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Main Idea, The: Reading to Learn, 4th Edition
ISBN-10: 0-321-14242-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-321-14242-9
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© 2005
Pub. Date: Jul 14, 2004
Format: Paper
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Table of Contents
To the Instructor.
To the Student.
I.
1. Vocabulary Strategies for College Reading.
Context Strategies.
Explanations.
Practice 1.
Signal Words.
Practice 2.
Contrast.
Practice 3.
Print Symbol Strategies.
Practice 4.
Word Parts Strategy.
Prefixes.
Practice 5.
Practice 6.
Suffixes.
Practice 7.
Practice 8.
Root Words.
Practice 9.
Practice 10
Dictionary Strategies.
Information in a Short Dictionary Entry.
Practice 11.
Information in a Long Dictionary Entry.
Additional Dictionary Information.
Practice 12.
Multiple Meanings.
Practice 13.
Review Vocabulary Strategies.
Remembering New Words.
Predict, Verify and Record.
Practice 14.
Practice 15.
Practice 16.
Review: Remembering New Words.
2. Applying Vocabulary Strategies.
Mathematics Vocabulary.
Practice 1.
Practice 2.
Practice 3.
Practice 4.
Installment Purchases (Gerver and Sgroi).
Marketing Vocabulary.
Practice 5.
Practice 6.
Important Points in the Chapter (Diamond and Pintel).
Practice 7.
Psychology Vocabulary.
Practice 8.
Practice 9.
Strategies of Effortful Encoding (Plotnik).
Practice 10.
Humanities Vocabulary.
Practice 11.
Practice 12.
Valuing Life: Valuing Beauty (Jacobs).
Practice 13.
Environmental Science Vocabulary.
Practice 14.
Practice 15.
Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They Work? (Miller).
3. Getting Started.
Developing a Mind Set.
Freewriting.
Practice 1.
Listing.
Practice 2.
Previewing.
What Is Previewing?
Previewing College Textbooks.
Practice 3.
Practice 4.
Review: Previewing a College Textbook.
Previewing Textbook Chapters.
Tips Strategy.
Practice 5.
Consumer Needs and Motivation (Schiffman and Kanuk).
Previewing Visual Aids.
Practice 6.
Practice 7.
4. Getting Started with Reading Selections.
Practice 1.
Lost in a Vitamin Maze? (Graham).
Practice 2.
Spread the Mood (Kaylin).
Questions about the Preview Selections.
Practice 3.
Garbage Overboard (Stoller).
Practice 4.
Plate Tectonics and the Scientific Method (Plummer, McGeary and Carlson).
Review: Previewing a Reading Selection.
Questions about Previewing.
II. WHILE YOU READ.
5. Locating the Main Idea.
Questions.
The Main Idea.
Find Topics or Subjects.
Practice 1.
Finding Stated Main Ideas in Paragraphs.
Practice 2.
Practice 3.
Finding Unstated Main Ideas in Paragraphs.
Practice 4.
Finding Details in Paragraphs.
Practice 5.
Finding the Main Idea in Visual Aids.
Practice 6.
Finding Controlling Ideas in Longer Selections.
Practice 7.
(Example) American Families Today (Woolfolk).
The Purpose of a Resume (Beatty).
Cardiovascular Fitness (Open Water Diver's Manual).
Gypsies (Kephart and Zellner).
Are You Sick of Those Phony Sweepstakes? (Bowe).
Latinos (Hess, Markson, and Stein).
Review: Main Idea.
Questions about Finding the Main Idea.
6. Writing to Read and Remember.
Marking Important Information.
Practice 1.
(Example) Choosing a Wet Suit (Open Water Diver's Manual).
Language (Lederer).
Managers (Haimann, Scott and Connor).
Computers (Leedy).
Annotating Text.
Practice 2.
(Example) American Democracy (Bassis, Gelles and Levine).
Types of Warranties (Gerver and Sgroi).
Illiterate? Who, U.S? (Bassis, Gelles and Levine).
Questions about the Selections.
Review: Writing to Read and Remember.
Questions about Writing to Read and Remember.
8. Using Game Plans with Longer Selections.
Practice 1.
Early Settlers in the Americas (Eibling, Jackson and Perrone).
Practice 2.
Smoking-A Slow Suicide (Simone).
Questions about the Textbook Chapters.
Practice 3.
Culture Clash: Foreign Parents, American Child Rearing (Ojito).
Essay Question.
III. AFTER YOU READ.
9. Recognizing Writers' Patterns.
Written Patterns of Organization.
Listing.
Example.
Plan.
Signal Words.
Practice.
Order.
Example.
Plan.
Signal Words.
Practice.
Cause-Effect.
Example.
Plan.
Signal Words.
Practice.
Comparison-Contrast.
Example.
Plan.
Signal Words.
Practice.
Definition-Example.
Example.
Plan.
Signal Words.
Practice.
More Written Patterns of Organization.
Statement of Clarification.
Plan.
Signal Words.
Classification.
Plan.
Signal Words.
Summary.
Plan.
Signal Words.
Addition.
Plan.
Signal Words.
Location/Spatial Order.
Plan.
Signal Words.
Order of Importance.
Plan.
Signal Words.
Practice with Textbook Selections.
Selection A: “Best Sellers” (Vivian).
Selection B: “The Zone” (Sears).
Selection C: “Elitist vs. Populist Values” (Vivian).
Selection D: “The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences” (Henslin).
Selection E: “Mandatory Education” (Henslin).
