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| Preface to Students | |
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| Unique Features of this Text | |
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| Organization | |
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| Get Ready to Learn | |
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| Learning Styles | |
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| Reading Techniques SQ3R | |
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| Note-taking Strategies | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Theme Exploring College | |
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| Spotlight on Learning Styles -Listening | |
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| Shortcuts and time-savers to use while you read | |
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| How clues help you guess the meaning of unknown words | |
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| Synonyms and Definitions | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Antonyms | |
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| Examples | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Experience, Prior Knowledge, and Perceptions | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Review What You Learned | |
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| Master the Lesson | |
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| Learning Styles Activities | |
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| Choosing a College Major: How to Chart Your Ideal Path from www.quintcareers.com Readings | |
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| Internet | |
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| High School Versus College Life: A Freshman Year Guide to Different Student Academic Expectations from Suite 101 | |
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| Textbook | |
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| Attitude from The Community College Experience: Plus | |
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| Literature | |
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| College Talk from Chicken Soup for the College Soul: Inspiring and Humorous Stories about College | |
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| Leadership for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century: Eleven High-Profile Women Share Their Trials and Triumphs. Leading the Way Gwen Sykes, Chief FinancialOfficer, NASA | |
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| Visual Images | |
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| Diversity | |
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| Vocabulary - Word Parts | |
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| Theme Staying Healthy | |
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| Spotlight on Learning Styles - Doing | |
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| How to Use Word Parts to Understand the Meaning of Words | |
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| How to Apply new Vocabulary Strategies to You Reading | |
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| Prefixes | |
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| Review What You Learned | |
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| Roots | |
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| Review What You Learned | |
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| Suffixes | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Review What You Learned | |
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| Master the Lesson -Vocabulary | |
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| Learning Styles Activities | |
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| Exercise your vocabulary from About.com Guide to Exercise | |
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| Readings | |
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| Internet | |
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| 5 Foods That Boost Your Mood from Self.com | |
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| Textbook | |
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| Managing Stress from The Community College Experience Plus | |
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| Literature | |
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| Exercise and Other Dirty Words from, Porch Talk: Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species by Philip Gulley | |
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| Magazines/Periodicals | |
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| Your Own Brain can Sabotage Success | |
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| Visual Images | |
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| Rhymes with Orange cartoon, using fish oil | |
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| Main Ideas | |
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| Theme Life Relationships | |
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| Spotlight on Learning Styles -Writing | |
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| SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review for better comprehension) | |
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| Finding the Topic (What is this about?) | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Review What You Learned | |
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| Determining the Main Idea (What does the author want me to know?) | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Review What You Learned | |
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| Master the Lesson | |
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| Learning Styles Activities | |
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| Y ou've Got a Friend | |
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| Readings | |
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| Internet | |
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| Rule of Thumbs: Love in the Age of Texting from TheWashingtonPost.com | |
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| Textbook | |
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| The Faces of Conflict from Cornerstone: Creating Success Through Positive Change | |
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| Literature | |
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| The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks | |
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| Magazines/Periodicals | |
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| Dr. Phil's Six Rules of Talking & Listening from O, The Oprah Magazine. | |
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| Visual Images | |
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| Friends hanging out together | |
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| Supporting Details | |
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| Theme Using Your Time Wisely | |
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| Spotlight on Learning Styles - Looking | |
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| Reading the other sentences (What details are included in the paragraph?) | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Using PIE (Prove, Illustrate, or Explain the author's point | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Review What You Learned | |
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| Master the Lesson | |
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| Learning Styles Activities | |
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| A Time for Everything | |
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| Readings | |
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| Internet | |
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| Time Management -- Getting it Done from Careers and College | |
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| Textbook | |
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| Use Scheduling Techniques from Keys to Success: Building Successful Intelligence for College, Career, and Life | |
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| Literature | |
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| Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom | |
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| Magazines/Periodicals | |
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| Beating the Odds from the magazine, Real Simple: Life Made Easier | |
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| Visual Images | |
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| Working on the beach | |
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| Implied Main Idea | |
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| Theme Having Fun | |
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| Spotlight on Learning Styles - Doing | |
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| What is the Implied Main Idea | |
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| Putting Implied Main Ideas in Your Own Words | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Review What You Learned | |
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| Finding the Implied Central Idea in Longer Passages | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Review What You Learned | |
