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* - New reading selections for this edition | |
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Orientation: Preparing and Organizing Yourself for Success in College | |
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Making Yourself Successful in College | |
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Skills: Doing What Successful Students Do | |
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Motivating Yourself | |
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Setting Your Goals | |
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Identifying Your Learning Style | |
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Managing Your Time | |
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Setting Up a Weekly Study Schedule | |
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Making the Most of Your Study Time | |
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Planning Further Ahead: Creating a Monthly Assignment Calendar and Using a Daily "To Do" List | |
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Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards | |
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Reading Selections: | |
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"Why Go To College?" from P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life | |
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"Getting Ready for Prime Time: Learning the Skills Needed to Succeed Today and Tomorrow" from Understanding Business | |
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"Saved" from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley (Autobiography) | |
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Approaching College Reading and Developing A College-Level Vocabulary | |
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Skills: Understanding the Reading Process | |
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Improving Your Reading | |
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Predicting as You Read | |
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Monitoring Your Comprehension | |
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Adjusting Your Reading Rate | |
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Developing a College-Level Vocabulary | |
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Using Context Clues | |
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Using Word-Structure Clues | |
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Using a Dictionary Pronunciation Key | |
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Understanding Denotations and Connotations of Words | |
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Understanding Figurative Language | |
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A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Vocabulary in Context and Figurative Language Questions | |
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Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards | |
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Reading Selections: | |
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"Making It Happen: Creating Positive Change to Become a Peak Performer" (Student Success) | |
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"Fighting Terrorism in a Global Age" (History) | |
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"A Whale of a Survival Problem" | |
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Approaching College Assignments: Reading Textbooks and Following Directions | |
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Skills:College Textbooks: A Method for Reading and Studying Effectively | |
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The SQ3R Study System | |
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Prepare to Read | |
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Ask and Answer Questions to Enhance Your Reading | |
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Review by Rehearsing the Answers to Your Questions | |
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Following Directions in Textbooks and on Tests | |
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Guidelines for Following Directions | |
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Example: Directions from a Textbook | |
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Example: Directions for a Test | |
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Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards | |
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Reading Selections: | |
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"African Americans: The Struggle for Equality" | |
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"Parenthood: Now, Later, ...Never?" | |
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"Art in the Service of Religion" | |
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Comprehension: Understanding College Textbooks by Reading for Ideas | |
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Determining the Topic and the Stated Main Idea | |
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Skills: The Topic of a Paragraph | |
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What is the Topic of a Paragraph, and Why is it Important? Determining and Expressing the Topic | |
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The Stated Main Idea of a Paragraph | |
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What is a Stated Main Idea, and Why is it Important? | |
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Locating the Stated Main Idea Sentence | |
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How to Tell if you have Identified the Stated Main Idea Sentence | |
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How to Avoid Two Common Errors in Locating a Stated Main Idea | |
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Stated Overall Main Ideas in Longer Passages | |
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A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Topics and Stated Main Ideas | |
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Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards | |
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Test Your Understanding: Determing the Topic and Stated Main Idea | |
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"A Warning to Students: Plagiarism, Term Papers and Web Research" | |
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"Latinos: An Emerging Influence in the United States" | |
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"Muhammed" | |
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Formulating Implied Main Ideas | |
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Skills: Implied Main Ideas in Paragraphs | |
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What is an Implied Main Idea? Why is Formulating Implied Main Ideas Important? | |
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Formulating an Implied Main Idea | |
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Steps to Follow | |
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Threee formulas for Using Information in a Paragraph to Formulate the MainThree | |
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Requirements for Correctly Formulated Main Idea Sentences | |
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Implied Overall Main Ideas in Longer Passages | |
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A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Implied Main Ideas | |
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Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards | |
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Test Your Understanding: Formulating Implied Main Ideas | |
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Reading Selections: | |
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"Identity Theft: You are at Risk" (Personal Finance) | |
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"Violence in Television and Video Games: Does the Media's Message Matter?" (Psychology) | |
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"Demography" | |
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Identifying Supporting Details | |
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Skills: Supporting Details in Paragraphs | |
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What are Supporting Details? Why are Supporting Details Important? | |
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Identifying and Listing Supporting Details | |
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Major and Minor Details, and How to Tell the Difference | |
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A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Supporting Details | |
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Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards | |
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Test Your Understanding: Identifying Supporting Details | |
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Reading Selections: | |
