Essential Reading Skills
Subtitle: Interactive Practice Workbook
By: Authors: Omie Drawhorn, Teresa Perrin ; Senior consultants: Bonnie Goonen, Susan Pittman-Shetler
Contributors: Perrin, Teresa, author; Goonen, Bonnie, consultant; Pittman-Shetler, Susan, consultant
Series: Essential Education; Essential Education
Publisher: Essential Education
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Corvallis, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781940532011
Subjects: Reading (Higher education); Problems, exercises; Examinations, questions; Reading comprehension; Compréhension de la lecture; Problèmes et exercices; Examens, questions
Table of contents: title: Reading strategically. The DARE process; title: Questioning; title: Skimming and scanning; title: Note-taking and summarizing; title: Graphic organizers; title: Unfamiliar words; title: Career and college vocabulary; title: Inferences; title: Central ideas.; title: Reading nonfiction texts. Text structure; title: Text features; title: Visual elements; title: Author's purpose; title: Reading in science; title: Reading in social studies; title: Tone; title: Details in nonfiction; title: Arguments; title: Claims and evidence; title: Fallacies; title: Persuasive appeals; title: Evaluating arguments and evidence; title: Comparing nonfiction.; title: Reading fiction texts. Theme and author's purpose; title: Support for a theme; title: Details in fiction; title: Word choice; title: Figurative language; title: Characters; title: Story structure and conflict; title: Setting, tone, genre, and style; title: Point of view; title: Comparing fiction.; title: Answers and explanations. Reading strategically; title: Reading nonfiction texts; title: Reading fiction texts.; title: Resources.