Introduction to the New Strategy: Connect Now
Getting an Impression of the Topic
Your Experiences and Feelings
Your Purpose and the Author's Purpose
Apply the New Strategy: Connect Now
Reading 1: The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently by Thomas Lux
Chapter One: Summary
How Does Strategy 1 Help You to Read from the Inside Out?
How Does the Connect Now Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 2: I Do Not Like to Read'Sam-I-Am! by Rebecca Grabiner
Connect Now Practice Pages
The One-Room Schoolhouse of the Nineteenth Century
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Matthew McConaughey: The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel

Introduction to the New Strategy: Respond
You, the Audience
Time for Responding
Space for Responding
Questions and Comments
Looking for Answers
Connections with Other Ideas
Apply the New Strategy: Respond
Reading 3: Forbidden Reading by Alberto Manguel
Chapter Two: Summary
How Does Strategy 2 Help You to Become a More Engaged Reader?
How Does the Respond Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 4: 'See Spot Run': Teaching My Grandmother to Read by Ellen Tashie Frisina
Respond Practice Pages
Think Big! by Ben Carson, M.D., with Cecil Murphey
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Sarah Jessica Parker: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Introduction the New Strategy: Vital Vocabulary
Tone, or the Author's Voice
Context Clues
The Dictionary
Word Parts
A System for Learning New Words
Apply the New Strategy: Vital Vocabulary
Reading 5: Where English Words Come From by Deborah Silvey
Chapter 3: Summary
How Does Strategy 3 Help You to Become a More Engaged Reader?
How Does the Vital Vocabulary Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 6: Point. Shoot. See. by Jesse Blumberg
Vital Vocabulary Practice Pages
Does Media Violence Desensitize Children to Violence? by Madeline Levine
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Courtney Love: Trading Up by Candace Bushnell

Introduction to the New Strategy: Get an Overview
The Title: The Author's Key to the Subject
Other Important Clues
Skimming
Predicting
Apply the New Strategy: Get an Overview
Reading 7: What Deprived Children Tell Us about Human Nature by James M. Henslin
Chapter 4: Summary
How Does Strategy 4 Help You to Become a More Engaged Reader?
How Does the Operation Overview Strategy Work? Mastery Test
Reading 8: The Good Person by Robert Coles
Get an Overview Practice Pages
Managing Workforce Diversity by Ronald J. Ebert and Ricky W. Griffin
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Madonna: The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin

Introduction to the New Strategy: Ask Questions
Questions for Connecting to the Reading
Questions for Predicting the Overall Point and Main Ideas
Questions That Get Useful Answers
Answers and New Questions
Apply the New Strategy: Ask Questions
Reading 9: How Babies Use Patterns to See by Laura E. Berk
Chapter Five: Summary
How Does Strategy 5 Help You Become a More Engaged Reader?
How Does the Asking Questions Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 10: talking back by bell hooks
Ask Questions Practice Pages
Powder by Tobias Wolff
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Kristin Cavallari: Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of An Anti-Hero by Jeff Pearlman

Introduction to the New Strategy: Find and Mark Main Ideas
Marking Ideas
Overall Point and Main Topics in a Reading
Main Ideas in Paragraphs
Supporting Ideas
Adjust your Marking
Apply the New Strategy: Find and Mark Main Ideas
Reading 11: How the Self-Concept Develops by Steven A. Beebe, Susan J. Beebe, and Diana K. Ivy
Sample Marking: How the Self-Concept Develops
Chapter 6: Summary
How Does Strategy 6 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader?
How Does the Find and Mark Main Ideas Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 12: School Is Bad for Children by John Holt
Sample Marking: School Is Bad for Children
Find Main Ideas Practice Pages
Learning the River by Mark Twain
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Kirsten Dunst: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan

