Ready to Read Now / Edition 1

by Karen Blanchard, Christine Root

Overview

Features

• Sharpen Your Reading Skills provides explicit instruction as well as extensive practice and recycling.
• Be an Active Reader features high-interest readings that allow students to apply their skills.
• As You Read activities, including completion of charts, graphs, and outlines, encourage reading with a purpose.
• Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills includes word-attack skills ranging from Using a Dictionary to Using Context Clues.
• Express Your Ideas and Explore the Web extend and enrich the reading experience.
• Read Faster helps build reading fluency and accuracy.
• Practice with word parts, synonyms and antonyms, idioms, compound words, and word maps.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780131776470
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	07/22/2004
Series:	Ready to Read (Pearson) Ser.
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	8.05(w) x 9.95(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Karen Blanchard and Christine Root each have taught English language instruction at the university level for more than twenty years. Karen has an M.S.Ed in TESOL from the University of Pennsylvania, and Christine has an M.Ed in English Education from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. They began their textbook collaboration with the Ready to Write series while they were lecturers at the University of Pennsylvania. They have since written many reading and writing skills books and continue to enjoy working together to create English language textbooks for students around the world.

Table of Contents

Scope and Sequence

Chapter 1 GET THE PICTURE: IDENTIFYING TOPICS AND MAIN IDEAS

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Identifying Topics, Identifying Main Ideas

Be an Active Reader: It Happened by Accident

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Using a Dictionary–Guidewords

Chapter 2 TAKE A CLOSER LOOK: IDENTIFYING SUPPORTING DETAILS

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Identifying Supporting Details

Be an Active Reader: Unusual Fads of the 1920s

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Using a Dictionary–Parts of Speech

Chapter 3 MAKE GUESSES: PREVIEWING AND PREDICTING

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Previewing and Predicting

Be an Active Reader: Funny Business

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Word Parts–Prefixes

Chapter 4 READ QUICKLY: SKIMMING AND SCANNING

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Skimming and Scanning

Be an Active Reader: Bear Necessities

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Synonyms and Antonyms

Chapter 5 FIGURE IT OUT: USING CONTEXT CLUES

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Using Context Clues to Guess Meaning

Be an Active Reader: Idioms and Proverbs

Chapter 6 PUT THINGS IN ORDER: RECOGNIZING SEQUENCE

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Recognizing Sequence

Be an Active Reader: The Story of the Two Brothers

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Word Parts–Suffixes

Chapter 7 BELIEVE IT OR NOT: FACTS VS. OPINION

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Distinguishing Facts from Opinions

Be an Active Reader: The Godfather: A Movie Classic

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Using Word Maps

Chapter 8 READ BETWEEN THE LINES: MAKING INFERENCES

Sharpen Your Reading Skills: Making Inferences

Be an Active Reader: Swimming Buddies

Sharpen Your Vocabulary Skills: Compound Words

BECOME A BETTER READER

Answer Key

Keep Track of Your Progress

Editorial Reviews

Click here to read a review of Get Ready to Read, Ready to Read Now, and Ready to Read More. The review is written by Deirdre Garr, an adjunct faculty member at Camden County College, Blackwood, NJ. The review is in PDF format.

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