Chesla Elizabeth L. Read Better, Remember More

A new Approach to Mastering The Basics. An innovative 20-step self-study program helps you learn at your own pace and make visible progress in just 20 minutes a day.Grammar essentials.
How to study.
Improve your writing for work.
Math essentials.
Practical spelling.
Practical vocabulary.
Read better, remember more.
The secrets of taking any test.Become a Better Student–Quickly.
Become a More Marketable Employee–Fast.
Get a Better Job–Now.The 20 practical chapters in this book are designed to help you better understand and remember what you read. Because you need to understand what you read in order to remember it, many chapters focus on reading comprehension strategies that will help you improve your overall reading ability and effectiveness. Each chapter focuses on a specific reading skill so that you can build your reading skills step by step in just 20 minutes a day. Practice exercises in each chapter allow you to put the reading strategies you learn into immediate practice. If you read a chapter a day,Monday through Friday, and do all the exercises carefully, you should be able to understand—and viii Read better, remember more remember—much more of what you read by the end of one month of study. The 20 chapters are divided into four sections. Each section focuses on a related set of reading skills: Section One: Setting ourself Up for Reading Success Section Two: Getting—and Remembering—the Gist of It Section Three: Improving Your Reading Iq section Four: Reader, Detective,Writer Each section begins with a brief explanation of that section’s focus and ends with a chapter that reviews the main ideas of that section. The practice exercises allow you to combine all of the reading strategies you learned in that section. Although each chapter is an effective skill builder on its own, it’s.
Important that you proceed through this book in order, from Chapter 1 through Chapter.
Each chapter builds on the skills and ideas discussed in previous chapters. If you don’t have a thorough understanding of the concepts in Chapter 4, for example, you may have difficulty with the concepts in Chapters 5-.
The reading and practice passages will also increase in length and complexity with each chapter. Be sure you thoroughly understand each chapter before moving on to the next one. Each chapter provides several practical exercises that ask you to use the strategies you’ve just learned. To help you be sure you’re on the right track, each chapter also provides answers and explanations for the practice questions. Each chapter also includes practical skill building suggestions for how to continue practicing these skills throughout the rest of the day, the week, and beyond.