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"Shaping Your Health: The Millenial Generation and Early Adulthood" | |
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"America's Most Popular Drug: Caffeine" (Health) | |
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"What Can Be Done to Help Third World Countries?" From A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy | |
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Recognizing Authors' Writing Patterns | |
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Skills: Patterns of Writing | |
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What are Authors' Writing Patterns? Why is Recognizing Writing Patterns Important? | |
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Recognizing Authors' Writing Patterns | |
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List Pattern | |
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Sequence Pattern | |
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Definition Pattern | |
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Comparison-Contrast Pattern | |
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Cause-Effect Pattern | |
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Spacial Order Pattern | |
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Avoid Seeing Everything as a List | |
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Other Writing Patterns | |
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Addition Pattern | |
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Generalization and Example Pattern | |
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Statement and Classification Pattern | |
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Summary Pattern | |
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Mixed Pattern | |
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Relationships within and between Sentences | |
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A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Authors' Writing Patterns | |
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Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards | |
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Test Your Understanding: Part One - Basic Writing Patterns | |
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"E-Commerce? It's E-Normous!" (Business) | |
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"The Development of Rock Music and Rock in American Society" | |
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"Reactions to Impending Death" | |
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Reading Critically | |
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Skills: What is Critical Reading? | |
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Critical Reading Skills | |
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Determining an Author's Purpose | |
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Determining an Author's Intended Audience | |
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Determining an Author's Point of View, tone, and intended meaning | |
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A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Critical Reading | |
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Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards | |
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Reading Selections: | |
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Prologue from The Illustrated Man | |
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"Think Before You Speak: Public Speaking in a Multicultural World" | |
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From The Things They Carried | |
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Thinking Critically | |
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Skills: What is Critical Thinking, and Why is it Important? | |
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Critical Thinking Skills | |
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Why Readers Fail to Think Critically | |
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Distinguishing Facts from Opinions and Determining Whether Opinions Are Well Supported | |
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Making Inferences and Drawing Logical Conclusions | |
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Evaluating an Author's Argument | |
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Distinguishing between Deductive and Inductive Reasoning | |
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Identifying Propaganda Devices | |
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A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Critical Thinking | |
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Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards | |
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Test Your Understanding: Thinking Critically | |
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Reading Selections: | |
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"Poverty in America and Improving Social Welfare through Public Education" (Government) | |
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"Sport Utility Vehicles: How Do I Hate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways" | |
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"Take Out the Trash, and Put It...Where?" | |
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Systems for Studying Textbooks: Developing a System that Works for You | |
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Selecting and Organizing Textbook Information | |
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Skills: Studying Better Rather Than Harder | |
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Three Keys to Studying College Textbooks | |
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Selectivity | |
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Organization | |
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Rehearsal | |
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Using Textbook Features | |
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Marking Textbooks: Underlining, Highlighting, and Annotating | |
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Taking Notes from Textbooks: Outlining, Mapping, and Summarizing | |
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Taking Notes on a Laptop | |
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Guidelines for Outlining | |
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Guidelines for the Cornell Method of Note-Taking | |
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Guidelines for Mapping | |
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Guidelines for Summarizing | |
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Interpreting Graphs and Visual Aids | |
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Bar Graphs | |
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Line Graphs | |
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Pie Charts | |
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Tables | |
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Photographs | |
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Diagrams | |
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Flowcharts | |
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Maps | |
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Cartoons | |
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Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards | |
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Reading Selection: | |
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"The Age of Globalization" | |
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Rehearsing Textbook Information and Preparing for Tests | |
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Skills: Rehearsal and Memory | |
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Studying for Tests | |
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General Guidelines | |
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Five-Day Test Review Plan | |
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Creating Review Cards to Prepare for a Test | |
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Creating Test Review Sheets | |
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Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards | |
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Reading Selection: | |
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"Cultural Diversity: Family Strengths and Challenges" | |
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Glossary of Key Reading and Study Skills Terms | |
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A List of Word Parts: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes | |
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United States Map, World Map and List of World Capitals | |
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List of Reading Selection Vocabulary from the Vocabulary-in-Context Exercises for each Reading Selection | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |
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Vocabulary Log | |