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Reading Objectives
Reading One
Book 1 - Product Labels
  • Locate information on food, drug, and household product labels.
  • Comprehend information from product labels and print materials about them.
  • Apply information from product labels and charts to specific situations.
Book 2 - Housing
  • Locate information in print materials associated with housing.
  • Comprehend information in print materials associated with housing.
  • Apply information from these kinds of materials to specific situations.
Book 3 - Services in the Community
  • Interpret words from print materials about services for individuals and families.
  • Interpret statements used in these kinds of materials.
  • Apply information from these kinds of materials to specific situations.
Book 4 - Looking for Work
  • Interpret want ads and other sources of information about jobs.
  • Infer information from want ads, job descriptions, and other job search materials.
  • Interpret words and statements from application forms, resumes, etc.
Book 5 - Food and Home
  • Find basic information embedded in instructions for using products, preparing foods, and completing household projects.
  • Interpret statements in instructions about sequence and choices.
  • Apply information from a set of instructions to a specific situation.
Book 6 - Personal Health
  • Recognize the meaning of key terms used to discuss health and medical issues.
  • Interpret statements about health in terms of causes, effects, and contributing factors.
  • Apply information about health to specific situations.
Book 7 - Advertising
  • Interpret information in print ads and product information.
  • Locate and identify information in print warranties, guarantees, and service contracts.
  • Interpret information from these kinds of print materials.
Book 8 - Home Safety
  • Draw inferences about home security from brief news accounts.
  • Determine the main point of a short passage about factors contributing to home security.
  • Draw inferences from passages about factors contributing to home safety.
Book 9 - Travel
  • Locate and pull information from mileage charts, bus schedules, local maps, and materials with basic travel information.
  • Locate and pull information from building guides, road maps, and street maps.
  • Apply information from any of these materials to specific situations.
Book 10 - Reference Materials and Resources
  • Locate information in dictionaries and encyclopedias.
  • Locate information in reference systems within books.
  • Find information about sources from library catalogs and guides to periodicals.
Book 11 - Consumer Credit
  • Recognize stated or implied relationships in print materials about consumer credit.
  • Find and interpret information from disclosure charts, monthly statements, and other credit-related documents.
  • Apply information from credit documents to specific situations.
Book 12 - Important Forms
  • Locate the place on a form for specific information and recognize when specific information is not required.
  • Understand words, terms, or statements on a form from the context.
  • Interpret information from a completed form.
Book 13 - Human Behavior
  • Interpret passages from articles that generalize about human behavior.
  • Interpret statements about remedies or suggestions from articles about human behavior.
  • Compare information and generalize from case studies of human behavior.
Book 14 - Common Accidents
  • Interpret cause and effect relationships in articles about common accidents.
  • Draw or recognize inferences concerning prevention.
  • Apply information about accident prevention and remedies to specific situations.
Book 15 - Personal Safety
  • Recognize the main idea in a passage about personal safety.
  • Recognize the main idea in charts, graphs, and paragraphs with statistics about personal safety.
  • Interpret relevant or supporting details from passages, charts, and graphs on personal safety.
Book 16 - Pursuing your Interests
  • Define difficult or unfamiliar words in paragraphs from definitions, examples, or contrasting statements.
  • Recognize points of comparison and contrast in descriptions of categories of people or things.
  • Define difficult or unfamiliar words from the larger context of a passage.
Book 17 - Voices in Print
  • Recognize the point of view and the voices within a newspaper article.
  • Rephrase the "problem" and the "solution" that are the main points of an opinion piece.
  • Restate the support an author provides for his/her main point in an opinion piece.
Book 18 - Anecdotes, Fables, and Examples
  • Draw inferences from the details within an anecdote, fable, or extended example.
  • Identify details that support an interpretation of an anecdote, fable, or short article.
  • Draw inferences from an anecdote, fable, or short article taken as a whole.
Book 19 - News
  • Distinguish statements of facts from statements of opinions in articles that quote several sources.
  • Interpret a statement about cause, effect, or consequences.
  • Identify the main point of an argument in a short article and identify supporting points.
Book 20 - Scams and Frauds
  • Find or infer the main idea in articles about frauds, scams, and consumer issues.
  • Locate and restate specific information in these kinds of articles.
  • Apply information to specific situations.
Book 21 - Stories
  • Identify details about characters in a story.
  • Identify details about when and where a scene takes place.
  • Identify details about what happens in a scene.
Book 22 - The Narrator
  • Identify characteristics of the narrator and point of view from a specific passage.
