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Connect Now | |
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Introduction to the New Strategy: Connect Now | |
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Getting an Impression of the Topic | |
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Your Experiences and Feelings | |
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Your Purpose and the Author’s Purpose | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Connect Now | |
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The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 1 Help You to Read from the Inside Out? | |
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How Does the Connect Now Strategy Work? | |
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Mastery Test | |
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I Do Not Like to Read—Sam-I-Am! | |
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Connect Now Practice Pages | |
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The One-Room Schoolhouse of the Nineteenth Century | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? Matthew McConaughey: The Case for Christ | |
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Respond | |
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Introduction to the New Strategy: Respond | |
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You, the Audience | |
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Time for Responding | |
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Space for Responding | |
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Questions and Comments | |
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Looking for Answers | |
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Connections with Other Ideas | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Respond | |
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Forbidden Reading | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 2 Help You to Become a More Engaged Reader? | |
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How Does the Respond Strategy Work? | |
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Mastery Test | |
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“See Spot Run”: Teaching My Grandmother to Read | |
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Respond Practice Pages | |
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Think Big! | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? Sarah Jessica Parker: The History of Love | |
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Vital Vocabulary | |
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Introduction the New Strategy: Vital Vocabulary | |
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Tone, or the Author’s Voice | |
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Context Clues | |
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The Dictionary | |
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Word Parts | |
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A System for Learning New Words | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Vital Vocabulary | |
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Where English Words Come From | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 3 Help You to Become a More Engaged Reader? | |
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How Does the Vital Vocabulary Strategy Work? | |
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Mastery Test | |
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Point. Shoot. See | |
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Vital Vocabulary Practice Pages | |
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Does Media Violence Desensitize Children to Violence? | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? Courtney Love: Trading Up | |
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Get an Overview | |
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Introduction to the New Strategy: Get an Overview | |
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The Title: The Author’s Key to the Subject | |
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Other Important Clues | |
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Skimming | |
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Predicting | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Get an Overview | |
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What Deprived Children Tell Us about Human Nature | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 4 Help You to Become a More Engaged Reader? | |
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How Does the Operation Overview Strategy Work? Mastery Test | |
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The Good Person by Robert Coles | |
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Get an Overview Practice Pages | |
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Managing Workforce Diversity | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? Madonna: The Night Listener | |
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Ask Questions | |
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Introduction to the New Strategy: Ask Questions | |
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Questions for Connecting to the Reading | |
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Questions for Predicting the Overall Point and Main Ideas | |
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Questions That Get Useful Answers | |
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Answers and New Questions | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Ask Questions | |
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How Babies Use Patterns to See | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 5 Help You Become a More Engaged Reader? | |
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How Does the Asking Questions Strategy Work? | |
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Mastery Test | |
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talking back | |
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Ask Questions Practice Pages | |
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Powder by Tobias Wolff | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? Kristin Cavallari: Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of An Anti-Hero | |
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Find and Mark Main Ideas | |
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Introduction to the New Strategy: Find and Mark Main Ideas | |
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Marking Ideas | |
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Overall Point and Main Topics in a Reading | |
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Main Ideas in Paragraphs | |
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Supporting Ideas | |
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Adjust your Marking | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Find and Mark Main Ideas | |
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How the Self-Concept Develops | |
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Sample Marking: How the Self-Concept Develops | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 6 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
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How Does the Find and Mark Main Ideas Strategy Work? | |
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Mastery Test | |
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School Is Bad for Children | |
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Sample Marking: School Is Bad for Children | |
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Find Main Ideas Practice Pages | |
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Learning the River | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? Kirsten Dunst: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God | |
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Patterns of Thought | |
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Introduction to the New Strategy: Patterns of Thought | |
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Common Patterns | |
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Patterns and the Overall Point | |
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Patterns and Main Ideas | |
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Signal Words and Phrases | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Patterns of Thought | |
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Optimism: The Great Motivator | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 7 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
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How Does the Look for Patterns of Thought Strategy Work? | |
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Mastery Test | |
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How Conscious Is Thought? | |
