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| Preface | |
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| Plan for Success | |
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| Reading to Succeed | |
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| Connecting to the Reading Process | |
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| Getting Motivated to Read | |
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| Motivation to Complete Your Degree: Earning More Money | |
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| Fast Forward to Your Future | |
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| Reading Selections and Talking with Classmates | |
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| Read and Talk: The Power of Three Little Words [article] | |
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| Reading Is an Interaction | |
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| Before You View or Read | |
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| Surveying a Reading Is Like Watching a Preview | |
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| You and the Author Both Have Your Purposes | |
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| You Already Know Something about This | |
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| While You Are Viewing or Reading | |
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| After You View or Read | |
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| Beyond Skills: Knowledge | |
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| Connect Your Skills | |
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| Chapter Summary Activity | |
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| Amid War, Passion for TV Chefs, Soaps and Idols [Newspaper Article] | |
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| The Mass Media and Body Image [Sociology Textbook] | |
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| Asking Questions | |
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| Read and Talk: Oscar Pistorius Has a Huge Carbon Footprint [Online Magazine] | |
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| Asking Questions to Establish Your Purpose for Reading | |
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| Turn Headings or Titles into Questions | |
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| Read to Answer the Question, and Then Mark the Answer | |
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| Mark Only the Most Important Ideas | |
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| Asking Questions to Improve Your Thinking | |
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| Critical Thinking Is a Learning Process | |
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| A Shift from the Author's Ideas to Your Ideas | |
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| What Level of Critical Thinking Are You Being Asked to Use? | |
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| Connect Your Skills | |
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| Chapter Summary Activity | |
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| David Blaine's Feats of Will [Nonfiction Book] | |
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| What Is Motivation? [Psychology Textbook] | |
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| Developing Your Vocabulary | |
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| Read and Talk: Why English Is So Hard to Learn [Online Article] | |
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| Vocabulary Strategies | |
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| Organize Your Vocabulary Study with EASY Note Cards | |
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| Context Clues | |
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| Examples | |
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| Antonyms | |
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| Synonyms | |
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| Your Logic | |
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| EASY as 1, 2, 3 | |
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| Look for signal words | |
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| Focus on what you know | |
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| Pay attention to punctuation | |
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| Word Parts | |
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| Roots | |
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| Prefixes | |
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| Suffixes | |
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| Denotation and Connotation | |
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| Connect Your Skills | |
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| Chapter Summary Activity | |
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| Vocabulary-A Treasure Chest for Success [Online Magazine Article] | |
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| Alex the Parrot: Not a Bird Brain [Nonfiction Book] | |
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| Reading to Understand | |
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| Finding the Main Idea | |
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| Read and Talk: The Passion of Vision [Nonfiction Book] | |
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| Asking Questions to Understand What You Read | |
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| What Is the Reading About? The Topic | |
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| What Is the Author's Point About the Topic? The Main Idea | |
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| A Sample Analysis | |
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| Location of the Topic Sentence: Anywhere | |
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| What Is the Proof for the Author's Main Idea? The Supporting Details | |
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| Major Versus Minor Details | |
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| The Thesis Statement of a Group of Paragraphs | |
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| Outlines and Visual Maps | |
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| Outlines | |
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| Concept Maps | |
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| Connect Your Skills | |
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| Chapter Summary Activity | |
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| Bringing an End to World Hunger Through Unimaginable Blessings [Website] | |
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| The Civil Rights Movement [American Government Textbook] | |
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| Identifying Implied Main Ideas | |
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| Read and Talk: What Is a Food? What's in a Meal? [Culinary Textbook] | |
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| What Is an Implied Main Idea? | |
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| Sample Analysis | |
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| Making Generalizations | |
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| Identifying the Implied Main Idea | |
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| Applying the Strategy to Paragraphs | |
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| Applying the Strategy to Longer Passages | |
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| Connect Your Skills | |
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| Chapter Summary Activity | |
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| Portion Control: Change Your Thinking or Your Plate? [Online Article] | |
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| The Global Epidemic [Health Textbook] | |
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| Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
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| Read and Talk: To Copy or NOT to Copy… [Online Article] | |
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| Predicting Paragraph Patterns | |
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| Examining Paragraph Patterns | |
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| Description: What Does This Look, Sound, Feel, Taste, and Smell Like? | |
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| Narration: How Did That Happen? | |
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| Process: What Steps Need to Occur, and in What Order? | |
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| Cause-and-Effect: What Made This Happen? What Does This Lead To? | |
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| Examples: What Are Examples of This General Idea? | |
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| Comparison and Contrast: How Are These the Same? How Do They Differ? | |
