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USING THE DICTIONARY 39 IN SHORT To understand and remember what you read, you need to know what each word means. Always circle and look up words you don’t know as soon as you come across them. Choose the meaning that matches the word’s part of speech. Say new words out loud and put them on a vocab- ulary list. Use these new words in your own sentences to help seal their meanings in your memory. Skill Building Until Next Time 1. Add words to your vocabulary list all week. See if you can add at least oneword a day. 2. Use your new vocabulary words in your conversations, in letters, or in other things you write this week. The more you use them, the better you’ll remember them. [...]... Question 3 Chapter 2 Question 4 Chapter 2 Question 5 Chapter 2 Question 6 Chapter 2 Question 7 Chapter 2 Question 8 Chapter 3 Question 9 Chapter 3 Question 10 Chapter 3 51 52 READ BETTER, REMEMBER MORE P RACTICE 2 Now it’s time to use all of the strategies you learned in Section 1 at once Before you read the whole passage below, apply pre-reading techniques to “warm up” for the text Then, answer the pre-reading... Similarly, when you read, and when you want to remember what you read, you need to employ a number of different strategies at the same time Putting together the strategies that you’ve learned so far will take your reading skills to the next level 49 50 READ BETTER, REMEMBER MORE IN BRIEF These are the strategies you’ve learned in the first four chapters of this book: • Chapter 1: Pre-Reading Strategies... don’t bend your knees, all the strain will be on your lower back”? 53 54 READ BETTER, REMEMBER MORE Answers 1 b The passage is written by an expert 2 The main topics are “Why back injuries are so common” and “How to prevent back injury.” You should expect to learn something about the key words vertebrae, discs, muscles, and ligaments 3 Vertebrae are the small bones in your back There are 24 of them 4... looking for the main idea 57 58 READ BETTER, REMEMBER MORE Thus, you can have ten different things to read about home computers, but each of these texts can be as different as New York City is from Wakita, Kansas, because they can all have completely different main ideas HOW THE MAIN IDEA WORKS Let’s take a look at a sample paragraph to see exactly how the main idea works Read the passage below carefully... expected to be at about 13 million—an increase of nearly 4 million jobs P RACTICE 1 In each group of sentences below, which sentence is general enough to be the main idea? Group A 1 Hundreds of thousands of people were killed during the decades of fighting 2 The African country of Angola is still feeling the effects of its long and bloody civil war 59 60 READ BETTER, REMEMBER MORE 3 The civil war, which... overtime Company policy states that employees must have permission to work more than 10 hours of overtime 5 We should get paid more for overtime 6 Fewer employees working more overtime hours would cost more than more employees working fewer overtime hours Answers Sentences 2, 5, and 6 are assertions that require support Sentences 1, 3, and 4, on the other hand, are simple statements of fact that do not... importance of “warming up” for reading tasks by breaking the text into manageable chunks and reading the pre-text You also discovered the value of skimming ahead, jumping back, and reading aloud • Chapter 2: Getting the Facts You practiced asking and answering the who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to find and remember the basic facts in a passage • Chapter 3: Using the Dictionary You learned... to “warm up” for the text Then, answer the pre-reading questions below Don’t read the whole passage yet, and don’t use a dictionary Once you’ve answered the pre-reading questions, then read the entire passage Answer the questions that follow the passage on a separate sheet of paper Pre-Reading Questions 1 What you’re about to read is written by a a student b an expert c a patient 2 What main topics will... junior high school, I wanted to be a doctor When I was in high school, I wanted to be a teacher Today, I’m 35 and I’m a firefighter I had a lot of career goals What’s a Topic Sentence? A sentence in a paragraph that clearly expresses a writer’s main idea is called a topic sentence 62 READ BETTER, REMEMBER MORE when I was growing up, but none of them correspond to what I actually turned out to be Notice how... notes and outline your reading material CHAPTER Finding and understanding the main idea of a text is an essential reading skill This chapter will show you how to distinguish the main idea from its support I 6 FINDING THE MAIN IDEA magine that one of your coworkers has just handed you something to read “What’s it about?” you ask You’d like to know what to expect when you sit down to read But your question . 2 Question 3 Chapter 2 Question 4 Chapter 2 Question 5 Chapter 2 Question 6 Chapter 2 Question 7 Chapter 2 Question 8 Chapter 3 Question 9 Chapter 3 Question 10 Chapter 3 READ BETTER, REMEMBER MORE 52 P RACTICE. take your reading skills to the next level. READ BETTER, REMEMBER MORE 50 IN BRIEF These are the strategies you’ve learned in the first four chapters of this book: • Chapter 1: Pre-Reading Strategies an action: how the system has been behaving. If you looked carefully at the READ BETTER, REMEMBER MORE 44 suffix table in Chapter 3, you might have noticed the clue that erratically is an adverb—it ends