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| Becoming an Active Reader | |
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| Preface for Instructors | |
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| Introduction: Using Making It Work | |
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| Getting Ready | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Focusing Questions | |
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| Everyday Reading | |
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| Learning the Skills | |
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| Reasons for Reading | |
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| Overcoming Beliefs about Reading Myths | |
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| Reading Actively | |
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| Applying the Skills | |
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| Reading the Parts/Reading the Whole | |
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| Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness of Language | |
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| Reading Textbooks: Psychology | |
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| Reading the Web: U.S. English | |
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| Reviewing | |
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| Recall/Remember | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Reading/Writing Connection | |
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| Developing a College Vocabulary | |
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| Word Analysis: Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes | |
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| Using Context Clues | |
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| Reading the Parts/Reading the Whole | |
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| On Honoring Blackness | |
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| Reading Textbooks: Sociology | |
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| Reading the Web: civilrights.org | |
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| Reading for a Writer's Topic and Main Idea | |
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| Recognizing Implied Main Ideas | |
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| Main Ideas in Paragraphs | |
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| Main Ideas in Longer Passages | |
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| Reading the Parts/Reading the Whole | |
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| Born in Amrika | |
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| Reading Textbooks: Communication | |
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| Reading the Web: Beyond the Veil | |
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| Recognizing Supporting Details | |
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| Understanding Supporting Details | |
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| Connecting Supporting to Identify Unstated Main Ideas | |
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| Reading the Parts/Reading the Whole | |
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| The War on High Schools | |
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| Reading Textbooks: Child Psychology | |
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| Reading the Web: This Is True | |
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| Examining Sentences in Context | |
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| Implicit Sentences | |
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| Coordination and Subordination | |
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| Recognizing Relationships Between Sentences: The Paragraph | |
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| From Sentence Relationships to Paragraph Relationships | |
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| Reading the Parts/Reading the Whole | |
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| The Most Dangerous Job | |
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| Reading Textbooks: Business | |
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| Reading the Web: ConAgra Foods | |
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| Analyzing a Writer's Structures | |
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| Identifying the Parts of an Essay | |
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| Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
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| Reading the Parts/Reading the Whole | |
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| What Matters | |
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| Reading Textbooks: Economics | |
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| Reading the Web: Goodwill | |
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| Examining a Writer's Language | |
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| Specialized Meanings of Words | |
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| Distinguishing Denotation and Connotation | |
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| Connotation and Context | |
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| Understanding Figures of Speech | |
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| Reading the Parts/Reading the Whole | |
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| Musical Lobsters | |
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| Reading Textbooks: Music | |
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| Reading the Web: Dave Matthews Band | |
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| Becoming an Interpretive Reader | |
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| The Interpretive Impulse | |
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| Making Observations | |
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| Establishing Connections | |
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| Formulating Inferences | |
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| Drawing Conclusions | |
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| Reading the Parts/Reading the Whole | |
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| A Colony in the Sky | |
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| Reading Textbooks: Astronomy | |
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| Reading the Web: The Mars Project | |
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| Practicing Critical Reading | |
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| Identifying a Writer's Purpose | |
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| Distinguishing between Facts and Opinions | |
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| Determining an Author's Point of View | |
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| The Internet and Critical Reading | |
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| Reading the Parts/Reading the Whole | |
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| A Trip to Cell Hell | |
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| Reading Textbooks: Marketing | |
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| Reading the Web: WorldCom Wireless and Verizon Wireless | |
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| Understanding Persuasive Writing | |
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| The Elements of Argumentative Writing | |
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| The Art of Persuasion | |
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| Recognizing Logical Fallacies | |
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| Reading the Parts/Reading the Whole | |
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| The Case for a National ID Card | |
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| Reading Textbooks: American History | |
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| Reading the Web: The American Civil Liberties Union | |
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| Enjoying and Interpreting Literature | |
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| Understanding Literary Writing | |
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| Enjoying Literature | |
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| The Elements of Literature | |
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| Reading Poetry | |
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| Reading the Parts/Reading the Whole | |
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| The Tell-Tale Heart | |
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| Reading Textbooks: Film | |
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| Reading the Web: snopes.com | |
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| Reading and Studying Textbooks | |
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| Understanding the Parts of a Textbook | |
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| Skimming for an Overview | |
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| Scanning for Information | |
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| Reading Graphics | |
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| SQ3R: Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review | |
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| Reading Textbooks: American History | |
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| Reading the Web: America: A Concise History | |
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| An Anthology of Readings | |
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| Living Well, Living Good. | |
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| When (and Why) Dad Has the Babies | |
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| When you Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! | |
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| Gifted Hands | |
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| The Necessity of Travel | |
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| Chicken Scratch and E-Hugs | |
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| Anti-Smokers Ought to Butt Out of Movies | |
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| Rope | |
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| Make That a Double | |
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| Life | |
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| Using a College Dictionary | |
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| Studying and Taking Tests | |