Full Description
Maximize Your Reading 1 provides students with instruction and practice in developing their academic reading, vocabulary, and study skills. The four levels of Maximize Your Reading Workbooks feature useful strategies and abundant practice, helping students become confident and successful readers.
This flexible four-level workbook series can be used with any other reading texts or integrated skills courses.
Highlights
Reading Comprehension section offers extensive reading and critical thinking skill development and includes skimming, scanning, previewing, predicting, making inferences, and recognizing patterns.
Vocabulary Building section helps students develop the essential vocabulary-building strategies and includes practice in dictionary work, recognizing word parts and collocations, and guessing meaning from context.
Reading Faster section includes longer readings and allows students to apply reading skills and strategies and build their fluency and flexibility in reading longer texts. Timed and untimed reading options help students develop the fluency skills needed to read and understand texts quickly.
Pre- and post-tests provide formative assessment at the beginning of the course and summative assessment at the end. End-of-section tests allow student to check how well they understood the content of each section.
Clear skill presentations provide explanations and give students extra reinforcement.
Contents
Reading Level 1 — Beginner
Pre-Test
Comprehension Skills
Previewing and Predicting
Previewing
Predicting
Identifying Topics and Main Ideas
Identifying the Topic of a List
Understanding Paragraphs
Identifying the Topic of a Paragraph
Identifying the Main Idea
Scanning
Scanning for Letters and Letter Combinations
Scanning for Key Words and Phrases
Scanning for Information
Recognizing Patterns
Recognizing Time Order
Listing Pattern
Sequence Pattern
Making Inferences
Making Inferences from Pictures
Making Inferences from Riddles
Making Inferences from Conversations and Stories
Comprehension Skills Practice Test
Vocabulary Building
Dictionary Work
Using the Dictionary
Parts of Speech
Finding the Right Meaning
Word Parts
Prefixes
Suffixes
Word Forms and Families
Guessing Meaning from Context
What Is Context?
Guessing the Meaning of Words
How Words Work Together
Phrases
Parts of Sentences
Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
Vocabulary Building Practice Test
Thinking in English
Thinking in English Practice
Thinking in English Practice Test
Study Skills
Dictionary Words
Choosing Words to Learn
Storing and Studying New Words
Tips for Reading Tests
Language in Context
Appendices
Appendix 1 Taking Notes: Identifying Key Ideas
Appendix 2 Underlining and Highlighting
Appendix 3 Reading Strategies
Appendix 4 The Most Common Words
Appendix 5 Transitions for Time Order
Appendix 6 Transitions for Patterns
Post-Test
Answer Key
