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Summary of how this subskill is practiced in each resource |
Academic Connections 1,
Academic Connections 2,
Academic Connections 3,
Academic Connections 4 |
understanding the main idea in a passage |
| Academic Encounters: Human Behavior |
skimming for main ideas, reading the conclusion to get the main idea, predicting the content, previewing text headings |
| Academic Encounters: Life in Society |
reading for the main idea, skimming by reading first sentences |
| Creating Meaning |
identifying the main ideas, previewing and predicting ideas in a text |
| Inside Reading 2 |
highlighting and annotating a text, outlining and summarizing the main points, making predictions about text content |
| Inside Reading 1, Inside Reading 2, Inside Reading 3 |
previewing the text, finding the main idea |
| Inside Reading 4 |
describing key trends, synthesizing important information |
| Language Leader Intermediate |
using skimming and scanning as reading strategies
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| Making Connections Intermediate |
practicing fundamental reading skills including identifying main ideas |
| New Directions |
finding main ideas, summarizing and paraphrasing key information |
| New Headway Academic Skills 2 |
skimming for the general idea, using topic sentences to identify paragraph content |
| New Headway Academic Skills 3 |
practicing essential reading skills including surveying, skimming, scanning, and intensive reading for details, dealing with longer texts by predicting and previewing |
| NorthStar Reading and Writing 3 |
identifying main ideas |
| NorthStar Reading and Writing 4 |
summarizing and paraphrasing main ideas, predicting content |
| NorthStar Reading and Writing 5 |
reading for main ideas, predicting content |
| Panorama Reading 2, Panorama Reading 3 |
reading for main ideas |
| Select Readings Pre-Intermediate |
identifying the topic and main ideas |
| Select Readings Intermediate |
identifying main ideas and details, using headings to help understand content quickly |
| Select Readings Upper-Intermediate |
identifying the main ideas |
| Strategic Reading 1, Strategic Reading 2, Strategic Reading 3 |
understanding main ideas, restating what is read, skimming, scanning, and predicting content |
| Study Reading |
practicing reading skills (skimming, scanning, etc.) |
| Uncovering EAP |
background, resources and ideas for teaching academic reading including understanding main ideas |
Well Read 2,
Well Read 3,
Well Read 4 |
previewing ideas, understanding the topic and main ideas, scanning graphics to help understand content quickly, skimming for main ideas |