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 lea 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 leaed 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
20. 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-
20. 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 leaed. 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.
important that you proceed through this book in order, from Chapter 1 through Chapter
20. 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-
20. 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 leaed. 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.