Description
Chae Sweet's "Novel Strategies: Developing Reading Effectiveness with Literature" presents popular literary works to allow students to learn and apply their reading skills in the context of fiction and non-fiction.
Novel Strategies includes shorter literary works in the first section of the book, as students work to master specific reading skills, such as main idea or vocabulary. Part 2 offers a Reading Guide, which shows novel strategies in action, centered around three popular literary novels: "Three Cups of Tea," "The Kite Runner" and "Lost in the City." This textbook provides reading opportunities that foster preciselly the type of growth that is fundamental to effective reading and critical thinking.
Oftentimes a student comes to class stating that they have never read a book cover-to-cover before. Novel Strategies solves this problem: the overall organization, writing style, and focus on literature allows students to engage with various literary works and connect with literature -- oftentimes something that they have never done before.
Table of Contents
Part 1 The Strategies
Chapter 1 Starting Strategies
The Importance of Context
The Reading Context
The Reading Material
Key Term Review -- Multiple Choice Quiz
Strategies in Action
Superman and Me, by Sherman Alexie
Learning Styles: Different Strokes for Different Folks, by S. Ciccarelli and N. White
Chapter 2 Active Reading Strategies
Textbook Active Reading Strategies
SQ3R
Exercise 2.1 – “Technology, Transportation, and Communication”
Literature Active Reading Strategies
Previewing
Background Check
Making Connections
Predicting
Exercise 2.2
Universal Active Reading Strategy
Annotation
Exercise 2.3 – “A Story I’ll Tell You When You’re Big”
Key Term Review
Strategies in Action
The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin
Building Safe Schools for Girls in War Zones, by Anna Helrine
Chapter 3 Vocabulary Strategies
Using Context Clues
Example
Exercise 3.1
Contrast
Exercise 3.2
Definition
Exercise 3.3
Exercise 3.4
General Sense
Exercise 3.5
Restatement
Exercise 3.6
Using Word Parts
Roots
Prefixes
Suffixes
Exercise 3.7
Using Dictionary Definitions
Parts of speech
Multiple definitions
Exercise 3.8
Vocabulary Strategies Review
Combined Practice 1
Combined Practice2
Key Term Review
Strategies in Action
Learning to Read and Write, by Frederick Douglass
The Ways We Lie, by Stephanie Ericsson
Chapter 4 Comprehension Strategies: Main Ideas
Identifying Topics
Identifying Main Ideas
Stated Main Ideas
Exercise 4.1
Exercise 4.2
Implied Main Ideas
Exercise 4.3
Exercise 4.4
Exercise 4.5
Identifying Central Points
Identifying Topics & Main Ideas in Context
Exercise 4.6
Exercise 4.7
Exercise 4.8
Exercise 4.9
Key Term Review
Chapter 4 Strategy Quiz
Reading: Books and Social Change
Strategies in Action
What I’ve Learned From Men, by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Men We Carry in Our Minds, by Scott Russell Sanders
Chapter 5 Comprehension Strategies: Supporting Details
Understanding Supporting Details
Major Details
Minor Details
Identifying Supporting Details in Narratives
Identifying Supporting Details in Expository Writing
Using Supporting Details to Find Main Ideas
Exercise 5.1
Exercise 5.2
Exercise 5.3
Chapter 5 Strategy Quiz
Reading: We Ate the Children Last
Key Term Review
Strategies in Action
The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe
The CSI Effect, by Kit Roane
Chapter 6 Writing About Reading
Writing About Reading
Summaries
Questions
Writing Connections
Thematic Links
Strategies in Action
Student Obesity Linked to Proximity to Fast-food Outlets, by Jerry Hirsch
Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility, by Bovee, Thill and Mescon
Chapter 7 Critical Reading Strategies
Making Connections
Identifying Patterns of Development
Identifying Relationships
Transitional Phrases and Signal Words
Exercise 7.1
Identifying Narrative Conventions
Connecting Ideas
Exercise 7.2
Making Inferences
Making Inferences
Drawing Conclusions
Exercise 7.3
Making Predictions
Chapter 7 Strategy Quiz
Reading: The Palmist
Key Term Review - Multiple Choice Quiz
Strategies in Action
Seeing the World Whole, by Natasha Singh
Edison and the Electric Industry, by Cross and Szostak
Chapter 8 Critical Thinking Strategies
The Author’s Strategies
Purpose
Pattern of development
Publishing medium
Writing style and focus
Audience
Tone
Denotation
Connotation
Exercise 8.1
Exercise 8.2
Evaluating Arguments
Reliability
Author’s credibility
Balance of facts and opinions
Timeliness of information
Point of View
Objectivity – Subjectivity range
Bias
Language Choices
Assumptions
Exercise 8.3
Chapter 8 Strategy Quiz
Reading: Inventive Ways to Land a Cool Job
Key Term Review – Multiple Choice Quiz
Strategies in Action
Student Abuse of Prescription Drugs on Rise, by Allison Loudermilk
On the Threshold, by Mike Rose
Part 2 Short Readings
1. Graywolf: A Romance (fiction)
2. Accountability and Workplace Relationships (textbook selection)
3. Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin (nonfiction)
4. When Journalists Get It Wrong (nonfiction)
5. Global Wealth: Three Worlds (textbook selection)
6. The Lesson (fiction)
7. The Peculiar Institution (textbook selection)
8. The Icing on the Cake (nonfiction)
9. What’s in It for Me? Why Friendship Matters (textbook selection)
10. Hurricane Katrina: A Man-Made Disaster (nonfiction)
11. The Pied Piper of Brooklyn (fiction)
Part 3 The Reading Guide
Book 1: Listening Is an Act of Love, edited by David Isay
Book 2: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass
Book 3: The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Book 4: The Color of Water, James McBride
Book 5: Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
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