1: Reading Skills
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- 1.1: The Reading-Writing Connection
- This page explains the importance of writing while reading and various active reading strategies to help you gain more out of what you read.
- 1.2: Main Ideas and Supporting Details
- This page explains how to find and write thesis statements, main ideas, and various levels of supporting details through strategies and exercise practice.
- 1.5: Note-Taking Strategies
- This page covers various note-taking strategies to try.
- 1.6: Questioning Strategies
- This page shows a questioning strategy, called the questioning circles, that helps with active reading.
- 1.7: Vocabulary Strategies
- This page covers strategies to both figure out words you are reading and to expand your vocabulary.