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| Definition: What Does This Mean? | |
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| Classification: What Kinds Are There? | |
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| Transition Words and the Patterns They Signal | |
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| Connect Your Skills | |
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| Chapter Summary Activity | |
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| Dark Bargains of the Global Economy [Nonfiction Book] | |
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| Thou Shalt Covet What Thy Neighbor Covets [Online Newsletter Article] | |
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| Reading and Taking Notes on Textbook Chapters | |
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| Read and Talk: Crow's-Feet and Smiles Sweet [Psychology Textbook] | |
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| Applying the Reading Process to Textbooks | |
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| Forming Questions from Headings and Reading for the Answers | |
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| Annotating (Taking Marginal Notes) As You Read | |
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| Organizing Information with Visual Maps | |
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| Using Cornell Notes to Record Ideas | |
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| Learning Aids in Textbook Chapters | |
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| Chapter Outlines, Objectives, Focus Questions, or FAQs | |
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| Headings | |
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| Boxed Material or Sidebars | |
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| Review Questions or Self-Quiz | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Connect Your Skills | |
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| Chapter Summary Activity | |
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| Exploring the Ingredients of Happiness [Psychology Textbook] | |
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| Big Five Dimensions of Personality [Management Textbook] | |
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| Reading Critically | |
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| Distinguishing Fact and Opinion | |
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| Read and Talk: Jammie Thomas-Rasset: The Download Martyr [Online Newspaper Article] | |
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| Fact and Opinion | |
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| Facts | |
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| Opinions | |
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| Words That Can Express Opinions | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Qualifiers | |
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| Comparatives and Superlatives | |
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| Sources of Information | |
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| Expert Opinion | |
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| Informed Opinion | |
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| People on the Street | |
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| Connect Your Skills | |
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| Chapter Summary Activity | |
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| Grim Life Cursed Real Pirates of Caribbean [Online Newspaper Article] | |
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| You Are Being Lied to about Pirates [Online Newspaper Article] | |
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| Making Inferences | |
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| Read and Talk: Dancing with the Avatars [Magazine Article] | |
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| The Process of Making Inferences | |
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| Making Inferences Every Day | |
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| Making Inferences from Images | |
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| Sample Analysis | |
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| Paying Close Attention to the Details | |
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| Understanding How Prior Knowledge Affects Inferences | |
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| Sample Analysis | |
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| Making Tentative Inferences As You Read | |
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| A Sample Analysis | |
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| Connect Your Skills | |
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| Chapter Summary Activity | |
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| How to Find Happiness on Social Networks [News Magazine Article] | |
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| Online Dating: A Market Failure [Nonfiction Book] | |
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| Analyzing the Author's Tone | |
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| Read and Talk: The Next Frontier of Outsourcing [Online Newspaper Article] | |
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| What Is Tone? | |
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| The Author's Purpose | |
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| The Author's Point of View | |
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| Positive, Neutral, and Negative Tones | |
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| More Specific Tone Words | |
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| Words to Describe an Author's Tone | |
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| Figurative Versus Literal Language | |
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| A Simile Is Like a Metaphor, but a Metaphor Is Not a Simile Personification | |
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| Hyperbole | |
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| Understanding Irony | |
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| Connect Your Skills | |
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| Chapter Summary Activity | |
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| Why I Want a Wife [Essay] | |
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| Attila the Honey I'm Home [Essay] | |
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| Evaluating the Author's Reasoning and Evidence | |
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| Read and Talk: Freedom of Speech in Rap Music [Online Article] | |
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| The Author's Reasoning | |
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| Some New Terms and Their Connection to Paragraph Structure | |
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| The Relevance of the Evidence to the Claim | |
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| Relevance in Reading | |
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| Credibility | |
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| The Types of Evidence | |
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| Expert Authority | |
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| Facts | |
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| Statistics | |
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| Examples | |
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| Personal Experiences | |
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| An Author's Assumptions | |
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| Connect Your Skills | |
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| Chapter Summary Activity | |
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| Reading 11-1 What Is Free Speech? [American Government Textbook] | |
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| Reading 11-2 Fifth Period Is Facebook [Online Magazine Article] | |
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| Casebook: Applying Your Critical Reading Skills to Arguments | |
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| Excerpts from An Inconvenient Truth | |
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| Are Man-Made Carbon Emissions Driving Climate Change? | |
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| Polar Bears: Today's Canaries in the Coal Mine? | |
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| Resource Guides | |
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| A Guide to Reading Visuals | |
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| A Guide to Reading Novels | |
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| A Guide to Taking Tests | |
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| Index | |