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| Approaching College Reading | |
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| Active Reading and Previewing | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Pre-Assessment: "College Survival Tips: Making the Transition" | |
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| Focus on Reading Study Skills: The Reading Process | |
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| Before You Read | |
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| While You Read | |
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| After You Read | |
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| Focus on Comprehension: Active Reading, Previewing, and Predicting | |
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| Active Learning | |
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| Active Reading | |
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| Memory and How the Brain Processes Information | |
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| Previewing | |
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| Making Predictions | |
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| Focus on Vocabulary: Definition and Synonym Context Clues | |
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| Transition Words | |
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| Definition Clue | |
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| Synonym Clue | |
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| Applications | |
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| "Procrastination: Ten Things To Know" | |
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| "Planning Sets You Free" | |
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| Wrapping It Up | |
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| Post Assessment: "Organizing Your Time" | |
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| Topic and Questioning | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Pre-Assessment: "Students Under Stress" | |
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| Focus on Comprehension: Determining Topic and Posing Guide Questions | |
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| Topic | |
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| General Versus Specific | |
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| Finding the Topic | |
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| Finding the Topic in a Longer Passage | |
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| Posing Guide Questions | |
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| Focus on Vocabulary: Antonym and Inference Context Clues | |
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| Antonym Clue | |
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| Inference Clue | |
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| Focus on Reading Study Skills: Motivation and Time Management | |
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| Internal and External Motivation | |
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| Managing Your Time | |
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| Applications | |
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| "10 Healthy Habits That May Help You Live to 100" | |
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| "Five Ways to Resolve Conflict" | |
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| Wrapping it Up | |
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| Post Assessment: "Stress on Campus" | |
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| Main Ideas | |
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| Explicit Main Ideas | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Pre-Assessment: "Money = Happiness" | |
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| Focus on Comprehension: Author's Purpose and Explicit Main Ideas | |
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| Author's Purpose | |
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| To Inform | |
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| To Instruct | |
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| To Persuade | |
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| To Entertain | |
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| Main Idea | |
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| Finding the Main Idea | |
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| Location of Main Idea | |
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| Explicit Main Idea in a Paragraph | |
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| Explicit Main Idea in a Longer Passage | |
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| Focus on Vocabulary: Recognizing Prefixes and Suffixes | |
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| Prefixes | |
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| Suffixes | |
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| Focus on Reading Study Skills: Goal Setting and Study Environments | |
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| Setting Achievable Goals | |
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| Creating a Motivating Study Environment | |
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| Applications | |
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| "Why Money Doesn't Buy Happiness" | |
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| "Global Stratification" | |
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| Wrapping it Up | |
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| Post Assessment: "Billionaire Clusters" | |
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| Implied Main Ideas | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Pre-Assessment: "Do our genes make us popular?" | |
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| Focus on Reading Study Skills: Paraphrasing | |
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| The Importance of Paraphrasing | |
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| How to Paraphrase | |
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| Focus on Comprehension: Inference and Implied Main Ideas | |
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| What Are Inferences? Implied Main Ideas | |
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| Topic + Existing Sentence = Implied Main Idea | |
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| Sentence + Sentence = Implied Main Idea | |
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| General Statement Based on Supporting Details = Implied Main Idea | |
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| Finding an Implied Main Idea in a Longer Reading | |
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| Focus on Vocabulary: Recognizing Prefixes and Suffixes | |
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| Root Words | |
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| Applications | |
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| "Oh, Brother: How Nature and Nurture Can Conspire to Create Ideologically Opposed Siblings" | |
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| "Nature Versus Nurture" | |
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| Wrapping It Up | |
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| Post Assessment: "Self-Confidence: Nature or Nurture?" | |
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| Units I And II Textbook Application | |
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| Surveying a Chapter | |
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| Using Textbook Features | |
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| Applying What You Have Learned to a Full Length Chapter-- | |
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| Learning about Learning from FOCUS on College Success | |
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| Eight Steps to Approaching This Textbook Reading | |
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| Learning about Learning from FOCUS on College Success | |
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| Understanding Test-Taking Strategies: Taking Objective Tests | |
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| Relationships between Ideas | |
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| Patterns of Organization | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Pre Assessment: "What Happens When You Sleep?" by the National Sleep Foundation | |
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| Focus on Vocabulary: Recognizing Transition Words | |
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| Transitions Signal Patterns | |
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| Focus on Comprehension: Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
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| Relationships between Ideas | |
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| Patterns of Organization | |
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| Supporting Details | |
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| Patterns That List | |
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| Patterns That Define or C | |