Essential Reading Skills: Preparation for High School Equivalency Tests

Essential Reading Skills: Preparation for High School Equivalency Tests teaches students how to identify and break down the key parts of any text in order to better understand the author's meaning and purpose. Lessons focus on developing the literacy skills required for college and career-level reading.

Lessons connect new ideas to previously known concepts. Students learn to approach reading tasks efficiently by employing goal-driven reading strategies. Practice questions allow students to put their strategies to the test before checking their work.

Essential Reading Skills: Preparation for High School Equivalency Tests, which is aligned to Common Core and College and Career Readiness Standards, focuses on developing vocabulary skills as well as understanding of central themes, arguments, literary conventions, story structure, and point of view. Texts in science and social studies are presented alongside fiction and nonfiction.

Use the 36 complete lessons to supplement classroom instruction or as a self-study resource. The 380-page book is jam-packed with graphic organizers and helpful visual reminders to help students improve their reading comprehension and prepare for the 2014 GED® test, TASC TestTM, or HiSET® exam.

Subjects covered in this book:

• Reading Strategically: DARE Process, Questioning, Skimming and Scanning texts, Note-Taking and Graphic Organizers, Vocabulary, Inferences and Central Ideas
• Nonfiction Texts: Text Structure and Features, Visual Elements, Author's Purpose, Reading in Science and Social Studies, Tone, Arguments, Claims, Evidence and Fallacies, Persuasive Appeals
• Fiction Texts: Theme and Author's Purpose, Word Choice, Figurative Language Characters, Story Structure and Conflict, Setting, Tone, Genre, and Style, Point of View

The important features:

• 36 complete lessons to supplement classroom instruction or serve as a self-study guide
• Contains graphic organizers and helpful visual reminders to help students improve their reading comprehension.
• Learn practical strategies for various text genres.
• Strategic reading, nonfiction texts, and fiction texts are all covered.

Author: Teresa Perrin

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1940532019/