Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day, 3rd Edition

LESSON 5
Putting It All Together
45
Practice in combining the skills you’ve learned in Lessons 1–4
Contents
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STRUCTURE
LESSON 6
Start from the Beginning: Chronological Order
53
Working through passages that start at the beginning and finish at the end 
of a sequence of events
LESSON 7
Order of Importance
61
Using the order in the writing to determine what is most important to the author
LESSON 8
Similarities and Differences: Compare and Contrast
67
Using comparisons to determine the author’s attitude
LESSON 9
Why Do Things Happen? A Look at Cause and Effect
73
The relationship between action and reaction
LESSON 10
Being Structurally Sound: Putting It All Together
81
Reviews Lessons 6–9, including identifying the structure used; 
practice with combined structures
LANGUAGE AND STYLE
LESSON 11
A Matter of Perspective: Point of View
89
Purposes of first-, second-, and third-person writing
LESSON 12
Diction: What’s in a Word?
95
Defining tone from the choice of words
LESSON 13
Style: It’s Not What They Say but How They Say It
101
Sentence structure; degree of detail, description, and formality
LESSON 14
How They Say It, Part Two: Tone
107
How tone influences meaning
LESSON 15
Word Power: Putting It All Together
111
Reviews Lessons 11–14
READING BETWEEN THE LINES
LESSON 16
Finding the Implied Main Idea
119
Making inferences, determining an unstated purpose
LESSON 17
Assuming Causes and Predicting Effects
125
Reading between the lines, implied action and reaction