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

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Read a poem on your own today. See if you can read between the lines to determine its theme.
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Read a short story today. Apply the techniques you used to determine the theme in a poem to deter-
mine the theme of the story.
Skill Building until Next Time

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ou’re almost at the end of this book. If you’ve been doing a lesson every weekday, you’ve spent almost
a month building your reading skills. Congratulations! This lesson uses a longer passage than the ones
you’ve read so far to give you a chance to practice all the skills you’ve learned. Here’s a quick review
of what you’ve learned since the last review lesson:
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Lesson 16: Finding an implied main idea. You practiced looking for clues in structure, language, and style,
as well as the facts of the passage, to determine the main idea.
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Lesson 17: Understanding implied causes and effects. You learned to “read between the lines” to determine
causes and make predictions about effects.
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Lesson 18: Emotional and logical appeals. You learned that arguments that appeal to readers’ emotions
must be supported by logic, as well in order, to be convincing.
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Lesson 19: Finding the theme in literature. You used your detective skills to find the main idea implied by
the structure, language, style, and action in a work of literature.
L E S S O N
Drawing
Conclusions:
Putting It All
Together
L E S S O N S U M M A R Y
This lesson wraps up your study of reading comprehension by review-
ing everything you’ve learned so far.