  • Rephrase or restate what the narrator shows or tells the reader.
  • Draw inferences from what the narrator does and does not say, from the narrator's tone, and from the narrator's style.
Book 23 - Literature
  • Infer information about characters and situations in a story.
  • Infer information about characters and events from dialogue.
  • Recognize details from a scene that support statements about characters, events, and relationships.
Book 24 - Language Enrichment
  • Distinguish between literal and figurative language.
  • Recognize metaphor, simile, and literal comparisons.
  • Infer meaning from passages that use figurative language.
Book 25 - Figurative Language
  • Restate what is being compared in a figurative comparison.
  • State the main idea of a passage containing a figurative comparison.
  • Infer meaning from passages with figurative comparisons.
Book 26 - A Writer's Moves
  • Find relevant details about a character, scene, or situation.
  • Infer relationships among characters and situations.
  • Define difficult words, terms, or symbols from the context.
Book 27 - Interpretation
  • Identify basic features of a work in terms of the tone, style, and voices within it.
  • Compare and contrast characters and scenes.
  • Restate ideas directly stated or implied in a scene.
Book 28 - Putting It All Together
  • Analyze passages in terms of narrator, character, dialogue, action, setting, tone, and style.
Reading Two
Book 1 - Reading Between the Lines
  • Identify main ideas in a passage.
  • Identify supporting details.
  • Define words from context.
  • Interpret figurative language.
  • Distinguish abstract from concrete language.
Book 2 - Analyzing Literature
  • Identify unstated main ideas.
  • Identify supporting ideas.
  • Draw inferences.
  • Identify a writer's emphasis.
  • Summarize plot and meaning.
Book 3 - Tricks of the Writer's Trade
  • Analyze writers' motives and methods.
  • Distinguish fact from opinion.
  • Identify cause and effect.
  • Compare and contrast ideas.
  • Summarize.
Book 4 - Inside Authors and Characters
  • Analyze writers' purposes.
  • Derive meaning from characterization and style and tone.
  • Recognize how rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, and repetition contribute to meaning.
Book 5 - Charts, Graphs, Maps and Cartoons
  • Identify kinds of maps.
  • Find information from maps, charts, and graphs.
  • Interpret information from charts, graphs, and maps.
Book 6 - Ecology
  • Find main ideas.
  • Use context clues to interpret information.
  • Identify causes and effects.
  • Draw inferences.
Book 7 - Cellular Biology
  • Find main ideas.
  • Interpret visual materials.
  • Read for detail.
  • Compare and contrast information.
  • Identify sequences.
Book 8 - Earth Science
  • Interpret information from visual materials.
  • Read for detail.
  • Draw inferences.
  • Find unstated main ideas.
  • Recognize causes and effects.
  • Use context clues to define terms.
  • Distinguish fact from opinion.
Book 9 - Atmosphere and Space
  • Find main ideas.
  • Draw inferences and conclusions.
  • Summarize written material.
  • Use context clues to define terms.
  • Read for detail.
  • Identify sequences; causes and effects.
  • Compare and contrast.
Book 10 - Atoms and Chemistry
  • Find main ideas.
  • Draw inferences.
  • Compare and contrast.
  • Identity cause and effect
  • Interpret models.
  • Identify sequences.
Book 11 - Physics
  • Find main ideas.
  • Use context clues to define terms.
  • Draw inferences.
  • Compare and contrast.
  • Identify sequences.
  • Distinguish fact from theory and hypothesis.
Book 12 - Early American History
  • Interpret graphs and charts.
  • Identify sequences.
  • Recognize causes and effects.
  • Use context clues.
  • Distinguish fact from opinion.
  • Determine the relative importance of events.
Book 13 - Revolution and Civil War
  • Interpret visual material.
  • Identify sequences.
  • Determine causes and effects.
  • Draw inferences.
  • Compare and contrast situations/events.
Book 14 - Industrial Revolution and Depression
  • Draw inferences.
  • Determine the relative importance of information.
  • Identify causes and effects.
  • Distinguish fact from opinion.
  • Interpret visual material.
  • Determine sequence.
Book 15 - World War II and the Cold War
  • Find main ideas.
  • Determine causes and effects.
  • Draw inferences.
  • Recognize differing points of view.
Book 16 - Post War Domestic Politics
  • Determine meaning from context.
  • Draw inferences.
  • Identify causes and effects.
  • Determine the relative importance of events.
  • Organize material according to time sequence.


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