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MINDSCAPES, a college reading text based on the premise that the brain learns best through organization of information, shows students the way to success by teaching them to think about reading in a way that will not only increase their ability to read, but also their desire to read, their comprehension and their memory.

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• Unit 1 Reading for Structure. (Theme: The Brain: Memory, Learning and Substance Use)
• 1 Understanding Structure: Active Reading Strategies
• Pre Assessment: 5 Things You Must Never Forget by Greg Soltis
• Study Strategies: Using Your Motivation, Time Management, and Learning
• Styles Motivation: The Key to Success
• On Your Own: Are You Motivated
• Setting Achievable Goals Quick Tips: 10 Tips for Setting Goals
• On Your Own: Setting Your Long-Term, Intermediate, & Short-Term Goals Time Management
• Learning Styles VARK Quick Tips: Working with Your VARK
• Learning Style Before, During, After Reading Multiple Intelligences
• Quick Tips: Choose Your Study Environment
• On Your Own: Applying Study Skills to Goal Setting
• Active Reading Metacognition
• Memory and How the Brain Processes Information Sensory
• Memory Working (Short Term)
• Memory Long
• Term Memory Forgetting
• Quick Tips: Memory and Study Strategies for College Success
• Purpose for Reading Surveying and Previewing a Reading
• Surveying a Reading Questioning: Creating Guide Questions
• Thinking It Through: Formulating Good Guide Questions
• On Your Own: Surveying a Reading Previewing a Reading
• Identifying Topic
• Thinking It Through: Identifying Topic
• Quick Tips: Identifying Topic
• On Your Own: Identifying Topic
• Holistic Reading Strategies SQ3R and SQ4R PQ4R KWL
• On Your Own: Applying Reading Strategies
• Vocabulary Strategy: Using Context Clues
• Thinking It Through: Using Context Clues
• On Your Own: Using Context Clues
• Understanding Graphics: Applying Topic and Questioning to Visual Aids
• Thinking It Through: Applying Questioning to Graphs
• On Your Own: Applying Questioning to Graphs
• Applications
• Application 1 The Three R's of Remembering: Record, Retain, Retrieve
• Application 2 Increase Your Memory Power
• Application 3 Inside the Mind of a Savant
• Post Assessment: The Spotless Mind by Michael Rosenwald
• 2 Understanding Structure: Patterns of Organization and Supporting Details
• Pre Assessment: Alcohol Stunts Neuron Generation by Carolyn Seydel
• Recognizing Patterns of Organization
• The Importance of Patterns of Organization
• Quick Tips: Benefits of Recognizing Patterns of Organization
• How to View Patterns of Organization
• What Function Do Patterns of Organization Serve
• The Role of Transition Words
• Supporting Details
• Major and Minor Details
• Categories of Organizational Patterns
• Patterns That List
• Quick Tips: When Is a List a List
• Patterns That Explain
• Patterns That Analyze
• Quick Tips: Steps to Determining Organizational Pattern
• Thinking It Through: Mixed Patterns
• On Your Own: Identifying Patterns of Organization in Shorter Passages
• Thinking It Through: Identifying an Overall Pattern of Organization in Longer Readings
• Quick Tips: Patterns of Organization Facts On Your Own: Identifying Topic and Patterns
• Relationships between Ideas
• Thinking It Through: Finding Relationships between Ideas On Your Own: Finding Relationships between Ideas
• Study Strategy: Paraphrase to Aid Comprehension
• Thinking It Through: Paraphrasing a Reading
• On Your Own: Paraphrasing a Reading
• Quick Tips: How to Paraphrase
• Vocabulary Strategy: Identifying Prefixes and Suffixes
• Prefixes
• On Your Own: Using Prefixes to Alter the Meaning of a Word Suffixes
• On Your Own: Using Suffixes to Alter the Part of Speech of a Word
• Understanding Graphics: Identifying Patterns and Supporting Details
• Thinking It Through: Seeing the Relationships between Ideas in Graphics
• On Your Own: Seeing the Relationship between Ideas in Graphics
• Applications
• Application 1 Is Marijuana Dangerous?
