100 Articles for Developing Your Reading Skills

Why do you need this book?

Target Reading Level 1 is the first volume of a series books concentrating on training reading skills. The book is comprised of 100 articles that provide attractive reading material on different themes and various topics, including Art & Literature, Business, Culture, Entertainment, Geography, Health, History, People, Sports, and Technology.

Each article is designed with six essential questions to help the readers understand the article. These questions are within the framework of the following categories: main idea, subject matter, supporting details, inference, vocabulary/phrases, and clarifying devices. Through repeated practice with the six categories of questions, readers will be engaged and will develop an inquiring attitude towards reading. They will gradually gain the ability to catch important information from an article. Furthermore, this thinking-while-reading strategy will prepare the readers for a higher comprehension level.

How to use this book?

No one can attain a high reading level in one step. To master reading skills, readers should follow the reading plan suggested in the book. The readers will read, enjoy, and make steady progress through the 100 articles within 16 weeks.

After finishing this reading project, the readers will expand their vocabulary, learn about the various topics, gain confidence in using English, and enjoy the pictures that enhance the articles.

Contents

1. The Civil Rights Movement in the USA

2. The EQ

3. Animal Proverbs

4. Who Stole My Money?

5. Steve Jobs

6. Twilight

7. Internet gossip websites

8. Hachiko

9. The Challenger Tragedy

10. Postmodern Architecture

11. Self generated energy

12. Junk Food and Depression

13. Animal Rights, Yesterday and Today

14. K2

15. Class and Accent

16. Ichiro Suzuki

17. The Large Hadron Collider

18. Fair Trade Businesses

19. Should You Talk to Your Plants?

20. Reality TV

21. Doctor Bronner's Soaps

22. Plastic Surgery

23. Calvin and Hobbes

24. Free Running

25. False Friends

26. Stephen Hawking and The Universe

27. History's Largest Empires

28. The Pygmalion Effect

29. The Robot Evolution

30. Reusing versus Recycling

31. One Mango Tree

32. Frida Kahlo's Paintings and Psychology

33. The Nazca Lines of Peru

34. Twittering the News

35. Hold on to Your Pocket Money

36. Asperger's Syndrome

37. Cyber-bullying

38. Sunscreen

39. The Dancing Plants of Udon Thani

40. Bill Gates after Microsoft

41. American Folk Art Traditions

42. Coptic Churches in Egypt

43. NEET

44. What are Carbon Offsets?

45. Parasites

46. Word Lens

47. The World's Oldest Sports

48. Victorian Art

49. Nelson Mandela

50. What is the Kyoto Protocol?

51. Are You Addicted to the Internet?

52. The Northern Lights

53. Unusual Taboos

54. Science Fiction

55. What does the Internet have to say about you

56. Bats and Bees are Dying

57. Music and Mood

58. Charlie Chaplin, a Serious Man

59. Body Language Across Cultures

60. Greek Tragedy and the Theater of Dionysus

61. Easter Island

62. Skateboarding

63. Winter Blues

64. The History of YouTube

65. The Terracotta Army

66. Paul Gauguin

67. The Leaning Tower of Pisa

68. Hikikomori

69. Magic Realism

70. The Hijab

71. Desertification

72. Obesity is Growing

73. The Wild Amazon

74. Barack Obama

75. Whales' Silent Tears

76. Prehistoric Art

77. Rock Climbing

78. The Oldest Trees in the World

79. Headphones and Hearing

80. Formerly Taboo Entertainment

81. How Were Dogs Domesticated?

82. Wind Power

83. Johann Sebastian Bach

84. The Plain...