Description
Making Meaning is a developmental reading text that balances teaching phonics and whole language skills for students who read below the 6th grade level. The text is designed to be visually appealing through the use of numerous photographs and other graphics, and provides the tools needed to acquire the reading, writing, thinking, and reasoning skills that will enable students to effectively process, analyze, and learn information on their own. Its recursive structure gives students the opportunity in each chapter to practice and integrate skills learned from previous lessons, and apply those reading strategies to many kinds of texts.
Table of Contents
Preface: To the Instructor
Introduction: Making Meaning from What You Read
1. Preparing to Read
Chapter Preview
Making Meaning
Introduction
STRUCTURED INSTRUCTION AND EXERCISES
Pre-reading
Reading: Choosing a Job in a Nursing Home
Title, Headings, Bullets, and Visuals
Connecting to Prior Knowledge
Predicting What a Reading is About
Reader Response 1-1
Reader Response 1-2
Everyday Pre-reading
Pre-reading and Visual Information
How to Preview (or Pre-read) a Textbook
Reading a Textbook Chapter
PRACTICING WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
Practice 1-1 through 1-4: The Struggle for Civil Rights
Practice 1-5: Reading a Chart, African-American Voter Registration in The South, 1960-1970
Practice 1-6 through 1-9: Pre-reading a Play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Summary
MASTERY TESTS
Mastery Test 1-1: American History: The Struggle for Civil Rights
Mastery Test 1-2: Reading a Map, USA Time Zones
Mastery Test 1-3: Reading a Chart, Stages of Human Development
Mastery Test 1-4: Reading a Graph, “From the Bottom to the Top”
Reader Response 1-3
Mastery Test 1-5:Reading a Webpage, Recycling
Reader Response 1-4
Progress Chart
2. Recognizing Consonants and Vowels
Chapter Preview
Making Meaning
Introduction
Structured Instruction and Exercises
Consonants
Vowels
Reading: A Long Night Ahead, M. C. Dore
Practicing What You Have Learned
Practice 2-1: Consonants, The Search Goes On, M. C. Dore
Reader Response 2-1
Practice 2-2: Consonants, The Evening Dress, Tina Page
Practice 2-3: Comprehension The Evening Dress, Tina Page
Practice 2-4: Consonants, You Entered Me in What??? M. C. Dore
Practice 2-5: Comprehension, You Entered Me in What??? M. C. Dore
Reader Response 2-2
Practice 2-6: Vowels, At Nighttime, Aileen Fisher
Practice 2-7: Vowels, Marathon Dancing
Summary
Mastery Tests
Mastery Test 2-1: Consonants, Directions to the Party
Mastery Test 2-2: Consonants
Mastery 2-3: Consonants and Comprehension, Ending Up at the Wrong Hotel in the Wrong Country, Christina Page
Mastery 2-4: Vowels: Miss America
Looking Back
Looking Back 2-1: Prereading, Vowels, and Comprehension, Purring Predators: Housecats and Their Prey, David Krough
Looking Back 2-2: Outline, Purring Predators
Looking Back 2-3: Asking Questions, When I Was Left Behind, M. C. Dore
Looking Back 2-4: Comprehension, Body Art? Fashion Statement? Tattoos!