• Application 2 Alcohol and the Adolescent Brain
• Application 3 Drugs and the Brain
• Post Assessment: Trading for a High
• Unit 1 Textbook Application
• Laura Freberg, " Chapter 16 Psychological Disorders", from Discovering Biological Psychology
• Unit 2 Reading for Main Ideas. (Theme: Communication and Conflict Across Cultures
• 3 Understanding Explicit Main Ideas
• Pre-Assessment: The Differences between Boys and Girls
• At the Office by Marjory Weinstein
• Author'S Purpose
• To Inform
• To Instruct
• To Persuade
• To Entertain On Your Own: Determining an Author's Purpose
• Main Idea
• Purpose Is Linked to Main Idea Topic, Purpose, Pattern for Supporting Details and Main Idea Are Intertwined
• The Difference between Topic and Main Idea
• Quick Tips: Things to Remember about Main Idea Finding the Main Idea
• Quick Tips: Steps to Finding the Main Idea
• Quick Tips: Steps to Checking the Main Idea
• Where Are Explicit Main Ideas Located
• Explicit Main Idea in a Whole Reading
• Explicit Main Idea in a Subsection of a Reading
• Explicit Main Idea in a Paragraph--The Topic Sentence
• On Your Own: Determining Topic Sentences within Paragraphs
• Thinking It Through: Finding the Main Idea of a Whole Reading On Your Own: Finding the Main Idea
• Study Strategy: Summarizing to Express Main Idea and Supporting Details
• Quick Tips: Summary Essentials
• How to Write a Summary Thinking It Through: Summarizing a Reading
• On Your Own: Summarizing a Reading
• Vocabulary Strategy: Recognizing Root Words
• On Your Own: Recognizing Root Words
• Understanding Graphics: Finding the Main Idea in Visual Aids
• On Your Own: Finding the Main Idea in Bar Graphs
• Applications
• Application 1 We Just Clicked
• Application 2 Diversity and Cultural Contacts: Interpreting through Different I's
• Application 3 MySpace Faces Stiff Competition in Japan
• Post Assessment: The Pitfalls of E-mail
• 4 Understanding Implied Main Ideas
• Pre-Assessment: Like Humans, Chimps Bow to Social Pressure by Bjorn Carey
• Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
• Inferences and Your Background Knowledge Quick Tips: Steps to Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
• Thinking It Through: Making Reasonable Inferences & Drawing Logical Conclusions
• On Your Own: Making Reasonable Inferences & Drawing Logical Conclusions
• Implied Main Idea
• Topic + Existing Sentence = Implied Main Idea
• Sentence + Sentence = Implied Main Idea
• General Statement Based on Supporting Details= Implied Main Idea
• Steps to Finding the Implied Main Idea
• Quick Tips: Writing Implied Main Idea Statements
• On Your Own: Finding Implied Main Ideas in Paragraphs
• Thinking It Through: Finding the Implied Main Idea of a Longer Reading
• On Your Own: Finding the Implied Main Idea of a Whole Reading
• On Your Own: Formulating Implied Main Ideas
• Understanding Graphics: Finding Implied Main Ideas in Visual Aids and Cartoons
• On Your Own: Finding Implied Main Ideas in Visual Aids and Cartoons
• Vocabulary Strategy: Understanding Figurative Language
• On Your Own: Recognizing Figurative Language
• Study Strategy: Reading and Understanding Literature
• Quick Tips: Steps to Finding the Main Idea of Literature Elements to Consider When Reading Literature
• Quick Tips: Elements to Consider When Reading Literature
• Thinking It Through: Analyzing a Poem
• On Your Own: Analyzing a Poem
• Applications
• Application 1 Organized Crime - American Mafia
• Application 2 A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials
• Application 3 The Lottery
• Post Assessment: Study: Office Bullies Create Workplace 'Warzone
• Unit 2 Textbook Application
• Perry/Baker/Hollinger, "Chapter 24 World War I and Its Aftermath: The Last Generation and the Jazz Age" from The Humanities in the Western Tradition
• Unit 3 Reading for Study. (Theme: Education and Responsibility)
• 5 Understanding Text Marking and Annotation
• Pre Assessment: Losing Global Ground by Lynn Olson
• Study Strategies: Critical Thinking and Using Question/Answer Relationships (QAR) As A Study Aid
• Reading Rate
• Quick Tips: Calculating Reading Rate
• Using Textbook Features
• On Your Own: Finding Textbook Features
• Marking and Annotating Text
• Why Use Text Marking
• How to Mark a Text Quick Tips: Suggested Techniques for Marking a Text
• Quick Tips: The "SOUL" Method of Taking Notes
• Thinking It Through: Marking a Text
• On Your Own: Marking a Text
• Vocabulary Strategy: Improving Your College-level Vocabulary
• Using a Dictionary Recognizing Common College Vocabulary
• On Your Own: Using the Dictionary with the Top 100 Vocabulary Words
• Quick Tips: Recognizing Commonly Misused Words
• Understanding Graphics: Reading Complex Tables
• Thinking It Through: Applying Inference to a Complex Table
• On Your Own: Reading Complex Tables
• Application 1 Get In, Show Up, Drop Out
• Application 2 Math Anxiety Saps Working Memory Needed To Do Math
• Application 3 Development of Achievement Motivation
• Post Assessment: Linking Learning to Earning by Lynn Olson
• 6 Understanding Text Note-Taking
• Pre Assessment: Arguments For and Against Social Responsibility
• Study Strategies: Taking Notes in Class and Succeeding on Tests in College
• Double Column Notes
• Cornell Notes
