Success With Reading 3

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 Main Idea

    1. I Feel Really Small: The California Redwoods

    2. The Conch Shell

    3. The Cá»§ Chi Tunnels

    4. University of Oxford

    5. Stung by a Box Jellyfish!

    1-2 Supporting Details

    6. High Speed Fun: Superbikes

    7. The Manga-Anime Craze

    8. April Fools' Day!

    9. The Mediterranean Diet

    10. The Working Poor in the United States: John's Story

    1-3 Fact or Opinion

    11. Pangaea

    12. Bethany Hamilton

    13. Australian Aboriginals

    14. Healing Plants

    15. The Sport of Kitesurfing

    1-4 Author's Purpose and Tone

    16. Submarines

    17. Malala Yousafzai

    18. Anorexia Nervosa

    19. Sheep-Eating Plant

    20. Sign Language

    1-5 Clarifying Devices

    21. Funds

    22. Amazon Rain Forest

    23. Fantasy Movies

    24. The Tale of King Arthur

    25. Thaipusam─A Festival in Singapore

    1-6 Making Inferences

    26. Using Smartphones at Restaurants

    27. The Inca of South America

    28. Recycling

    29. Halloween: Trick or Treat!

    30. World's Deepest Dives

    1-7 Cause and...

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