Introduction to the New Strategy: Patterns of Thought
Common Patterns
Patterns and the Overall Point
Patterns and Main Ideas
Signal Words and Phrases
Apply the New Strategy: Patterns of Thought
Reading 13: Optimism: The Great Motivator by Daniel Goleman
Chapter 7: Summary
How Does Strategy 7 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader?
How Does the Look for Patterns of Thought Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 14: How Conscious Is Thought? by Carole Wade and Carol Tavris
Patterns of Thought Practice Pages
Traveling by Grace Paley
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Jason Lee: Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Introduction to the New Strategy: Map Main Ideas
Placing the Overall Point, the Main Ideas, and the Supporting Ideas
Apply the New Strategy: Map Main Ideas
Reading 15: Why People Don't Help in a Crisis by John M. Darley and Bibb Latané
Sample Informal Outline: 'Why People Don't Help in a Crisis'
Chapter 8: Summary
How Does Strategy 8 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader?
How Does the Map Main Ideas Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 16: Mother Tongue by Amy Tan
Map Main Ideas Practice Pages
Imprinting: A Form of Learning by Robert Wallace
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Shia LaBeouf: The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan and Barbara Pease

Introduction to the New Strategy: Make Inferences
Inferences and Implied Ideas
Logical Connections
Details
Word Choice
Your Own Assumptions
Apply the New Strategy: Make Inferences
Reading 17: A Letter to My Teacher by Kate Boyes
Chapter 9: Summary
How Does Strategy 9 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader?
How Does the Make Inferences Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 18: Why Men Don't Last: Self-Destruction as a Way of Life by Natalie Angier
Make Inferences Practice Pages
The Gorilla's Embrace by Barbara Smuts
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Cassandra Wilson: Manuals on PHP

Introduction to the New Strategy: Find Meaning in Metaphors
Metaphorical Expressions
Interpreting Metaphors
Apply the New Strategy: Find Meaning in Metaphors
Reading 19: Terror Unlimited by Tim Cahill
Chapter 10: Summary
How Does Strategy 10 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader?
How Does the Find Meaning in Metaphors Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 20: Buckle Up. And Behave. by William Ecenbarger
Find Meaning in Metaphors Practice Pages
Victor by Julia Alvarez
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Casey Affleck: Short stories, including 'Incident at Owl Creek' by Ambrose Bierce

Introduction to the New Strategy: Determine the Writer's Perspective
Styles of Writing
The Intended Audience
Perspective
Tone and Bias
Apply the New Strategy: Determine the Writer's Perspective
Reading 21: A Global Green Deal by Mark Hertsgaard
Chapter 11: Summary
How Does Strategy 11 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader?
How Does the Determine the Writer's Perspective Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 22: Infernal Paradise by Barbara Kingsolver
The Writer's Perspective Practice Pages
Pitching Messages by John Vivian
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Kenny Melman, Herb of cabaret duo Kiki and Herb: Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture by Jon Savage

Introduction to the New Strategy: Write a Summary
Paraphrasing
Summarizing the Overall Point and Main Ideas
Apply the New Strategy: Write a Summary
Reading 23: Police and the Community by
George F. Cole and Christopher E. Smith
Chapter 12: Summary
How Does Strategy 12 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader?
How Does the Write a Summary Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 24: Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments by Robert L Heilbroner
Write a Summary Practice Pages
The Argument Culture by Deborah Tannen
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Chris Rock: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Introduction to the New Strategy: Analyze the Information
Fact and Opinion
Reliable Information
Testing the Support
Apply the New Strategy: Analyze the Information
Reading 25: Four for a Quarter by Kenneth R. Fletcher
Chapter 13: Summary
How Does Strategy 13 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader?
How Does the Analyze the Information Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 26: Buy This 24-Year-Old and Get All His Friends Absolutely Free by Jean Kilbourne
Analyze the Information Practice Pages
Memo from Coach by Christopher Buckley
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Jodi Picoult: The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman

Introduction to the New Strategy: Make an Evaluation
Thinking Objectively
Thinking Subjectively
Apply the New Strategy: Make an Evaluation
Reading 27: Don't Further Empower Cliques by Bernard Lefkowitz
Chapter 14: Summary
How Does Strategy 14 Help You to Be an Engaged Reader?
How Does the Make an Evaluation Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 28: Can Gossip Be Good? By Frank T. McAndrew
Make an Evaluation Practice Pages
The Formation of Modern American Mass Culture by James Kirby Martin, Randy Roberts, Steven Mintz, Linda O. McMurry, James H. Jones
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? LeVar Burton: The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck, M.D.