• Quick Tips: Taking Good College Notes in College Classes How to Take Tests in College
• Objective Tests
• Quick Tips: General Tips for Taking Objective Tests
• Essay Exams
• Types of Essay Questions
• College Reading in the Disciplines
• Note-Taking from Reading
• Quick Tips: Using the SOUL Method for Taking Notes
• Outlines
• Thinking It Through: Creating an Outline
• On Your Own: Creating an Outline
• On Your Own: Creating a Topic Outline
• Graphic Organizers: Webs, Clusters, Maps Charts
• Double Column Notes
• Quick Tips: Note-Taking Methods
• Thinking It Through: Taking Notes from a Reading
• On Your Own: Taking Notes from a Reading
• Vocabulary Strategies: Studying Vocabulary
• Textbook Glossaries
• Learning Key Terms
• Method 1 Dedicated Notebook for Vocabulary
• Method 2 Vocabulary Cards
• On Your Own: Create Vocabulary Cards
• Understanding Graphics: Reading and Understanding Diverse Graphic Formats
• On Your Own: Reading and Understanding Diverse Graphic Formats
• Application 1 Report: Teen Birth Rate Hits Record Low
• Application 2 Racial Injustice
• Application 3 Planet's Population Hit
• 6.5 Billion Saturday
• Post Assessment Future Use of Natural Resources by Chernicoff, Fox, and Tanner
• Unit 3 Textbook Application
• Grace Huerta, " Chapter 4 Equity and Education Practice," from Diverse Histories, Diverse Perspectives
• Unit 4 Reading Critically. (Theme: Crime, Medicine and Ethics)
• 7 Understanding Arguments
• Pre Assessment: Innocent Suspects Confess Under Pressure By LiveScience Staff
• Study Strategies: How to Read a Variety of Sources
• How to Read an Essay
• Quick Tips: Important Information to Note When Reading an Essay
• How to Read a Newspaper Article Quick Tips: Important Information to Note When Reading a Newspaper Article
• How to Read a Newspaper Editorial
• Quick Tips: Important Information to Note When Reading an Editorial
• How to Read a Research Study
• The Structure of a Research Study
• How to Approach Research Study Reading
• Quick Tips: Important Information to Note When Reading a Research Study
• Reading Controversial Text
• Prescriptive Versus Descriptive Writing
• Quick Tips: Distinguishing Prescriptive Writing from Descriptive Writing Mapping Arguments
• Thinking It Through: Mapping an Argument
• On Your Own: Mapping an Argument
• Fact and Opinion
• Quick Tips: Differences between Facts and Opinions
• On Your Own: Recognizing Fact and Opinion
• Types of Support for Arguments
• Thinking It Through: Identifying Fact, Opinion, and Support for Point of View
• On Your Own: Identifying Fact, Opinion, and Support for Point of View
• Thinking It Through: Mapping an Argument and Recognizing Support
• On Your Own: Mapping an Argument and Recognizing Support
• Vocabulary Strategy: Recognizing
• Bias and Tone: Denotation and Connotation and Loaded Language
• Connotation and Denotation
• Bias and Tone
• Loaded Language On Your Own: Recognizing Loaded Language
• Understanding Graphics: Distinguishing Fact from Opinion in Visuals
• On Your Own: Distinguishing Fact from Opinion in Visuals
• Application 1 The Social Psychology of False Confessions: Compliance, Internalization, and Confabulation
• Application 2 Theory Links Lead Exposure, Crime
• Application 3 The Devil in Confessions
• Post Assessment: The Real Crime: 1,000 Errors in Fingerprint Matching Every Year by LiveScience Staff
• 8 Evaluating Arguments
• Pre Assessment: Doctors Back Plan to Store Medical Info Under Your Skin
• Study Strategy: Recognizing Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
• Deductive Reasoning Inductive Reasoning
• Quick Tips: Recognizing Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
• On Your Own: Recognizing Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
• Deconstructing and Evaluating Arguments
• Evaluating Reasoning in an Argument
• Quick Tips: Steps to Evaluating an Argument
• Determining If Support Is Relevant
• Errors in Reasoning
• Logical Fallacies: Unintentional Errors in Reasoning
• Propaganda and Card Stacking: Intentional Errors in Reasoning
• Quick Tips: Determining Validity or Relevance of Support
• On Your Own: Identifying Errors in Reasoning
• Determining If an Argument Is Sound
• Quick Tips: Determining if an Argument Is Sound
• Quick Tips: Recognizing Errors in Reasoning
• On Your Own: Identifying Errors in Reasoning
• Quick Tips: Evaluating an Argument
• Thinking It Through: Evaluating an Argument
• On Your Own: Evaluating an Argument
• Vocabulary Strategy: Intended Meaning: Euphemisms and Doublespeak
• Euphemisms
• Doublespeak On Your Own: Identifying Euphemisms and Doublespeak
• Understanding Graphics: Recognizing Propaganda in Advertisements
• On Your Own: Identifying Propaganda in Advertisements
• Application 1 Preventing Memory Loss: Pro: Should we encourage use of scientific techniques to enhance memory and other cognitive functions?
• Con: CON by Expert Group on Cognitive Enhancements
• Application 2 Our View: Organ Donations Fall Short
• Financial Incentives Can Help by U.S.A Today editorial staff
• Opposing view: Organs aren't commodities
• Application 3 Amnesia Is the New Bliss
• Post Assessment: Hoping for a Girl
• Unit 4 Textbook Application
• Suzanne Samuels, "Chapter 14 Law and Medicine," from Law, Politics, and Society
• Appendix
• World & United States Maps