"The Reader's Edge: Book I" approaches reading holistically while focusing on discrete skills. The text stresses that reading, thinking, and asking questions are all things students do already - not new concepts. This emphasis on reading as a part of the student's world is then paired with strong skills-based instruction. "The Reader's Edge: Book I" is part of McGraw-Hill's new M-series of textbooks that are inexpensive, lightweight (400-450 pages), and designed to reflect the way today's students read and study. The text is designed visually to appeal to students while conveying the key concepts of developmental reading in a way that they can relate to and apply to their daily lives. This book allows you, the instructor, to meet students where they are, so you can take them where they want to go.

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Table of Contents Chapter 1 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 Chapter 2 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 Chapter 3 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 Chapter 4 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 Chapter 5 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 Chapter 6 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 Chapter 7 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 Chapter 8 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 Chapter 9 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 Chapter 10 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 Chapter 11 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 Chapter 12 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