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Patterns of Thought Practice Pages | |
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Traveling by Grace Paley | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? Jason Lee: Hunger | |
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Map Main Ideas | |
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Introduction to the New Strategy: Map Main Ideas | |
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Placing the Overall Point, the Main Ideas, and the Supporting Ideas | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Map Main Ideas | |
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Why People Don’t Help in a Crisis | |
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Sample Informal Outline: “Why People Don’t Help in a Crisis” | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 8 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
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How Does the Map Main Ideas Strategy Work? | |
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Mastery Test | |
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Mother Tongue | |
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Map Main Ideas Practice Pages | |
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Imprinting: A Form of Learning | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? Shia LaBeouf: The Definitive Book of Body Language | |
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Make Inferences | |
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Introduction to the New Strategy: Make Inferences | |
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Inferences and Implied Ideas | |
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Logical Connections | |
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Details | |
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Word Choice | |
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Your Own Assumptions | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Make Inferences | |
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A Letter to My Teacher | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 9 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
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How Does the Make Inferences Strategy Work? | |
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Mastery Test | |
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Why Men Don’t Last: Self-Destruction as a Way of Life | |
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Make Inferences Practice Pages | |
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The Gorilla’s Embrace | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? Cassandra Wilson: Manuals on PHP | |
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Find Meaning in Metaphors | |
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Introduction to the New Strategy: Find Meaning in Metaphors | |
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Metaphorical Expressions | |
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Interpreting Metaphors | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Find Meaning in Metaphors | |
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Terror Unlimited | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 10 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
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How Does the Find Meaning in Metaphors Strategy Work? | |
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Mastery Test | |
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Buckle Up. And Behave | |
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Find Meaning in Metaphors Practice Pages | |
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Victor | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? Casey Affleck: Short stories, including “Incident at Owl Creek” | |
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Determine the Writer’s Perspective | |
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Introduction to the New Strategy: Determine the Writer’s Perspective | |
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Styles of Writing | |
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The Intended Audience | |
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Perspective | |
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Tone and Bias | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Determine the Writer’s Perspective | |
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A Global Green Deal | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 11 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
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How Does the Determine the Writer’s Perspective Strategy Work? | |
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Mastery Test | |
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Infernal Paradise | |
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The Writer’s Perspective Practice Pages | |
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Pitching Messages | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? Kenny Melman, Herb of cabaret duo Kiki and Herb: Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture | |
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Write a Summary | |
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Introduction to the New Strategy: Write a Summary | |
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Paraphrasing | |
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Summarizing the Overall Point and Main Ideas | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Write a Summary | |
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Police and the Community | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 12 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
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How Does the Write a Summary Strategy Work? | |
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Mastery Test | |
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Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments | |
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Write a Summary Practice Pages | |
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The Argument Culture | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? Chris Rock: The Fire Next Time | |
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Analyze the Information | |
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Introduction to the New Strategy: Analyze the Information | |
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Fact and Opinion | |
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Reliable Information | |
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Testing the Support | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Analyze the Information | |
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Four for a Quarter | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 13 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
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How Does the Analyze the Information Strategy Work? | |
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Mastery Test | |
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Buy This 24-Year-Old and Get All His Friends Absolutely Free | |
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Analyze the Information Practice Pages | |
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Memo from Coach | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? Jodi Picoult: The Ice Queen | |
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Make an Evaluation | |
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Introduction to the New Strategy: Make an Evaluation | |
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Thinking Objectively | |
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Thinking Subjectively | |
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Apply the New Strategy: Make an Evaluation | |
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Don’t Further Empower Cliques | |
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Summary | |
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How Does Strategy 14 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader? | |
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How Does the Make an Evaluation Strategy Work? | |
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Mastery Test | |
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Can Gossip Be Good? | |
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Make an Evaluation Practice Pages | |
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The Formation of Modern American Mass Culture | |
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Culture Wire | |
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What Are They Reading? LeVar Burton: The Road Less Travelled | |
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