Reading Formula with Note-Taking

by Adam Worcester, Paul Edmunds, Casey Malarcher (Editor)

Reading Formula with Note Taking is a textbook designed to hone students' reading strategies and note-taking skills. Students will be challenged with content similar in style to that typically found on standardized tests designed to evaluate English proficiency such as academic paragraphs and short passages. Through the tips and exercises presented in Reading Formula with Note Taking , students will practice strategic reading skills to recognize the organization of information in passages and learn basic note-taking templates useful for outlining key information. Key features - More than 80 academic paragraphs and passages for practice - Various passages lengths for practice, ranging from 150 to 700 words - Reading comprehension questions following each paragraph and passage, including questions targeting main idea, inference, rhetorical purpose, sentence insertion, and summarizing - Answer key for all exercises including underlining guides and note diagrams

216 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published December 1, 2008