing
Writing to Inform
Writing to Instruct
Writing to Entertain
Writing to Persuade
Consider the Audience
Distinguishing Between Facts and Opinions
Facts
Opinions
Facts and Opinions
Detecting the Tone
Denotation and Connotation
Keep This in Mind
Recognizing Bias
Evaluating the Author's Argument
Keep This in Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 8 What About the Web? Evaluating Web Resources
Critical Reading Online
Before You Start: Select a Topic
Starting Your Research: Use Key Words
Craft Your Thesis
Evaluating Web Resources
Purpose and Authority
Currency
Accuracy
MLA and APA Works Cited Models
MLA Documentation
APA Documentation
The Value of the Internet
Wrap It Up
Chapter 9 Lights, Camera, and Action! Rehearsing the
Information
Paraphrasing
Keep This in Mind
Outlining
Keep This in Mind
Summarizing
Keep This in Mind
Using Visuals to Organize Information
Concept Maps
Charts
Timelines
Process Diagram and Flow Chart
Venn Diagrams
Keep This in Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 10 SOS, Searching Other Sources: Reading Across the Genres
Reading Across Genres
Reading Newspaper Articles
Selection: McDonald's Tries to Bottle Paul Newman, Marian Burros.
Reading Essays
Selection: Unhappy Meals, Michael PollanReading Academic Journals Features
of Academic Journal Articles
Selection: Ray Kroc (1902-1984): Flipping Over Efficiency, Meryl Davids
Understanding Primary Resources
Understanding Literature: Novels
Selection: excerpt from The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Adjusting Your Reading Rate to Meet Your Needs
Keep This in Mind
Wrap It Up
Chapter 11 Show What You Know: Become an Effective Test Taker
Taking Exams
Preparing for Exams
Selection: How I Got My BA by Sheer Luck by Walter Pauk
Exam Formats
Objective Questions
Essay Questions
Reducing Test Anxiety
Tips for Reducing Test Anxiety
Selection: Dealing with Physical Tensions Internet Source
Wrap It Up
Chapter 12 Application of Skills Project: Active Textbook Reading
Survey a Textbook
Preview a Chapter
Guided Reading
Reciting and Rehearsing
Evaluate the Process
Textbook Chapter: "What Then Shall We Do," from
Environmental Science
Part III: Modules: Theme-Based Reading Selections
Module 1 Food and Nutrition
Get Acquainted with the Issue
Guided Reading: A Plateful of Myths by Barry Glassner
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Japanese Food Pyramid Revised to Take Account of
Eating Out by Stephen Clapp
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Health The New Dietary
Guidelines for Americans
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 2 Stress
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Taming the Stress Monster by
Terri D"Arrigo
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Finals Lead as Source of Stress for College
Students, Chicago Newswire
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Criminal Justice Job
Stress
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 3 Medical Ethics
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Pillow Angel Ethics by Nancy
Gibbs
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: A Question of Ethics by Jane Goodall
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Biology Ethical Issues
Raised by Gene Therapy
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 4 Body Language
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Business Communication: How to
Bridge the Gender Gap by Candy Tymson
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Body Language Speaks: Reading and Responding More
Effectively to Hidden Communication by Anne E. Beall
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading Textbook Reading Selection: Communications Nonverbal
Communication in Everyday Life
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 5 The Job Market
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: They're So Vein: Tapping A Job
Market by Gabe Opperheim
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Tomorrow's Jobs from the Occupational Outlook
Handbook
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Business The Interview
Process
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 6 The Media
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Beauty and Body Image in the
Media, Media Awareness Network, www.media- awareness.ca
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: Adolescents' TV Watching is Linked to Violent
Behavior by Rosie Mestel
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: American History The Birth
of Television
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 7 Social Networks
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: Online Social Networking
Issues within Academia... by Jeff Cain
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: We Just Clicked by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and Coco
Masters
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Sociology Controlling
Love: American Mate Selection
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Module 8 The Environment
Get Acquainted with the IssueGuided Reading: The Green Mirage by Rick
Newman
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading
Self-Monitored Reading: The Green Campus: How to Teach New Respect for the
Environment? The 3 R's: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, Reuse and Recycle by
Anne Underwood
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Review Important Points
Independent Reading: Textbook Reading Selection: Environmental Science What
Can Individuals Do? "Green Washing" Can Mislead Consumers
Before your Read
As You Read
After Your Read: Respond to the Reading