Success With Reading 1

ebook Thinking About Reading

By Gregory John Bahlmann

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Success With Reading is a four-volume series of exercise books designed to develop reading competence and improve reading skills. Each book contains 100 articles on various topics and multiple comprehension questions to test readers' ability to recall and understand what they read in the articles.

Each book is divided into four units, which concentrate on different reading strategies, including Reading Skills, Word Study, Study Strategies, and Final Reviews. As readers use this book, they equip themselves with not only reading capability but also knowledge about a wide variety of subjects that include arts & literature, animals, history, science, and sports.

Key Features

1. Different Levels of Learning

Levels of learning material are designed to suit readers of different levels of English ability. Readers can select books for their appropriate level to make reading more engaging and effective.

2. A Wide Variety of Reading Topics

The subject-rich articles in this book bring reading passages to life, focusing on the world's hottest issues and attractive topics. Subjects from across different fields—including topics from arts & literature, history, culture, mystery, and science—enrich readers' knowledge while strengthening reading skills. Many forms of colorful graphics throughout the book also help enhance readers' learning experience.

3. A Wide Range of Reading Strategies

Learners will benefit from a wide range of practical strategies with the target to become more strategic and effective readers.

  • Reading Skills contain core skills needed for readers to make progress in reading, such as identifying Subject Matter, Main Idea, Supporting Details, Sequencing, and Cause and Effect.

  • Word Study highlights skills for building vocabulary and understanding new vocabulary in a text, such as practice with Synonyms, Antonyms, and Words in Context.

  • Study Strategies show the application of basic information-seeking skills such as Visual Material and Reference Sources.

  • Final Reviews provide bountiful reading material and probing questions that aim to examine how well readers absorb the ideas and information in the book.

    4. Focused, Meaningful Practice Tests

    This book offers multiple comprehension questions that reinforce word recognition and reading comprehension. Readers can evaluate themselves effectively by using these tests, making this book an excellent resource for use at home or in school and providing the best preparation material for the General Scholastic Ability Test, the Department Required Test, the TOEIC, the TOEFL, and the IELTS.

    Contents

    UNIT 1 Reading Skills

    1-1 Subject Matter

    1. A Trip to Yellowstone National Park

    2. The Amazing Butterfly

    3. The Battle of Midway

    4. Harvard University

    5. Bitten by a Snake!

    1-2 Main Idea

    6. BattleBots: Let the Games Begin!

    7. White Noise?

    8. Jokes

    9. Cold Feet

    10. The Life and Works of William Shakespeare

    1-3 Supporting Details

    11. The Panama Canal

    12. Walt Disney: Hollywood Legend

    13. Soccer: The Beautiful Game

    14. Augmented Reality: Better Living Through Technology

    15. The Maasai

    1-4 Sequencing

    16. Camels: The Ships of the Desert

    17. Motown

    18. Obesity

    19. The Brothers Grimm

    20. The Importance of Language

    1-5 Cause & Effect

    21. Beatlemania

    22. JFK

    23. Asia's Gobi Desert

    24. The Mysterious Roma

    25. Disaster on 9/11/2001

    1-6 Clarifying Devices

    26. Jackie Chan: Hong Kong's Superstar

    27. The Huge Pyramids of Giza

    28. The UFO Crash at Roswell, New Mexico

    29. Thanksgiving: A Time for Being Thankful

    30. K2: Climbing the Savage...

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