Synopses & Reviews
Structured Reading is grounded in the theory that students learn best from guided, hands-on experience with complete, not partial, reading selections. This text approaches students with detailed instruction in the separate skills areas that assure movement to college-level reading abilities, followed by extensive, repeated practice found in a variety of essays from books, magazines, and texts.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1 Skills for Reading
Chapter 1 What Is Your Personal Reading HISTory?
Chapter 2 What Is the Reading Process?
Chapter 3 What Is the Role of “SQ3R” When Reading to Study?
Chapter 4 How Can I Improve My Vocabulary?
Chapter 5 What Are “Central Theme” and “Main Ideas”?
Chapter 6 What Are “Major Details”?
Chapter 7 How Can Maps, Outlines, and Visuals Help with Reading?
Chapter 8 What Are “Inferences”?
Chapter 9 What Is “Critical Reading”?
Chapter 10 Critical Reading: What Are “The Author’s Strategies”?
Chapter 11 Critical Reading: What Is a “Summary”?
Chapter 12 What Is “Reader’s Response”?
Answers to Activities in Part One
Part 2
Selection 1 A Real Loss by Fern Kupfer
Vocabulary list with dictionary entries
Exercises:
1A Vocabulary
1B Central Theme and Main Ideas
1C Major Details
1D Inferences
1E Critical Reading: Fact or Opinion
1F Critical Reading: The Author’s Strategies
1G Reader’s Process: Summarizing Your Reading
1H Reader’s Response: To Discuss or to Write About
Selection 2 To Catch a Thief by Stephen Holt
*Selection 3 Freegans Salvage Food from the City’s Bountiful Garbage by Eliabeth Giegerich
Selection 4 Seoul Searching by Rick Reilly
Selection 5 Darkness at Noon by Harold Krents
*Selection 6 Ugly and Lovable by Larry Levin
Part 3
Selection 7 Summer by Jonathan Schwartz
Selection 8 Brains the Ultimate Sex Appeal by Wendi C. Thomas
Selection 9 The Girl with the Large Eyes by Julius Lester Genes and Behavior: A Twin Legacy by Constance Holden
*Selection 10 Divorcing Couples Seek Solace in Ring-Smashing Ceremonies by Sandra Barron
Selection 11 Flour Children by Lexine Alpert
Selection 12 The Magic Words Are “Will You Help Me?” by Michael Ryan
Part 4
Selection 13 How to Stay Alive by Art Hoppe
*Selection 14 Waging War on Wrinkles by Jessica Dye
*Selection 15 The Danger of Hoarding by Joyce Cohen
Selection 16 Forty Acres and a Holiday by Lisa Jones
Selection 17 My Mother’s Blue Bowl by Alice Walker
Selection 18 From In Search of Bernabé by Graciela Limón