Get Ready to Read / Edition 1

by Karen Blanchard

Overview

Features:

• Reading skills include identifying main ideas, previewing and predicting, recognizing sequence, and making inferences.
• Extensive practice in recycling and application of newly learned skills with high-interest reading selections.
• Practice with word parts, synonyms and antonyms, idioms, compound words, dictionary use, and word maps.

Skills are supported by graphics, examples, and short texts that illustrate concepts and provide additional opportunities for practice and discussion. Ready to Read is the perfect series to prepare students for success in academic reading and test taking.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900131776486
Publication date:	12/29/2004
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Karen Blanchard and Christine Root each have taught English language instruction at the university level for more than twenty years. Karen has an M.S.Ed in TESOL from the University of Pennsylvania, and Christine has an M.Ed in English Education from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. They began their textbook collaboration with the Ready to Write series while they were lecturers at the University of Pennsylvania. They have since written many reading and writing skills books and continue to enjoy working together to create English language textbooks for students around the world.

Table of Contents

Scope and Sequence

Chapter 1 WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT? FINDING THE TOPIC

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Finding the Topic

Be an Active Reader: Interview with Mong Meng

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Using a Dictionary–Alphabetizing, Guidewords

Chapter 2 LOOK IT OVER: PREVIEWING AND PREDICTING

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Previewing, Predicting, Making Corrections

Be an Active Reader: What Color Are Your Wearing?

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Using a Dictionary–Idioms

Chapter 3 READING FOR MEANING: MAIN IDEAS, SUPPORTING DETAILS

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Main Ideas, Supporting Details

Be an Active Reader: Picture This: Photography, Past and Present

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Using a Dictionary–Parts of Speech

Chapter 4 FINDING THE ORDER: RECOGNIZING TIME ORDER

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Recognizing Time Order

Be an Active Reader: Things Happen for a Reason

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Using Context Clues

Chapter 5 READ QUICKLY: SCANNING FOR INFORMATION

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Scanning

Be an Active Reader: Let’s Dance

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Using Word Maps

Chapter 6 EVALUATE INFORMATION: DISTINGUISHING FACTS FROM OPINIONS

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Distinguishing Facts from Opinion

Be an Active Reader: Beckham: A Soccer Superstar

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Suffixes

Chapter 7 USE THE CLUES: MAKING INFERENCES

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Making Inferences

Be an Active Reader: My Travels by Train in the Western United States

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Prefixes

READ FASTER

Answer Key

Keep Track of Your Progress

Editorial Reviews

Click here to read a review of Get Ready to Read, Ready to Read Now, and Ready to Read More. The review is written by Deirdre Garr, an adjunct faculty member at Camden County College, Blackwood, NJ. The review is in PDF format.

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