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| Master the Lesson | |
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| Learning Styles Activities | |
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| 100 Things to Do During a Money Free Weekend from www.thesimpledollar.com | |
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| Readings | |
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| Internet | |
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| On-the-Job Video Gaming from www.businessweek.com | |
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| Textbook | |
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| The Art of Listening from Understanding Music | |
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| Literature | |
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| Make a Decision: Tigger or Eeyore from The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch | |
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| Magazines/Periodicals | |
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| Cupcakes are Manning Up from Food Network Magazine | |
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| Visual Images | |
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| Banana Slugs | |
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| Patterns of Organizations | |
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| Theme Money Matters | |
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| Spotlight on Learning Styles - Doing | |
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| Writers have a plan (What are they trying to do?) | |
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| Paragraphs Developed with Definition | |
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| Practice the new Skill | |
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| Paragraphs Developed with Example | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Paragraphs Developed with Time Order/Sequence | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Paragraphs Developed with Simple Listing | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Review What You Learned | |
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| Master the Lesson - Patterns of Organization | |
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| Learning Styles Activities | |
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| Economic Readiness Assessment from Cornerstone: Creating success through positive change | |
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| Readings | |
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| Internet | |
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| Money Trouble? It's Your Own Fault from Money Central at www.msn.com | |
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| Textbook | |
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| Small Costs Add Up and B is for Budgeting from Cornerstone: Creating Success through Positive Change | |
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| Literature | |
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| Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abignale | |
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| Magazines/Periodicals | |
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| Fuel economy: Save money on gas; Consumer Reports' Tests Show How to Get the Best Gas Mileage | |
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| Visual Images | |
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| We Can Help You Save a Latte; advertisement from a credit union | |
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| Patterns of Organizations - Part 2 | |
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| Theme Job and Life Skills | |
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| Spotlight on Learning Styles -ListeningParagraphs Developed with Classification | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Paragraphs Developed with Compare/Contrast | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Paragraphs Developed with Cause/Effect | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Paragraphs Developed with a Combination of Patterns | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Review What You Learned | |
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| Master the Lesson - Patterns of Organization | |
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| Learning Styles Activities | |
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| How to Live: Follow Your Heart, Risk Be Damned from www.cbsnews.com | |
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| Readings | |
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| Internet | |
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| 11 Warning Signs Your Interview is in Trouble from msn.careerbuilder.com | |
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| Textbook | |
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| Focusing on your professional career and living well from Cornerstone: Creating Success through Positive Change | |
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| Literature | |
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| Eyeing the Mountaintop from Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom | |
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| Magazines/Periodicals | |
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| Best of America from Readers' Digest | |
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| Visual Images | |
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| Body Language | |
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| Facts and Opinions | |
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| Theme Staying Current | |
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| Spotlight on Learning Styles -Writing | |
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| How to Identify Facts and Opinions | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| How to separate facts from opinions in persuasive text | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Review What You Learned | |
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| Master the Lesson - Fact and Opinions | |
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| Learning Styles Activities | |
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| Self-help online from USA Weekend | |
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| Readings | |
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| Internet | |
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| U.S. Army Dips a Toe in Wind Power Waters | |
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| Textbook | |
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| Gay and Lesbian Couples from Society: The Basics | |
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| Literature | |
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| Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan | |
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| Magazine/Periodicals | |
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| Don't Blame Ronald for Kids' Weight . | |
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| Visual Images | |
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| Farmer's market | |
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| Inferences | |
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| Theme What are My Dreams? | |
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| Spotlight on Learning Styles - Looking, Listening, Writing and Doing | |
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| How to Find Inferences (What can you see between the lines?) | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Separating Valid from Invalid Inferences (Can the inference be supported?) | |
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| Practice the New Skill | |
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| Review What You Learned | |
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| Master the Lesson - Inference | |
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| Learning Styles Activities | |
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| Attitude 101: What every leader needs to know by John Maxwell | |
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| Readings | |
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| Internet | |
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| Sandra Cisneros from Gale: Free Resources: Hispanic Heritage: Biographies | |
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| Textbook | |
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| Achievement from Psychology: An Introduction | |
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| Literature | |
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| The Little Engine That Could: I Think I Can from The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That | |
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| Matter Most to Them | |
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| Inspire Your Kids with Stories of Heroes from USA Weekend | |
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| Visual Image | |
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| The Essence of Achievement | |