| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Book 24 - Language Enrichment |
- Distinguish between literal and figurative language.
- Recognize metaphor, simile, and literal comparisons.
- Infer meaning from passages that use figurative language.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Book 28 - Putting It All Together |
- Analyze passages in terms of narrator, character, dialogue, action, setting, tone, and style.
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| 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.
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| Book 2 - Analyzing Literature |
- Identify unstated main ideas.
- Identify supporting ideas.
- Draw inferences.
- Identify a writer's emphasis.
- Summarize plot and meaning.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Book 6 - Ecology |
- Find main ideas.
- Use context clues to interpret information.
- Identify causes and effects.
- Draw inferences.
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| Book 7 - Cellular Biology |
- Find main ideas.
- Interpret visual materials.
- Read for detail.
- Compare and contrast information.
- Identify sequences.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Book 10 - Atoms and Chemistry |
- Find main ideas.
- Draw inferences.
- Compare and contrast.
- Identity cause and effect
- Interpret models.
- Identify sequences.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Book 13 - Revolution and Civil War |
- Interpret visual material.
- Identify sequences.
- Determine causes and effects.
- Draw inferences.
- Compare and contrast situations/events.
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| 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.
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| Book 15 - World War II and the Cold War |
- Find main ideas.
- Determine causes and effects.
- Draw inferences.
- Recognize differing points of view.
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| 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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