Reading for Results (10th edition):
Additional Materials

Long experience tells me that no one single reading text ever has quite enough exercises. For that reason, I have included on this web site additional exercises and activities that can be used to follow up on the skills and concepts introduced in Reading for Results (10th edition). Instructors who would like similar materials at a higher or lower level should take a look at the interactive tests at the Publisher's website, where they will find online exercises at three levels: "Getting Down the Basics," "Checking Your Progress," and "Taking the Challenge."

Instructors looking for more basic or more advanced materials should also check the exercises for Reading Keys (basic) and Reading for Thinking (advanced) available on this web site.

Answer keys for the downloadable materials provided below are available in the on-line manual accompanying Reading for Results (10th edition).

Best, Laraine Flemming


Syllabus

3 days/week, 17 weeks (.pdf file)

Chapter 1:
Strategies for Mastering Your Textbooks

Questionnaire 1: Textbook Clues to Meaning
Questionnaire 2: Strategies for Reading
Questionnaire 3: Improving Concentration

Chapter 2:
Word Power

Quiz 1: Using Context Clues
Quiz 2: Using Word Parts
Quiz 3: Vocabulary Test for Chapters 3 and 4
Quiz 4: Vocabulary Test for Chapter 4
Quiz 5: Vocabulary Test for Chapter 5
Quiz 6: Vocabulary Test for Chapter 6

Chapter 3:
Relating the General to the Specific
in Reading and Writing

Quiz 1: Creating General Categories
Quiz 2: General and Specific Sentences
Quiz 3: Getting Specific

Chapter 4:
Discovering Topics, Main Ideas,
and Topic Sentences

Quiz 1: Identifying Topics
Quiz 2: Topics, Topic Sentences, and Paraphrasing
Quiz 3: Paraphrasing the Topic Sentence

Chapter 5:
Inferences and Main Ideas

Quiz 1: Selecting the Better Inference
Quiz 2: Creating the Appropriate Inference
Quiz 3: Drawing Inferences

Chapter 6:
More on the Function of Supporting Details

Quiz: Spotting Irrelevant Details

Chapter 7:
Beyond the Paragraph: Reading
Longer Selections

Quiz 1: Identifying the Main Idea
Quiz 2: Recognizing Thesis Statements

Chapter 8:
Recognizing Patterns of Organization
in Paragraphs

Quiz 1: Predicting Patterns
Quiz 2: Sentence Relationships I
Quiz 3: Sentence Relationships II
Quiz 4: Looking for Patterns

Chapter 9:
Combining Patterns in Paragraphs
and Longer Readings

Quiz 1: Recognizing Patterns
Quiz 2: Patterns and Thesis Statements

Chapter 10:
More on Purpose, Tone, and Bias

Quiz 1: Blending Fact and Opinion
Quiz 2: Recognizing Tone and Purpose
Quiz 3: Looking for Errors in Arguments
Writing Exercise: Expressing Opinions

Appendix:
Reading Pie Charts and Graphs

Quiz 1: Understanding Charts, Graphs, and Tables
Quiz 2: Reading Pie Charts


Last update of this page: January. 21, 2008

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