Success With Reading 2

ebook Thinking About Reading

By Zachary Fillingham

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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, sports, 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, Author's Purpose and Tone, 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. Incredible India

    2. Braille

    3. Inflation

    4. When Lightning Strikes

    5. How Many Stars Are There?

    1-2 Main Idea

    6. Magicians

    7. Running Marathons

    8. The Word "Hello"

    9. The World's Most Dangerous Creature

    10. Lost in the Sahara Desert

    1-3 Supporting Details

    11. The Printing Press

    12. Owls

    13. Thomas Edison's Inventions

    14. How Safe Is Air Travel?

    15. Jazz Music

    1-4 Author's Purpose and Tone

    16. Garfield the Cartoon Cat

    17. World War I

    18. The World's Fastest Train

    19. Tasmania

    20. The Grand Canyon

    1-5 Cause and Effect

    21. When Cats Met Humans

    22. The Nile River

    23. The Power of Positive Thinking

    24. Orangutans

    25. Margaret Thatcher

    1-6 Clarifying Devices

    26. Norse Mythology

    27. Swaziland

    28. Honey Badger

    29. Giacomo Puccini

    30. The Origin of Number

    1-7 Making Inferences

    31. Julius Caesar

    32. The Bushmen of the Kalahari

    33. The Satellite Business

    34. Old Wives'...

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