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Developed for students at the 10-12 reading level, MINDSCAPES: CRITICAL READING SKILLS AND STRATEGIES, 2E helps students become stronger readers based on how the brain best processes and learns information. Christine Evans Carter has developed a powerful approach to building reading skills that is based on the latest research in brain-based learning; when students recognize the structure and organization of information, they maximize their learning power. This focus on text structure provides a scaffold onto which developmental-level readers can apply new knowledge. Information is presented in a carefully crafted sequence that serves to build upon prior knowledge and expand understanding of skills and strategies in a recursive manner. In addition, each chapter includes study skills and discipline-specific vocabulary and reading strategies to help students succeed in all of their courses.

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• Introduction: Fundamental Study Strategies For College Success
• Unit I Reading For Structure
• 1 Understanding Active Reading
• How You Learn
• Reading Strategies
• Your Purpose For Reading
• Reading Study Strategy: Surveying And Previewing A Reading
• Identifying Topic
• Vocabulary Strategy: Using Context Clues
• Applications
• 2 Understanding Patterns Of Organization And Supporting Details
• Recognizing Patterns Of Organization
• Relationships Between Ideas
• Reading Study Strategies: Paraphrase To Aid Comprehension
• Vocabulary Strategy: Identifying Prefixes And Suffixes
• Applications
• Unit 1 Textbook Application
• Unit II Reading For Main Ideas
• 3 Understanding Explicit Main Ideas
• Author's Purpose
• Main Idea
• Reading Study Strategy: Summarizing to Express Main Idea and Supporting Details
• Vocabulary Strategy: Recognizing Root Words
• Applications
• 4 Understanding Implied Main Ideas
• Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
• Implied Main Idea
• Vocabulary Strategy: Understanding Figurative Language
• Reading Study Strategy: Reading and Understanding Literature
• Applications
• Unit 2 Textbook Application
• Unit III Reading For Study
• 5 Understanding Text Marking and Annotation
• Reading Study Strategies: Monitoring Your Reading
• Marking and Annotating Text
• Vocabulary Strategy: Improving Your College-Level Vocabulary
• Applications
• 6 Understanding Text Note Taking
• Reading Study Strategies: College Reading In The Disciplines
• Using Textbook Features
• Taking Notes
• Note Taking from Reading
• Vocabulary Strategy: Studying Vocabulary
• Applications
• Unit 3 Textbook Application
• Unit IV Reading Critically
• 7 Understanding Arguments
• Reading Study Strategies: How to Read a Variety of Sources
• Reading Controversial Text
• Vocabulary Strategy: Recognizing Bias and Tone: Denotation, Connotation, and Loaded Language
• Applications
• 8 Evaluating Arguments
• Reading Study Strategy: Critical Thinking Strategies
• Recognizing Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
• Evaluating Arguments
• Vocabulary Strategy: Intended Meaning: Euphemisms and Doublespeak
• Applications
• Unit 4 Textbook Application