Reader Response 2-3
Looking Back 2-5: Comprehension, In Her Footsteps, Courtney Angela Brkic
Progress Chart
3. Recognizing Syllables and Word Parts
Chapter Preview
Making Meaning
Introduction
Structured Instruction and Exercises
Word Parts
Syllables
Syllabication
Practicing What You Have Learned
Practice 3-1: Word Parts
Practice 3-2: Syllabication
Practice 3-3: Syllabication, Word Parts, and Comprehension, Medicine, Palmira Brimmett, et al
Summary
Mastery Tests
Mastery Test 3-1: Using Words in Sentences
Mastery Test 3-2: Dividing Words into Syllables
Mastery Test 3-3: Suffixes
Mastery test 3-4: Comprehension, Word Parts, and Syllabication, In Pain, Gorilla Puts in a Call to the Dentist
Looking Back
Looking Back 3-1: Comprehension and Vowels, William Shakespeare, Palmira Brimmett, et al
Looking Back 3-2: Comprehension, Vowels, Consonants, and Vocabulary, The Guardian: Enoch Kelly Haney, Rick J. Moore
Reader Response 3-1
Progress Chart
4. Using a Dictionary
Chapter Preview
Making Meaning
Introduction
Structured Instruction and Exercises
Pre-reading a dictionary
Spelling
Syllables
Syllabication
Pronunciation
Meaning
Parts of Speech
Word Origins
Practicing What You Have Learned
Practice 4-1 through 4-9: Dictionary skills
Practice 4-10: Dictionary Skills, Beauty from a Distance
Practice 4-11: Parts of Speech, Marly
Practice 4-12: Language of Origin, My nephew Andre
Summary
Mastery Tests
Mastery Test 4-1: Spelling
Reader Response 4-1
Mastery Test 4-2: Syllables
Reader Response 4-2
Mastery Test 4-3: Pronunciation, Obesity
Mastery Test 4-4: Vocabulary, Job Hunting
Reader Response 4-3
Mastery Test 4-5: Comprehension, Appointment in Samarra, W. Somerset Maugham
Mastery Test 4-6: Parts of Speech
Mastery Test 4-7: Origin of Words
Reader Response 4-4
Mastery Test 4-8: Comprehension and Word Parts, Big Mac Attack, James M. Rubenstein
Reader Response 4-5
Looking Back
Looking Back 4-1: Pre-reading, After the Suspect
Looking Back 4-2: Parts of Speech and Root Words
Looking Back 4-3: Consonants
Looking Back 4-4: Vowel Sounds
Reader Response 4-6
Progress Chart
5. Discovering Context Clues
Chapter Preview
Making Meaning
Introduction
Reader Response 5-1
Structured Instruction and Exercises
Types of Context Clues
Definition Clues
Example Clues
Antonyms (opposites) Clues
Synonyms (similar to) Clues
General Sense of the Passage
Practicing What You Have Learned
Practice 5-1: Context Clues, How Cold Is It? (Part One), Han Rue
Reader Response 5-2
Practice 5-2: Comprehension, How Cold Is It? (Part Two), Han Rue
Reader Response 5-3
Practice 5-3: Comprehension, How Cold Is It? (Part Three), Han Rue
Reader Response 5-4
Practice 5-4 through 5-7: Context Clues, excerpts from Small Steps, Peg Kehret
Reader Response 5-5
Summary
Mastery Tests
Mastery Test 5-1 and 5-2: Context Clues in Sentences
Mastery Test 5-3: Comprehension, Unplanned, Laura Ream
Mastery Test 5-4: Context Clues, Trapping the Tsetse Fly
Mastery Test 5-5: Comprehension and Context Clues, University Days, James Thurber
Reader Response 5-6
Looking Back
Looking Back: 5-1 Word Study
Progress Chart
6. Finding the Main Idea
Chapter Preview
Making Meaning
Introduction
Structured Instruction and Exercises
Topics
Main Ideas in Paragraphs
Main Ideas in Longer Readings
Reading: What is Ethnic Cleansing? James M. Rubenstein
Reading: Marijuana
Practicing What You Have Learned
Practice 6-1 through 6-3: General and Specific Ideas
Practice 6-4: Alike and Different
Practice 6-5: Topic, Run for Cover!
Practice 6-6: Comprehension, Sports in Popular Culture, James M. Rubenstein
Reader Response 6-1
Practice 6-7: Organization and Comprehension, Out of the Way!
Practice 6-8: Organization and Comprehension, The Hoover Dam
Practice 6-9: Thesis, Main Ideas, and Details, Special Athletes
Summary
Mastery Tests
Mastery Test 6-1: Main Idea and Details, Stingers
Reader Response 6-2
Mastery Test 6-2: Topic, Main Idea, and Details, River Drivers — On a Roll!
Reader Response 6-3
Mastery Test 6-3: Topic, Main Ideas, and Details, Cars That Think?
