Increase Your Score In 3 Minutes A Day: ACT Reading

by Randall McCutcheon, James Schaffer

Overview

Accessible, concise guides for quicker, more effective studying

These new additions to the Increase Your Score series present key principles and practical strategies for the ACT Writing Test (new for 2005) and the ACT Reading Test, explained in manageable, bite-size sections ideal for the panicked student. Combining humor with academic authority, these succinct guides:

• Feature essential strategies for effective essay writing or tackling reading comprehension passages under the pressure of time
• Provide sample essays or reading passages and questions, accompanied by helpful annotated comments and examiner marks
• Are ideal for students who procrastinate or who can study only in short doses
• Include cartoons (Zits, Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes) to reinforce the light, student-friendly tone

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071829946
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	07/06/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Randall McCutcheon is a high school educator nationally recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for innovation in curriculum, with experience teaching English, speech, debate, and journalism. Jim Schaffer, a finalist for the Teacher-in-Space program, is chair of the English Department at Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he teaches English and journalism.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Making This Book Work for You
Principles of Reading
1. Rev That Engine, Parnelli!
2. Know When and What to Skip
3. Crystal Bell Grazing
4. Writing Between the Lines
5. X-Ray Vision
6. Something Worth Arguing About
7. Summarily Dismissed
8. Be Chalant
9. The power of Pivot
10. Wordlubbers, Beware
11. Get a Clue, Holmes
12. Coming to Terms
13. The Harder It Comes
14. Reading Fiction
15. Come to Your Senses

Test Strategies
1. Be the Test Maker
2. Ah, the Humanity (etc)
3. Mo, Hairy and Curly Context
4. The questions are the Answers
5. Context Messaging
6. The Night Before the Night Before
7. Translate Questions into English
8. Understand Overstaments
9. Read as a writer
10. Be a Med-Tater Tot
Etc.