Chapter 1:
Strategies for Textbook Learning

Handout: Five Pointers on Improving Your Reading Rate
Handout: Break the Procrastination Habit

Chapter 2:
Building Word Power

Practice 1: Using Context Clues
Handout: Borrowed Words and Phrases
Practice 2: Borrowed Phrases from Latin
Practice 3: Borrowed Words or Phrases from French

Chapter 3:
Connecting the General
to the Specific
in Reading and Writing

Practice 1: General and Specific Sentences

Chapter 4:
From Topic to Topic Sentence

Practice 1: Identifying Topics
Practice 2: Topics and Paraphrasing

Chapter 5:
Focusing on Supporting Details

Practice 1: Recognizing Supporting Details
Practice 2: Topic Sentences and Supporting Details
Practice 3: Inferring Supporting Details

Chapter 6:
More about Inferences

Practice 1: Selecting the Better Inference
Practice 2: Drawing Inferences About Implied Main Ideas

Chapter 7:
Drawing Inferences
from Visual Aids

To be added

Chapter 8:
Beyond the Paragraph:
Reading Longer Selections

Practice 1: Identifying the Main Idea

Chapter 9:
Recognizing Patterns of Organization
in Paragraphs

Practice 1: Looking for Primary Patterns
Practice 2: Identifying Primary Patterns

Chapter 10:
Combining Patterns in Paragraphs
and Longer Readings

Practice 1: Mixed Patterns

Chapter 11:
More on Purpose, Tone, and Bias

Practice 1: Recognizing Purpose and Tone