Mastery Test 6-4: Topics, Main Ideas, and Details, A Modern Plague
Looking Back
Looking Back 6-1: Context Clues, It’s Not Funny!
Looking Back 6-2: Word Skills, Dream Catcher
Looking Back 6-3 Pre-reading & Predicting, American Monument
Looking Back 6-4: Pre-reading & Predicting, Gardner Rules!
Reader Response 6-4
Progress Chart
7. Finding Supporting Details
Chapter Preview
Making Meaning
Introduction
Structured Instruction and Exercises
Paragraph Organization and Supporting Details
Reading: Easy Gardening
Reading: Easy Traveling
Visual Supporting Details
Transitional Words and Phrases
Practicing What You Have Learned
Practice 7-1: Supporting Details
Practice 7-2: Topic and Details, Scamming the Shopper
Practice 7-3: Main Ideas and Details, Storms (graphic organizer)
Reader Response 7-1
Practice 7-4 Topic, Main Idea, and Details, What Goes Down…? Don K. Scott
Practice 7-5: Main Idea and Details, Travel Destinations by Distance from Oklahoma City (bar graph)
Practice 7-6: Create a Chart
Practice 7-7: Transitional Words, Friends Forever
Practice 7-8 Write Paragraph with Transitions
Summary
Mastery Tests
Mastery Test 7-1: Main Idea and Details, Miami Here We Come
Mastery Test 7-2: Main Idea and Details, Lady of the Woods
Mastery Test 7-3: Main Idea and Details, Babysitting Terrible Todd
Mastery Test 7-4: Supporting Details
Mastery Test 7-5: Main Idea and Details, Travel Destinations by Distance and Driving Time from Oklahoma City, Map
Mastery Test 7-6: Main Idea and Details, Of Horrors and Heroes, Charles Ramsden
Mastery Test 7-7: The Magic of Poetry
Looking Back
Looking Back 7-1: Main Ideas
Looking Back 7-2: Context Clues and Charts, Jenny’s Science Project
Looking Back 7-3: Pre-reading and Charts, College Student Living Arrangements
Looking Back 7-4: Consonant and Vowel Sounds, Main Idea, and Supporting Details, Spring, William Blake
Looking Back 7-5: Write about a photograph
Progress Chart
8. Additional Readings
Chapter Preview
Making Meaning
Readings
Reading 8-1: Omaha’s First Water Company, Harold Whipple
Reading 8-2: Sawmill Revenge, Harold Whipple
Reading 8-3: Social Studies Problem Solving and Data Interpretation
Reading 8-4: Two Wolves
Reader Response 8-1
Reading 8-5: Santa Clause Did Visit, Christina Page
Reading 8-6: Symbols of Christmas, Alice Doray
Reader Response 8-2
Reading 8-7: Mars!
Reading 8-8: Wedding Charm, Deborah Cummings Doray (poem)
Reading 8-9: The Flower-fed Buffaloes, Vachel Lindsy (poem)
Reader Response 8-3
Reading 8-10: Excerpt from Internet college journal, Laura Eskridge
Reader Response 8-4
Reading 8-11: Excerpt from A Painted House, John Grisham
Reading 8-12: Language — A Code to Sail Dreams, Debby Dobbs (poem)
Reader Response 8-5
Reading 8-13: A Vacation with Ghosts, Ruth Ozeki
Reader Response 8-6
Reading 8-14: Hurricane Katrina
Reading 8-15: As Town for Deaf Takes Shape, Debate on Isolation Re-emerges, Monica Davey
Reader Response 8-7
Reading 8-16: Next to the Express Checkout, Express Medical Care, Michelle Andrews
Reader Response 8-8
Reading 8-17: Was It a Dream?, Guy De Maupassant (short story)
Reader Response 8-9
Reading 8-18: The Tornado of the Century, Pat Richardson
Reader Response 8-10
Appendix A: WORDNOTES and Student Vocabulary Log
Appendix B: Glossary of Technical Terms
Subject Index
Purchase Info
ISBN-10: 0-321-35560-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-321-35560-7
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