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Active Reading | |
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Read and Talk: CSI's Adam Rodr?guez Looks Beyond 'Miami' | |
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Reading Is an Active Process | |
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Before You Read or View, Take Four Actions | |
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Survey to get an overview of what's coming | |
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Guess the purpose of the program or reading selection | |
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Predict what's going to happen | |
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Think about your prior knowledge of the subject matter | |
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Activate Your Skills | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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While You Read or View, Stay Active and Focused | |
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Picture or hear what the author is saying | |
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Put ideas into your own words | |
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Predict what the author is going to say next | |
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Search for connections to your own life and to other ideas and situations | |
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Be open to learning something new | |
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Activate Your Skills | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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After You Read or View, Think, Talk, and Write | |
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Think about the ideas in the reading selection | |
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Talk about the ideas in the reading selection | |
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Write about the ideas in the reading selection | |
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Summary Activity: Active Reading | |
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Application: Active Reading | |
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No Michael Jacksons Here (Web site article) | |
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Reading Comprehension | |
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A Fresh Solution, by Neil Postman (nonfiction book) | |
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Vocabulary Development | |
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Read and Talk: Child Hero: Bethany Hamilton | |
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Improve Your Vocabulary to Make Reading Easier | |
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Before You Read, Use Word Parts to Expand Your Vocabulary | |
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Test your prior knowledge | |
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Look for meaning in word parts | |
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Look at prefixes for changes to meaning | |
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Look at suffixes to see how words act in sentences | |
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Word Parts Glossary | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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While You Read, Define Words in Context | |
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Find context clues while reading | |
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Recognize four kinds of context clues | |
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Look for signal words | |
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Create EASY notecards to study words | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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While You Read and After You Read, Use the Dictionary | |
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Understand different types of dictionaries | |
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Know what kinds of information you can find in a dictionary entry | |
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Activate Your Skills | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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While You Read and After You Read, Examine the Author's Tone | |
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Understand the difference between denotation and connotation | |
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Consider a word's degree of intensity | |
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Tone supports the author's purpose | |
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Learn to use more specific tone words | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Summary Activity: Vocabulary Development | |
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Application: Vocabulary Development | |
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Mistakes, I've Made a Few, by Kyle Busch (online newspaper article) | |
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Test 2: Reading Comprehension | |
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Winning Every Day: Pat Summitt's Strategy Centers on Goal Setting (magazine article) | |
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MAPPs for Reading Comprehension | |
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Read and Talk: "I Know What I Like" (music textbook) | |
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MAPP: A Reading Plan | |
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Mark: Ask Questions and Mark the Answers | |
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Form questions from titles and headings | |
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Read for the answer to your question | |
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Mark the answer to your question | |
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Activate Your Skills | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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About: Find the Topic | |
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The A of MAPP is "About." What is the reading about? | |
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The topic | |
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The topic is repeated | |
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The topic is general | |
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Decide how broad or narrow the topic is | |
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Point: Identify the Main Idea | |
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The first P of MAPP is "Point." What is the point? | |
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The main idea | |
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The main idea isn't always stated | |
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Proof: Recognize the Supporting Details | |
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The second P of MAPP Is "Proof." What is the proof for the author's point? | |
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The supporting details | |
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Major details are different from minor details | |
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Summary Activity: MAPP for Reading Comprehension | |
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Application: MAPP for Reading Comprehension | |
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The Mystery of Music, by Sting (commencement speech) | |
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Reading Comprehension | |
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The Power of Music, by Judy Foreman (online magazine article) | |
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Reading Textbooks | |
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Read and Talk: Romanovs (1918) (Forensics textbook) | |
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Reading Textbooks for Maximum Comprehension | |
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Recognizing Patterns of Organization | |
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Major details are often organized in patterns | |
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Time order: When did that happen? | |
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Space order: Where are things located? | |
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Definition: What does this mean? | |
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Examples: What are examples of this general idea? | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Recognizing More Patterns of Organization | |
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Cause and effect: What made this happen? | |
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What does this lead to? | |
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Comparison and contrast: How are these the same? | |
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How do they differ? | |
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Classification: What kinds are there? | |
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Studying Textbook Chapters | |
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Make sense of the "text" in your textbook | |
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Learn useful note taking strategies | |
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Use the chapter resources to improve your comprehension | |
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Interpret the meaning of visuals | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Summary Activity: Reading Textbooks | |
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Application: Reading Textbooks | |
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William Bass (textbook) | |
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Reading Comprehension | |
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CSI Effect (magazine) | |
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Critical Reading | |
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Read and Talk: Failure Is a Good Thing, by Jon Carroll (online article) | |
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Thinking Critically About What You Read | |
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Asking Questions to Improve Your Thinking | |
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Critical thinking is a learning process | |
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Critical thinking level 1: Remember | |
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Critical thinking level 2: Understand | |
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Critical thinking level 3: Apply | |
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Critical thinking level 4: Analyze | |
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Critical thinking level 5: Evaluate | |
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Critical thinking level 6: Create | |
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Recognizing critical thinking verbs on tests | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Analyzing Facts, Opinions, and Inferences | |
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Facts can be verified | |
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Opinions cannot be verified | |
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Facts and opinions often appear together | |
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A fact is a fact, but an opinion needs to be supported by proof | |
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Certain kinds of words indicate opinions | |
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Inferences are made from the author's words and your logic | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Master Your Skills | |
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Summary Activity: Critical Reading | |
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Application: Critical Thinking | |
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Lessons from the Oscars: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities | |
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Test 5: Reading Comprehension | |
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Joe Kapp: Life Lessons from a, Football Superstar, from Yolanda Nava, ed. (nonfiction book) | |
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Readings | |
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Reading Comprehension Skills Review | |
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Hunger Pangs | |
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The Science of Appetite | |
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Why Do I Overeat? (health textbook) | |
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Money Is Tight, and Junk Food Beckons | |
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Relating to Others | |
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A Tense Moment in Iraq | |
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Your Facebook Relationship Status: It's Complicated | |
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Understanding Empathy: Can You Feel My Pain? | |
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Making Healthy Choices | |
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Bragging on MySpace | |
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A Soap Opera's Sex Is All for a Good Cause | |
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder | |
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Going Green in the City | |
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Landscaped Roofs Have Chicago Mayor Seeing Green | |
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Introducing Nice Ride--A Bike Sharing Program (Web site) | |
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The Greening of the Urban Animal | |
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More Tips for Reading and Taking Tests | |
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Reading Fiction | |
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Reading Online | |
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Taking Tests | |