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Junior Skill Builders

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Published in the United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Junior skill builders : reading in 15 minutes a day.

p. cm.

ISBN: 978-1-57685-661-1

1. Reading (Middle school) 2. Reading (Secondary) 3. English

language—Grammar—Study and teaching (Middle school) 4. English

language—Grammar—Study and teaching (Secondary) I. LearningExpress

(Organization) II. Title: Reading in 15 minutes a day.

LB1632.J86 2008

428.4071'2—dc22

2008020199

Printed in the United States of America

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C O N T E N T S

Introduction

Pretest

SECTION 1: BUILD YOUR VOCABULARY

Lesson 1: Multiple-Meaning Words

• Don’t be fooled by words with more than one meaning

Lesson 2: Words That Sound or Look Alike

• The difference between a homophone and a homograph

Lesson 3: Synonyms and Antonyms

• Using words that mean the same or mean the opposite

Lesson 4: Preﬁxes and Sufﬁxes

• Get clues about a word’s meaning from its parts

Lesson 5: Terminology and Jargon

• Don’t be thrown by technical terms and

subject-matter vocabulary

Lesson 6: Context Clues

• Find the meaning of unknown words from hints in the text

Lesson 7: Denotation and Connotation

• Know what a word implies as well as what it really means

iv contents

SECTION 2: VARIETY IN READING

Lesson 8: Genre: Fiction or Nonﬁction?

• How do you know if something’s ﬁction or not?

Lesson 9: Author’s Purpose

• Why did the author write this selection anyway?

Lesson 10: Tone and Style

• How does what authors say and how they say it make

you feel?

Lesson 11: Text Features

101

• What information can you get from headings, subheads,

and captions?

Lesson 12: Graphics

109

• What information can you get from graphs, maps, and

other visuals?

SECTION 3: ORGANIZATION OF TEXT

117

Lesson 13: Main Idea and Supporting Details

119

• What’s a selection all about? Are there enough facts to back

that idea?

Lesson 14: Chronological Order

127

• Follow things as they happen, from beginning to end

Lesson 15: Cause and Effect

135

• What makes something happen? What effect can one thing

have on another?

Lesson 16: Compare and Contrast

143

• How are people, places, and events alike? How are

they different?

Lesson 17: Fact and Opinion

151

• What can the author prove to be true? What are simply his or

her personal beliefs?

Lesson 18: Question and Answer

159

• The author asks you a question, and then you ﬁnd the answer

Lesson 19: Problem and Solution

167

• The author states what’s wrong and suggests how to ﬁx it

contents

Lesson 20: Making Inferences

175

• Learn to make good guesses so you can predict what’ll

happen next

Lesson 21: Drawing Conclusions

183

• Weigh all the evidence, and then make a decision

Lesson 22: Summarizing

191

• Retell only the most important parts of what you read

SECTION 4: ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE: THE FACTS

199

ABOUT FICTION

Lesson 23: Character and Setting

201

• Who’s the story about?

• Where does the story take place?

Lesson 24: Plot: Conﬂict and Resolution

209

• Follow a story’s ups and downs on the path of happily

ever after

Lesson 25: Point of View

217

• Who’s telling this story anyway?

Lesson 26: Theme

225

• What’s the message or lesson the author wants me to learn?

Lesson 27: Imagery

233

• Use your senses to get “into” the story

Lesson 28: Flashback and Foreshadowing

243

• Thinking about the past

• Warning readers about what might happen in the future

Lesson 29: Figurative Language: Idiom, Personiﬁcation, Hyperbole

251

• Words don’t always mean what they say

• Objects can be characters, too

• Making things bigger than life

Lesson 30: Figurative Language: Similes and Metaphors

259

• Compare things that are different, in very interesting ways

Posttest

267

Glossary

280

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