Part One Basic Reading
General Introduction
Unit 1 Speed Reading & Reading Speed
Unit 2 Techniques for Speed Reading
Unit 3 Reading Flexibility & Efficiency
Unit 4 Prereading & Predicting
Unit 5 Skimming & Scanning
Unit 6 Word Guessing—— Semantic Context and Syntactic Context
Unit 7 Word Guessing—— Immediate Context and Wider Context
Unit 8 Vocabulary Building—— Word Formation ( I )
Unit 9 Vocabulary Building —— Word Formation ( II )
Unit 10 Using the Dictionary
Part Two Effective Reading
General Introduction
Unit I Identifying Topics and Main Ideas
Unit 2 Recognizing Supporting Details
Unit 3 Recognizing Signal Words
Unit 4 Understanding Organizational Patterns(I )
Unit 5 Understanding Organizational Patterns(lI)
Unit 6 Understanding Organizational Patterns(III)
Unit 7 Creating Mind Maps
Part Three Critical Reading
General Introduction
Unit 1 Differentiating Facts from Opinions
Unit 2 Recognizing the Author's Purpose
Unit 3 Recognizing the Author's Tone
Unit 4 Reading Ideas as well as Words
Unit 5 Detecting Bias
Unit 6 Writing a Summary
Unit 7 Writing a Book Report/Book Review
Unit 8 Marking-up a Text
Part Four Comprehensive Reading
General Introduction
Unit 1 Reading a Story
Unit 2 Reading a Textbook
Unit 3 Reading a Newspaper
Key to Exercises
Appendix
Reference