Reading Help

(for defining vocabulary in context)

• http://english-zone.com/vocab/vic01.html

• http://philo.ucdavis.edu/zope/home/kit/context.html

• http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/alexander_awl/chapter2/deluxe.html

(for finding Main Idea)

• http://www3.cerritos.edu/bettino/study_skills/main_idea.html

• http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/rvtopic.html

• http://wps.ablongman.com/long_mcwhorter_efr_6/0,1936,47461-,00.html

• http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/topic.html

• http://www.clt.astate.edu/bdoyle/Main%20Idea%20Notes.htm

• http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/alexander_awl/chapter3/deluxe.html

(for paraphrasing help)

• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_paraphr.html

• http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/WritingCenter/tutorials/sources/paraphrase/page2.htm

• http://www.missouri.edu/~commpjb/MoreSupport/Paraphrasing/paraphrasing.html

(for identifying supporting detail)

• http://vclass.mtsac.edu/amla-51/Supporting%20Details/details.htm

• http://school.discovery.com/quizzes/cc_aduran/SupportingDetails.html

• http://english.ttu.edu/uwc/coorsub1.html

• http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/composition/supportingdetails.html

• http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/composition/nonsupportingdetails.html

• http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/alexander_awl/chapter4/deluxe.html

(patterns of organization)

• http://www.angelfire.com/ks/teachme/patterns.html

• http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/alexander_awl/chapter5/deluxe.html

(mapping and summarizing)

• http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/iceland.html

(graphic organizers)

• http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/specificgos.html

(read first chapters online)

• http://mostlyfiction.com/excerpts.htm

• www.bookspot.com/firstchapters

• www.readersread.com

• www.cnn.com/books/beginnings

• www.usatoday.com/life/books/chapter.htm

• www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/chapterone.htm

• http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bookstore/index2_cds2.asp?PID=324&userid=2XHRQS1BIH

• http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/chapters/

   

   

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