Turning Learners into Proficient ReadersThis textbook is designed to prepare adult learners for the TABE 13 & 14 Level A reading test and vocational training admission reading tests. It presents exercises that help adult education and workforce programs, and their learners meet the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) reading expectations. The reading exercises and answer keys of this book cover TABE 13 & 14 Level A and College and Career Readiness (CCR) reading standards and content. They help learners strengthen their ability to: • • Identify key ideas and details, including making inferences and summarizing • Analyze the structure of texts and the author's use of rhetorical strategies • Determine vocabulary meaning in context, including figurative and connotative language • Evaluate arguments, reasoning, and evidence • Integrate and interpret information from multiple sources and formats The book is divided into 16 sections as follows:
• Unit 1: Suggestions for Better Reading Comprehension • Unit 2: Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension • Unit 3: Activating Background or Prior Knowledge • Unit 4: Reading for Main Ideas • Unit 5: Summarization • Unit 6: Drawing Inferences • Unit 7: Comprehension Monitoring • Unit 8: Question-Answer Relationships • Unit 9: Patterns for Organizing Texts • Unit 10: Understanding Figurative Language • Unit 11: Examining Point of View • Unit 12: Analyzing the Author's Purpose and Technique • Unit 13: Evaluating the Credibility of Texts • Practice Tests 1 • Practice Tests 2 • Test Answer Keys
This book is an instructional guide designed to help adult learners become more purposeful, strategic, and critical readers. It encourages active engagement with texts through strategies such as questioning, predicting, summarizing, and connecting ideas. These strategies improve both understanding and retention, which are essential for academic and workplace success.
You will use all your language skills-reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing-as you progress through this book. Reading is a thinking process, and it is most effective when approached actively.
