Ready to Read Now
Published on 29. December 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-13-177647-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
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.More details
Persons
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.
Content
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
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