Connect Now
Strategy 1: Connect Now
Introduction to the New Strategy: Connect Now
The Topic and the Title
Your Experience and Feelings
Your Purpose and the Author's Purpose
Apply the New Strategy: Connect Now
Reading 1: Poppa and the Spruce Tree: A Lesson from My Father by Mario Cuomo
Chapter 1: Summary
How Does Strategy 1 Help You Use Your Reader's Voice to Be an Active Reader?
How Does the Connect Now Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 2: A Role Model of Resiliency: Bouncing Back from Disaster by Tom Wanamaker
Connect Now Practice Pages
Benjamin Banneker: Man of Many Talents
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Alec Baldwin: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Respond
Strategy 2: Respond
Introduction to the New Strategy: Respond
You, the audience
Time for Responding
Space for Responding
Apply the New Strategy: Respond
Reading 3: The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl by Elizabeth Wong
Chapter 2: Summary
How Does Strategy 2 Help You Use Your Reader's Voice to Be an Active Reader?
How Does the Respond Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 4: Self-Esteem by Joseph A. DeVito
Respond Practice Pages
Educating Safe Drivers
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Catherine Zeta-Jones: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Vital Vocabulary: Context Clues--delete 'vital vocabulary'?
Strategy 3: Context Clues
Introduction to the New Strategy: Context Clues
Tone, or the Author's Voice
Logic Clues
Example Clues
Contrast Clues
Definition Clues
Using Context Clues
Apply the New Strategy: Using Context Clues
Reading 5: Sounds of Home: An 8,690-Mile Echo by Sara Rimer
Chapter 3: Summary
How Does Strategy 3 Help You Become a More Active Reader?
How Does the Context Clues Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 6: Chia Pet by Owen Edwards
Vital Vocabulary: Context Clues Practice Pages' delete 'vital vocabulary'?
Tone
Context Clues: Logic and Examples
Context Clues: Contrast and Definition
Context Clues: Logic, Examples, Contrast and Definition
Learning to Write by Russell Baker
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Nicole Kidman: The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Vital Vocabulary: The Right Definition 'Delete 'Vital Vocabulary:'?
Strategy 4: The Right Definition
Introduction to the New Strategy: The Right Definition
Word Parts
The Dictionary
Word Parts and the Dictionary
Denotation and Connotation
Apply the New Strategy: The Right Definition
Reading 7: Flappers to Rappers: American Youth Slang by Tom Dalzell
Chapter 4: Summary
How Does Strategy 4 Help You Become a More Active Reader?
How Does The Right Definition Strategy Work?
Mastery Test vReading 8: When Generations Collide by Lynne Lancaster and David Stillman
Vital Vocabulary: The Right Definition Practice Pages'
Delete 'Vital Vocabulary:'?
Using Word Parts
Using the Dictionary
Pandora's Box: Hope and the Power of Positive Thinking by Daniel Goleman
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Angelina Jolie: Vlad the Impaler: In Search of the Real Dracula by M. J. Trow

Operation Overview
Strategy 5: Operation Overview
Introduction to the Strategy: Operation Overview
Title: The Author's Key to the Topic
Predicting
Reading for Answers
Apply the New Strategy: Operation Overview
Reading 9: Movie Censorship: A Brief History by John Vivian
Chapter 5: Summary
How Does Strategy 5 Help You to Know Where You're Going?
How Does the Operation Overview Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 10: The Day Athletics Won Out over Politics by Ron Fimrite
Operation Overview Practice Pages
The Fifties: Teenagers, Rebellion, and the Movies But Weight! by Robert A. Wallace
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Natalie Portman: The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

Find Topics and Main Ideas
Strategy 6: Find Topics and Main Ideas
Introduction to the New Strategy: Find Topics and Main Ideas
The Topic of a Paragraph
Topics and Main Ideas
Unstated Main Ideas
Main Ideas in a Longer Reading
Headings and Main Ideas
Readings without Headings
Apply the New Strategy: Find Topics and Main Ideas
Reading 11: Meet Your iBrain by Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan
Chapter 6: Summary
How Does Strategy 6 Help You Discover What the Author Says?
How Does Finding Topics and Main Ideas Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 12: The Influence of Sports on Male Identity by James M. Henslin
Find Topics and Main Ideas Practice Pages
'Teaching Sex Roles' by Janet Gonzalez-Mena and Janet Emerita
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Will Smith: The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo

