Full Description
Features:
Reading skills include identifying main ideas, previewing and predicting, recognizing sequence, and making inferences.
Extensive practice in recycling and application of newly learned skills with high-interest reading selections.
Practice with word parts, synonyms and antonyms, idioms, compound words, dictionary use, and word maps.
Skills are supported by graphics, examples, and short texts that illustrate concepts and provide additional opportunities for practice and discussion. Ready to Read is the perfect series to prepare students for success in academic reading and test taking.
Contents
Scope and Sequence
CHAPTER 1 THINK BEFORE YOU READ
Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Preview, Activate Your Background Knowledge, Predict, Set a Purpose
Be an Active Reader
Reading 1: Reaching High and Living Long
Reading 2: Living Past 100
Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Word Parts-Prefixes
CHAPTER 2 IDENTIFY MAIN IDEAS
Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Identifying the Main Idea
Be an Active Reader
Reading 1: The Silk Road
Reading 2: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project
Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Word Parts - Noun Suffixes
CHAPTER 3 USE VOCABULARY STRATEGIES
Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Using Context to Guess Meaning
Be an Active Reader
Reading 1: Big Talkers
Reading 2: Koalas
CHAPTER 4 UNDERSTAND SUPPORTING DETAILS
Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Identifying Supporting Details
Be an Active Reader
Reading 1: The Power of Advertising
Reading 2: International Marketing No Va
Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Word Parts - Adjective Suffixes
CHAPTER 5 ANALYZE THE TEXT
Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Recognizing Patterns of Organization -- Listing, Sequence, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast
Be an Active Reader
Reading 1: Race to the End of the Earth
Reading 2: Lance Armstrong
Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Word Parts - Verb Suffixes
CHAPTER 6 MAKING INFERENCES
Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Making Inferences
Be an Active Reader
Reading 1: Fortune-Telling
Reading 2: The Fortune Sellers
Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Understanding Compound Words
CHAPTER 7 DISTINGUISH FACT FROM OPINION
Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Distinguishing Fact from Opinion
Be an Active Reader
Reading 1: Seattle
Reading 2: The Best Cities in the United States
Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Learning Collocations
CHAPTER 8 UNDERSTAND THE AUTHOR'S PURPOSE AND TONE
Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Understanding the Author's Purpose
Be an Active Reader
Reading 1: Why the Sea Is Salty
Reading 2: Why Is the Ocean Salty?
Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Connotation and Denotation; More Collocations
