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| Strategies for Mastering Your Textbooks Introducing SQ3R | |
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| Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review S | |
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| Survey to Get a General Overview Q | |
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| Use Questions to Guide Your Attention R | |
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| Read R: Recite R | |
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| Review Mining the Web for Background Knowledge Introducing Bonus Questions Sample Chapter | |
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| The Cold War Abroad and at Home, 1945-1952 | |
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| Word Power Using Context Context and Meaning Defining Words from Their Parts Combine Forces | |
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| Use Context Clues and Word Parts More Pointers About Specialized Vocabulary Connotations and Denotations of Words The Difference Between Reading and Writing Vocabularies | |
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| Relating the General to the Specific in Reading and Writing General and Specific Words | |
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| Understanding the Difference Between General and Specific Sentences | |
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| The Writer's Responsibility | |
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| The Reader's Response Connecting General and Specific Sentences in Paragraphs | |
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| Discovering Topics, Main Ideas, and Topic Sentences | |
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| Identify the Topic Use the Topic to Discover the Main Idea | |
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| Topic Sentences and Main Ideas More | |
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| Topic Sentence | |
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| Locations Paraphrasing Topic Sentences | |
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| A Two-Step Method for Paraphrasing Complex Ideas | |
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| Inferences and Main Ideas | |
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| Inferences in Everyday Life Filling in the Gaps in Topic Sentences | |
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| Inferring Main Ideas | |
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| Five Types of Paragraphs Likely to Imply the Main Idea More on Evaluating Your Inferences | |
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| Test 6 Vocabulary Review | |
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| More on the Function of Supporting Details | |
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| Supporting Details Develop | |
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| Topic Sentences Understanding the Difference Between Major and Minor Details | |
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| Topic Sentences Help Identify Major Details Transitions and Major Details Reader-Supplied Inferences and Supporting Details Visual Aids as Supporting Details | |
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| Concluding Sentences and Supporting Details | |
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| Beyond the Paragraph: Reading Longer Selections | |
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| Moving Beyond the Paragraph Diagramming | |
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| Major and Minor Details | |
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| Implied Main Ideas in Longer Readings | |
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| Monitoring Comprehension with Informal Outlines | |
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| Taking Notes with Informal Outlines Introducing Graphic Organizers | |
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| Recognizing Patterns of Organization in Paragraphs | |
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| Definition | |
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| Time Order | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| Classification Identifying the "Primary" Pattern | |
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| Combining Patterns in Paragraphs and Longer Readings | |
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| Combining Patterns in Paragraphs Seeing Patterns in Longer Readings | |
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| More on Purpose, Tone, and Bias Why Think About Purpose? | |
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| Informative Writing | |
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| Persuasive writing Separating Fact and Opinion | |
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| Combining Opinions with Facts Evaluating Bias in Persuasive Writing | |
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| Backing Opinions with Arguments Putting It All Together Reading | |
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| The Altruistic Personality | |
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| A Hero Scorned, USA Today Editorial | |
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| Does America Need a Third Party? | |
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| The Stereotype Trap | |
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| Reading | |
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| Where Does Free Speech End? | |
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| Reading | |
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| Memory, Perception, and Eyewitness Testimony | |
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| Reading | |
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| Kohlberg's Six Stages of Moral Judgment | |
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| Marla Ruzicka: An Activist Angel | |
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| The Wolf Children | |
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| Nuclear Power and Waste Disposal | |
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| Appendix: Reading Pie Charts and Graphs | |