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Fry, Edward B. – 1978
Part of a series intended to develop essential specialized reading skills, this text/workbook is designed to provide instruction and practice in skimming and scanning for students reading at the seventh through tenth grade reading levels, considered the advanced level. Part 1 of the book deals with skimming. A lesson defines skimming (the rapid…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials, Reading Rate
Warner, John F.; Warner, Margaret B. – 1987
Intended to increase reading motivation in students, this book features tales of ghosts and poltergeists. The tales range from the legendary to the contemporary. These accounts of ghost stories in the book provide subject matter for thoughtful interpretation and discussion, while challenging students in four critical reading categories: main idea,…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Download full textAir Univ., Gunter AFS, Ala. Extension Course Inst. – 1982
One of six related documents, this publication contains a U.S. Air Force course designed to help students improve their reading skills. The chapters contain lessons on reading habits and how they affect the reader, exercises to identify one's reading speed, an improvement program, exercises to improve eye movement and to reduce eye fixations,…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Extension Education, Postsecondary Education, Reading Comprehension
Alosh, Mahdi – 1994
This college-level textbook, entirely in Arabic, is designed to help students develop specific reading skills, namely, skimming and scanning. Users should have had at least 30 quarter hours of Arabic instruction previously. The reading selections and tasks are intended to promote reading fluency by also increasing reading speed. Learner tasks also…
Descriptors: Arabic, Class Activities, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Mercer County Community Coll., Trenton, NJ. – 1992
This document offers materials for a 40-hour course aimed at helping employees read more efficiently by increasing their comprehension, retention, and test-taking skills. The course was part of a workplace literacy project developed by Mercer County Community College (New Jersey) and its partners. The document contains the following: (1) a course…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Basic Skills
Mercer County Community Coll., Trenton, NJ. – 1992
This document offers materials for a year-long course on general basic reading skills that was part of a workplace literacy project developed by Mercer County Community College (New Jersey), and its partners. The document contains the following: (1) outlines (each of which contains objectives, a topical outline, and list of textbooks) for two…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Basic Skills
