Table of Contents: Reader's Handbook Grades 9–12

INTRODUCTION

• What is Reading?
• Why You Read
• What You Read
• Reading as a Process
• The Reading and Writing Processes

THE READING PROCESS

• Before Reading
• During Reading
• After Reading

READING KNOW-HOW

READING TEXTBOOKS

• Reading History
• Reading Science
• Reading Math
• Focus on School Reading
• Focus on Foreign Language
• Focus on Science Concepts
• Focus on Questions
• Focus on Word Problems
• Elements of Textbooks

READING NONFICTION

• Reading Kinds of Nonfiction
• Introduction to Nonfiction
• Ways of Reading Nonfiction
• Elements of Nonfiction

READING FICTION

• Introduction to Reading Fiction
• Reading Kinds of Fiction
• Ways of Reading Fiction
• Elements of Fiction

READING POETRY

READING DRAMA

READING ON THE INTERNET

• Introduction to the Internet
• Reading a Website
• Elements of the Internet

READING GRAPHICS

READING FOR THE EVERYDAY WORD

• Introduction to Reading for the Real World
• Reading a Driver's Handbook
• Focus on Everyday Reading

READING FOR TESTS

IMPROVING VOCABULARY

READER'S ALMANAC

• Doing Research
• Reasons for Research
• Primary and Secondary Sources
• Finding Sources
• Strategy Handbook
• Close Reading
• Looking for Cause and Effect
• Note-Taking
• Outlining
• Paraphrasing
• Questioning the Author
• Reading Critically
• Skimming
• Summarizing
• Using Graphic Organizers
• Visualizing and Thinking Aloud
• Reading Tools
• Argument Chart
• Cause-Effect Organizer
• Character Development Chart
• Character Map
• Class and Text Notes
• Classification Notes
• Concept Map
• Critical Reading Chart
• Double-Entry Journal
• Fiction Organizer
• 5 W's and H Organizer
• Inference Chart
• Key Word or Topic Notes
• K-W-L Notes
• Magnet Summary
• Main Idea Organizer
• Nonfiction Organizer
• Outline
• Paraphrase or Retelling Chart
• Plot Diagram
• Process Notes
• Setting Chart
• Storyboard
• Story Organizer
• Story String
• Study Cards
• Summary Notes
• Thinking Tree
• Timeline or Sequence Notes
• Topic and Theme Organizer
• Two Per Line
• Two-Story Map
• Venn Diagram
• Viewpoint and Evidence Organizer
• Web
• Website Profiler