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Opening Doors is an intermediate college reading improvement text that presents a systematic way for students to approach their college reading assignments. Its 27 reading full-length reading selections and 2 chapter-length selections, which come from textbooks and other college appropriate materials, provide ample opportunities for integrated, recursive practice of essential reading comprehension skills, critical reading and thinking skills, and study strategies.
This new edition includes fuller explanations, enhanced illustrations and graphics, eight new reading selections, and expanded reading selection quizzes.
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Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Orientation: Preparing and Organizing Yourself for Success in College
- CHAPTER 1: Making Yourself Successful in College
- CHAPTER 2: Approaching College Reading and Developing a College-Level Vocabulary
- CHAPTER 3: Approaching College Assignments: Reading Textbooks and Following Directions
- Comprehension: Understanding College Textbooks by Reading for Ideas
- CHAPTER 4: Determining the Topic and the Stated Main Idea
- CHAPTER 5: Formulating Implied Main Ideas
- CHAPTER 6: Identifying Supporting Details
- CHAPTER 7: Recognizing Authors' Writing Patterns
- CHAPTER 8: Reading Critically
- CHAPTER 9: Thinking Critically
- Systems for Studying Textbooks: Developing a System That Works for You
- CHAPTER 10: Selecting and Organizing Textbook Information
- CHAPTER 11: Rehearsing Textbook Information and Preparing for Tests
- APPENDIX 1: Glossary of Key Reading and Study Skills Terms
- APPENDIX 2: A List of Word Parts: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
- APPENDIX 3: World Map, United States Map, and List of World Capitals
- APPENDIX 4: Master Vocabulary List
- Credits
- INDEX
- VOCABULARY LOG
- Front and Back Sheets
