Maximize Your Reading 1

Maximize Your Reading 1 provides students with instruction and practice in developing their academic reading, vocabulary, and study skills. The four levels of Maximize Your ReadingWorkbooks feature useful strategies and abundant practice, helping students become confident and successful readers.

This flexible four-level workbook series can be used with any other reading texts or integrated skills courses.

Highlights

• Reading Comprehension section offers extensive reading and critical thinking skill development and includes skimming, scanning, previewing, predicting, making inferences, and recognizing patterns.
• Vocabulary Building section helps students develop the essential vocabulary-building strategies and includes practice in dictionary work, recognizing word parts and collocations, and guessing meaning from context.
• Reading Faster section includes longer readings and allows students to apply reading skills and strategies and build their fluency and flexibility in reading longer texts. Timed and untimed reading options help students develop the fluency skills needed to read and understand texts quickly.
• Pre- and post-tests provide formative assessment at the beginning of the course and summative assessment at the end. End-of-section tests allow student to check how well they understood the content of each section.
• Clear skill presentations provide explanations and give students extra reinforcement.

Reading Level 1 — Beginner

Pre-Test

Comprehension Skills

Previewing and Predicting

Previewing

Predicting

Identifying Topics and Main Ideas

Identifying the Topic of a List

Understanding Paragraphs

Identifying the Topic of a Paragraph

Identifying the Main Idea

Scanning

Scanning for Letters and Letter Combinations

Scanning for Key Words and Phrases

Scanning for Information

Recognizing Patterns

Recognizing Time Order

Listing Pattern

Sequence Pattern

Making Inferences

Making Inferences from Pictures

Making Inferences from Riddles

Making Inferences from Conversations and Stories

Comprehension Skills Practice Test

Vocabulary Building

Dictionary Work

Using the Dictionary

Parts of Speech

Finding the Right Meaning

Word Parts

Prefixes

Suffixes

Word Forms and Families

Guessing Meaning from Context

What Is Context?

Guessing the Meaning of Words

How Words Work Together

Phrases

Parts of Sentences

Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives

Vocabulary Building Practice Test

Thinking in English

Thinking in English Practice

Thinking in English Practice Test

Study Skills

Dictionary Words

Choosing Words to Learn

Storing and Studying New Words

Tips for Reading Tests

Language in Context

Appendices

Appendix 1 Taking Notes: Identifying Key Ideas

Appendix 2 Underlining and Highlighting

Appendix 3 Reading Strategies

Appendix 4 The Most Common Words

Appendix 5 Transitions for Time Order

Appendix 6 Transitions for Patterns

Post-Test

Answer Key

• Reading Comprehension section offers extensive reading and critical thinking skill development and includes skimming, scanning, previewing, predicting, making inferences, and recognising patterns.
• Vocabulary Building section helps students develop the essential vocabulary-building strategies and includes practice in dictionary work, recognising word parts and collocations, and guessing meaning from context.
• Reading Faster section includes longer readings and allows students to apply reading skills and strategies and build their fluency and flexibility in reading longer texts. Timed and untimed reading options help students develop the fluency skills needed to read and understand texts quickly.
• Pre- and post-tests provide formative assessment at the beginning of the course and summative assessment at the end. End-of-section tests allow student to check how well they understood the content of each section.
• Clear skill presentations provide explanations and give students extra reinforcement.