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| Active Reading | |
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| Read and Talk: CSI's Adam Rodr?guez Looks Beyond 'Miami' | |
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| Reading Is an Active Process | |
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| Before You Read or View, Take Four Actions | |
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| Survey to get an overview of what's coming | |
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| Guess the purpose of the program or reading selection | |
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| Predict what's going to happen | |
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| Think about your prior knowledge of the subject matter | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| While You Read or View, Stay Active and Focused | |
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| Picture or hear what the author is saying | |
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| Put ideas into your own words | |
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| Predict what the author is going to say next | |
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| Search for connections to your own life and to other ideas and situations | |
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| Be open to learning something new | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| After You Read or View, Think, Talk, and Write | |
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| Think about the ideas in the reading selection | |
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| Talk about the ideas in the reading selection | |
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| Write about the ideas in the reading selection | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Summary Activity: Active Reading | |
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| Application: Active Reading | |
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| No Michael Jacksons Here (Web site article) | |
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| Reading Comprehension | |
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| A Fresh Solution, by Neil Postman (nonfiction book) | |
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| Vocabulary Development | |
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| Read and Talk: Child Hero: Bethany Hamilton | |
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| Improve Your Vocabulary to Make Reading Easier | |
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| Before You Read, Use Word Parts to Expand Your Vocabulary | |
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| Test your prior knowledge | |
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| Look for meaning in word parts | |
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| Look at prefixes for changes to meaning | |
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| Look at suffixes to see how words act in sentences | |
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| Word Parts Glossary | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| While You Read, Define Words in Context | |
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| Find context clues while reading | |
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| Recognize four kinds of context clues | |
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| Look for signal words | |
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| Create EASY notecards to study words | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| While You Read and After You Read, Use the Dictionary | |
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| Understand different types of dictionaries | |
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| Know what kinds of information you can find in a dictionary entry | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| While You Read and After You Read, Examine the Author's Tone | |
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| Understand the difference between denotation and connotation | |
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| Consider a word's degree of intensity | |
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| Tone supports the author's purpose | |
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| Learn to use more specific tone words | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Summary Activity: Vocabulary Development | |
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| Application: Vocabulary Development | |
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| Mistakes, I've Made a Few, by Kyle Busch (online newspaper article) | |
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| Test 2: Reading Comprehension | |
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| Winning Every Day: Pat Summitt's Strategy Centers on Goal Setting (magazine article) | |
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| MAPPs for Reading Comprehension | |
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| Read and Talk: "I Know What I Like" (music textbook) | |
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| MAPP: A Reading Plan | |
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| Mark: Ask Questions and Mark the Answers | |
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| Form questions from titles and headings | |
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| Read for the answer to your question | |
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| Mark the answer to your question | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| About: Find the Topic | |
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| The A of MAPP is "About." What is the reading about? | |
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| The topic | |
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| The topic is repeated | |
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| The topic is general | |
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| Decide how broad or narrow the topic is | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Point: Identify the Main Idea | |
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| The first P of MAPP is "Point." What is the point? | |
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| The main idea | |
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| The main idea isn't always stated | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Proof: Recognize the Supporting Details | |
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| The second P of MAPP Is "Proof." What is the proof for the author's point? | |
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| The supporting details | |
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| Major details are different from minor details | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Summary Activity: MAPP for Reading Comprehension | |
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| Application: MAPP for Reading Comprehension | |
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| The Mystery of Music, by Sting (commencement speech) | |
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| Reading Comprehension | |
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| The Power of Music, by Judy Foreman (online magazine article) | |
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| Reading Textbooks | |
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| Read and Talk: Romanovs (1918) (Forensics textbook) | |
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| Reading Textbooks for Maximum Comprehension | |
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| Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
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| Major details are often organized in patterns | |
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| Time order: When did that happen? | |
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| Space order: Where are things located? | |
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| Definition: What does this mean? | |
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| Examples: What are examples of this general idea? | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Recognizing More Patterns of Organization | |
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| Cause and effect: What made this happen? | |
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| What does this lead to? | |
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| Comparison and contrast: How are these the same? | |
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| How do they differ? | |
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| Classification: What kinds are there? | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Studying Textbook Chapters | |
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| Make sense of the "text" in your textbook | |
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| Learn useful note taking strategies | |
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| Use the chapter resources to improve your comprehension | |
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| Interpret the meaning of visuals | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Summary Activity: Reading Textbooks | |
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| Application: Reading Textbooks | |
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| William Bass (textbook) | |
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| Reading Comprehension | |
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| CSI Effect (magazine) | |
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| Critical Reading | |
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| Read and Talk: Failure Is a Good Thing, by Jon Carroll (online article) | |
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| Thinking Critically About What You Read | |
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| Asking Questions to Improve Your Thinking | |
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| Critical thinking is a learning process | |
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| Critical thinking level 1: Remember | |
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| Critical thinking level 2: Understand | |
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| Critical thinking level 3: Apply | |
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| Critical thinking level 4: Analyze | |
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| Critical thinking level 5: Evaluate | |
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| Critical thinking level 6: Create | |
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| Recognizing critical thinking verbs on tests | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Analyzing Facts, Opinions, and Inferences | |
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| Facts can be verified | |
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| Opinions cannot be verified | |
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| Facts and opinions often appear together | |
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| A fact is a fact, but an opinion needs to be supported by proof | |
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| Certain kinds of words indicate opinions | |
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| Inferences are made from the author's words and your logic | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Activate Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Master Your Skills | |
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| Summary Activity: Critical Reading | |
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| Application: Critical Thinking | |
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| Lessons from the Oscars: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities | |
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| Test 5: Reading Comprehension | |
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| Joe Kapp: Life Lessons from a, Football Superstar, from Yolanda Nava, ed. (nonfiction book) | |
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| Readings | |
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| Reading Comprehension Skills Review | |
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| Hunger Pangs | |
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| The Science of Appetite | |
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| Why Do I Overeat? (health textbook) | |
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| Money Is Tight, and Junk Food Beckons | |
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| Relating to Others | |
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| A Tense Moment in Iraq | |
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| Your Facebook Relationship Status: It's Complicated | |
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| Understanding Empathy: Can You Feel My Pain? | |
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| Making Healthy Choices | |
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| Bragging on MySpace | |
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| A Soap Opera's Sex Is All for a Good Cause | |
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| Body Dysmorphic Disorder | |
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| Going Green in the City | |
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| Landscaped Roofs Have Chicago Mayor Seeing Green | |
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| Introducing Nice Ride--A Bike Sharing Program (Web site) | |
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| The Greening of the Urban Animal | |
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| More Tips for Reading and Taking Tests | |
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| Reading Fiction | |
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| Reading Online | |
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| Taking Tests | |