building critical reading skills for rising high school students
A study guide designed to help high school students build reading skills in preparation for the SAT and ACT college entrance examinations. Includes how to identify key words that offer hidden information, pinpoint the primary purpose of reading passages, discover the language and implications of argument, identify the parts of words, use context clues to decipher unfamiliar vocabulary, and "trim the fat" to make sense of difficult paragraphs.