Structured Reading (with MyReadingLab Student Access Code Card)

Part 1  Skills for Reading                                                                                                               

Chapter 1 What Is Your Personal Reading History?                                                                             

Chapter 2 What Is the Reading Process?                                                                                           

Chapter 3 What Is the Role of “SQ3R” When Reading to Study?   

Chapter 4 What Is the Role of Speed During Reading?                                                                         

Chapter 5 How Can I Improve My Vocabulary?                                                                                    

Chapter 6 What Is Reading On, Between, and Beyond the Lines?                                                        

Chapter 7 What Are “Central Theme” and “Main Ideas”?                                                                       

Chapter 8 What Are “Major Details”?                                                                                                  

Chapter 9 How Can Maps, Outlines, and Visuals Help With Reading?                                                   

Chapter 10 What Are “Inferences”?                                                                                                    

Chapter 11 What Is “Critical Reading”?                                                                                               

Chapter 12  Critical Reading: What Are “The Author’s Strategies”?                                                       

Chapter 13 Critical Reading: What Is “Summary”?                                                                               

Chapter 14 What Is “Reader’s Response”?

                                                                                                                                                      

Answers to Activities in Part One                                                                                                       

 

Part 2  Thinking: Getting Started                                                                                                   

Selection 1 A Real Loss,by Fern Kupfer                                                                                            

Vocabulary list with dictionary entries    

Exercises:

1A    Vocabulary  

1B    Central Theme and Main Ideas    

1C    Major Details    

1D    Inferences    

1E    Critical Reading: Fact or Opinion    

1F     Critical Reading: The Author’s Strategies    

1G    Reader’s Process: Summarizing Your Reading    

1H    Reader’s Response: To Discuss or to Write About    

Selection 2 Tyranny of Weakness, by Eda LeShan                                                                             

*Selection 3 Don’t Sell Your Ambitions Short to “keep it real”, by Leonard Pitts, Jr.                                

Selection 4 Darkness at Noon,by Harold Krents                                                                                 

*Selection 5 To Catch a Thief, by Stephen Holt

*Selection 6 Seoul Searching, by Rick Reilly                                                                                      

 

 

Part 3  Thinking: Getting Started                                                                                                   

Selection 7 Summer, by Jonathan Schwartz                                                                                       

*Selection 8 Brains the Ultimate Sex Appeal, by Wendi C. Thomas                                                      

Selection 9 The Girl with the Large Eyes, by Julius Lester                                                                   

Selection 10 Flour Children, by Lexine Alpert                                                                                      

Selection 11 The Magic Words Are “Will You Help Me?” by Michael Ryan                                             

*Selection 12 Family and Friends Share Pain and Questions by Erin Sullivan

 

Part 4  Thinking: Getting Started                                                                                                   

Selection 13 How to Stay Alive, by Art Hoppe                                                                                     

Selection 14 Genes and Behavior: A Twin Legacy, by Constance Holden                                              

Selection 15 Escaping the Daily Grind for Life as a House Father, by Rick Greenberg                            

Selection 16  Forty Acres and a Holiday, by Lisa Jones                                                                      

Selection 17 My Mother’s Blue Bowl, by Alice Walker                                                                         

Selection 18 From In Search of Bernabé, by Graciela Limón

                                                                                                                                                      

Part 5  Thinking: Getting Started                                                                                                   

Selection 19 Restored to the Sea, by Robin Micheli                                                                            

Selection 20 Death Penalty Victims, by Bob Herbert                                                                           

Selection 21 Should a Wife Keep Her Name? by Norman Lobsenz                                                       

Selection 22 I Became Her Target, by Roger Wilkins                                                                           

Selection 23 Mute in an English-Only World, by Chang-rae Lee

Selection 24 Out of Their Element, by Bob Akin                                                                                 

 

Part 6  Thinking: Getting Started                                                                                                   

Selection 25 They Sniff Out Trouble, by Gail Buchalter                                                                        

Selection 26 She Made Her Dream Come True, by Michael Ryan                                                          

Selection 27 Long-Term Memory, by Joseph Calkin and Richard S. Perrotto (textbook extract)               

Selection 28 A Personal Stress Survival Guide, by Dianne Hales (textbook extract)                               

Selection 29 The Chaser, by John Collier                                                                                           

*Selection 30  Reading Charts, Graphs, Illustrations, and Pictures

                                                                                                                                                      

Appendix

Progress Charts                                                                                                                               

Guide to Dictionary Use                                                                                                                    

Credits                                                                                                                                            

Vocabulary Index                                                                                                                             

General Index