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Chesla, Elizabeth L. Read better, remember more / Elizabeth Chesla 1st ed. p. cm. (The basics made easy) Includes index. ISBN 1-57685-060-9 1. Reading Comprehension 2. Reading (Adult education) I. Title. II. Series. LB1050.45.C443 1997 428.4'3 dc21 97-24256 CIP
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CONTENTS
Introduction: How to Use This Book
1
Section 1: Setting Yourself Up for Reading Success
5
1 Pre-Reading Strategies
7
2 Getting the Facts
15
3 Using the Dictionary
23
4 Determining Meaning from Context
33
5 Section 1 Review
41
Section 2: Gettingand Rememberingthe Gist of It
47
6 Finding the Main Idea
49
7 Finding Supporting Ideas
57
8 Highlighting, Underlining, and Glossing
67
9 Taking Notes and Outlining
77
10 Section 2 Review
85
Section 3: Improving Your Reading IQ
93
11 Determining Organization
95
12 Distinguishing Fact from Opinion
107
13 Recording Questions and Reactions
115
14 Visualizing to Remember
123
15 Section 3 Review
133
Section 4: Reader, Detective, Writer
141
16 Word Choice and Point of View
143
17 Determining Tone
153
18 Finding an Implied Main Idea
159
19 Putting It in Your Own Words
165
20 Final Review
175
Appendix: Additional Resources
183
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INTRODUCTION HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
This book provides 20 practical chapters designed to help you better remember what you read. Because you can't remember what you don't understand, this book also includes a number of chapters on important reading comprehension strategies. Improving your reading comprehension will help you improve your overall reading ability and effectiveness.
Each chapter focuses on a single reading skill so that you can complete it in just 20 minutes a day. Practice exercises allow you to put the classroom-tested strategies you learn into immediate practice. By reading a chapter a day, Monday through Friday, and doing all the exercises
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carefully, you should dramatically improve how much you understand and remember of what you read by the end of one month of study.
Although each chapter is an effective skill builder on its own, it's important that you proceed through this book in order, from Chapter 1 through Chapter 20. Each chapter builds on the skills and ideas discussed in previous chapters. If you don't have a thorough understanding of the concepts in Chapter 4, for example, you won't get the full benefit of Chapters 520. Please be sure you thoroughly understand each chapter before moving on to the next one.
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