10. Organizing Information for Study.
Outlining.
Practice 1.
(Examples) “Gender Differences in Aggression” (Wood and Wood).
A Nation of Beepers (Kiplinger).
Gender Stereotyping - Who Wins? Who Loses? (Wood and Wood).
Risk Factors for Becoming an Alcoholic (Plotnik).
A Function of Education: Socialization,( Conklin).
Frederick Douglass (O'Connor and Sabato).
Review: Outlining.
Questions about Outlining.
Mapping.
Practice 3.
(Examples) Purpose of a Résumé (Beatty).
Choosing a Wet Suit (Open Water Diver's Manual).
Heartening Health News (Vimont).
Alternative Medicine (NEA Today).
Mayan Culture (Risjord).
Depression (Smith).
Profit (Ebenstein and Fogelman).
Review: Mapping.
Questions about Mapping.
Summarizing.
Practice 4.
(Example) Gender Differences in Aggression, (Wood and Wood).
Questions about Summarizing.
Women and Karate (Becker).
Amelia Bloomer and Women's Dress Reform (Risjord).
Drowsiness and Driving (National Safety Council).
The Concept of Occupational Crime (Greene).
Review: Summarizing.
More Questions about Summarizing.
11. Organizing Information with Longer Readings.
Practice 1.
Lifestlye Patterns in Adulthood (Wood and Wood).
Practice 2.
Packaging (Diamond and Pintel).
Questions about the Two Textbook Selections.
Practice 3.
Eating Disorders–The Tyranny of the Scale (Wood and Wood).
Group Activity.
Practice 4.
The Big Fat Lie (Stern).
Essay Question.
Group Activity.
IV. CRITICAL READING.
12. Information Literacy.
Newspapers: Critical Thinking and Reading Strategies.
Practice 1.
Newspapers and Critical Thinking (Skidell).
Making Sense of Information.
News Stories.
Practice 2.
Group Activity.
Editorials.
Practice 3.
Evaluating Information.
Following a Writer's Argument and Reasoning.
Practice 4.
Working with Complete Editorials.
Practice 5.
Tougher Standards for College Athletes (New York Post).
Air Safety Need Not Be Pie in the Sky (Francillon).
Group Activity 1.
Group Activity 2.
Reading Textbooks: Information for Lifelong Learning.
Practice 6.
Managing Stress (Donatelle).
13. Information Technology.
Reading the Web.
Searching the Web.
Reading the Web Critically.
A Word of Caution.
Practice 1.
The Information Highway (Vivian).
Reading the Web: Strategies to Use Information Technology Critically.
Practice 1.
World Wide Web (Vivian).
Practice 2.
Public Policy and the Web.
14. Make Informed Decisions About Information.
Separate Fact from Opinion.
Facts.
Opinion.
Facts and Opinions.
Practice 1.
Group Activity.
Practice 2.
Blacks Need Uncle Sam (Malveaux).
Make Inferences.
Practice 3.
Delivering Your Speech (Beebe and Beebe).
In My Father's House (Masello).
Make and Take Notes: Double-Entry Journals.
Practice 5.
(Example) Say the Pledge! (McLeod).
Should Marijuana Be Legalized for Medical Uses? (No). (Ruzzamenti).
Should Organ Donation Be Automatic Unless a Person Has Expressly Forbidden It? (Yes). (Nelson).
Write Your Own Opinion.
Practice 6.
Practice 7.
Should Marijuana Be Legalized for Medical Uses? (Yes). (Zeese).
Should Organ Donation Be Automatic Unless a Person as Expressly Forbidden It? (No). (Murray).
Group Activity.
Critical Reading Strategy.
15. Reading College Text Material.
P.A.S. Strategy.
Practice 1.
The Cordless Tie That Binds People to Work (Goodman).
Sources of Stress: The Common and the Extreme (Wood and Wood).
Comparison and Contrast.
Practice 2.
Practice 3.
Richard Cory (Robinson).
Barbie Doll (Piercy).
Practice 4.
Steven Spielberg (Vivian).
Spike Lee (Vivian).
Review: College Text Reading Strategies.
V. READING SELECTIONS.
16. Readings: Issues of the 21st Century.
Selection 1: Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the Family (Bassis, Gelles and Levine).
Before You Read.
While You Read.
After You Read
Selection 2: What Kind of Care Is Best for Your Child? (Wood and Wood).
Before You Read.
While You Read.
After You Read.
Selection 3: My Dear Camera (Ashe and Rampersad).
Before You Read.
While You Read.
After You Read.
Selection 4: City of Brooklyn (Tremblay).
Before You Read.
While You Read.
After You Read.
Selection 5: Diversity in U.S. Families (Henslin).
Before You Read.
While You Read.
After You Read.
Selection 6: A Changing Workplace (Fulton-Calkins and Hanks).
Before You Read.
While You Read.
After You Read.
Selection 7: I'm Listening as Hard as I Can (Gallaway).
Before You Read.
While You Read.
After You Read.
Selection 8: Climatic Change and the Norse Greenland Tragedy ().
Before You Read.
While You Read.
After You Read.
Selection 9: Death and Justice (Koch).
Before You Read.
While You Read.
After You Read.
Selection 10: September 11, 2001: The New Face of War? (Snow).
Before You Read.
While You Read.
After You Read.
Appendix A: Test-Taking Strategies.
The Best General Test Preparation.
Types of Tests.
Objective Tests.
Essay Tests.
When the Test Is Announced.
At the Test.
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