Find the Support
Strategy 7: Find the Support
Introduction to the New Strategy: Find the Support
Types of Supporting Details
Supporting Details in Paragraphs
General and Specific Levels of Support in a Longer Reading
Apply the Apply the New Strategy: Find the Support
Reading 13: How Men and Women Communicate in Relationships by Rebecca J. Donatelle
Chapter 7: Summary
How does Strategy 7 Help You Become a More Active Reader?
How Does the Find the Support Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 14: The Men We Carry in Our Minds by Scott Russell Sanders
Find the Support Practice Pages
New Advertising Hits Consumers Everywhere by Karen Talaski
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Kate Winslet: Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

Patterns of Thought
Strategy 8: Patterns of Thought
Introduction to the New Strategy: Look for Patterns of Thought Delete 'Look for'?
Identifying Common Patterns
Transitions
Patterns and Main Ideas in Longer Readings
Apply the New Strategy: Patterns of Thought
Reading 15: When Not Asking for Directions Is Dangerous to Your Health by Deborah Tannen
Chapter 8: Summary
How Does Strategy 8 Help You to Be an Active Reader?
How Does the Patterns of Thought Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 16: Wealth, Poverty, and Frugality by Amy Dacyczn
Patterns of Thought Practice Pages
Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Russell Crowe: Anything by author Studs Terkel

Write to Remember
Strategy 9: Write to Remember
Introduction to the New Strategy: Write to Remember
Mapping Main Ideas: A Rough Outline
Reading 17: The Effects of Work on Motivation by Carole Wade and Carol Tavris
Summarizing
Chapter 9: Summary
How Does Strategy 9 Help You Become a More Active Reader?
How Does the Write to Remember Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 18: The Brain of the Civil Rights Movement by Adam Cohen
Write to Remember Practice Pages
Satisfaction Not Guaranteed, But You Can Find Meaning in Your Work by Sondra Farrell Bazrod
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Miley Cyrus: Don't Die, My Love by Lurlene McDaniel

Make Inferences
Strategy 10: Make Inferences
Introduction to the New Strategy: Make Inferences
Inferences and Implied Ideas
Logical Connections
Word Choice
Tone
Metaphors
Apply the New Strategy: Make Inferences
Reading 19: Serving in Florida by Barbara Ehrenreich
Chapter 10: Summary
How Does Strategy 10 Help You Become a More Active Reader?
How Does the Make Inferences Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 20: Jamaal M. Watson: A Year with John Taylor Gatto --Change to A Year with John Taylor Gatto
Make Inferences Practice Pages
One Airline's Magic: How Does Southwest Soar? by Sally B. Donnelly
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Mel Gibson: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Analyze the Information
Strategy 11: Analyze the Information
Introduction to the New Strategy: Analyze the Information
The Writer's Purpose and the Style of Writing
The Writer's Audience and Perspective
Facts and Opinions
The Writer's Biases
Apply the New Strategy: Analyze the Information
Reading 21: Lost Jobs, Ragged Safety Net by Robert Reich
Chapter 11: Summary
How Does Strategy 11 Help You Become a More Active Reader?
How Does the Analyzing the Information Strategy Work?
Mastery Test
Reading 22: The Conditions of Work by James Kirby Martin, Randy Roberts, Steven Mintz, Linda O. McMurry, and James H. Jones
Analyze the Information Practice Pages
The Bridge by Daniel Orozco
Culture Wire
What Are They Reading? Mira Sorvino: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Be a Successful Student
Strategy 12: Be a Successful Student
Introduction to the New Strategy: Be a Successful Student
Student Success Skills
Study Skills: Study Better and Improve your Memory Techniques
Test Preparation and Test-Taking Skills: Prepare Yourself for Tests, and Test Better
Course Assessment Skills: Plan Ahead for Your Future