Opening Doors

• PART ONE: ORIENTATION: PREPARING AND ORGANIZING YOURSELF FOR SUCCESS IN COLLEGE
• Chapter 1: Making Yourself Successful in College
• Chapter 2: Approaching College Reading and Developing a College-Level Vocabulary
• Chapter 3: Approaching College Assignments: Reading Textbooks and Following Directions
• PART TWO: COMPREHENSION: UNDERSTANDING COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS BY READING FOR IDEAS
• Chapter 4: Determining the Topic and the Stated Main Idea
• Chapter 5: Formulating Implied Main Ideas
• Chapter 6: Identifying Supporting Details
• Chapter 7: Recognizing Authors’ Writing Patterns
• Chapter 8: Reading Critically
• Chapter 9: Thinking Critically
• PART THREE: SYSTEMS FOR STUDYING TEXTBOOKS: DEVELOPING A SYSTEM THAT WORKS FOR YOU
• Chapter 10: Selecting and Organizing Textbook Information
• Chapter 11: Rehearsing Textbook Information and Preparing for Tests
• ESSENTIAL SKILLS REVIEW TESTS 1-10
• Appendix 1 Glossary of Key Reading and Study Skills Terms
• Appendix 2 A List of Word Parts: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
• Appendix 3: Master Vocabulary List

CONNECT READING provides a personalized learning plan for each student, continually developed and refined as students achieve mastery.  Each student plan is created through an individualized diagnostic that evaluates skills from 7th-grade level through college-readiness, for second-language learners, international students, adult students, and traditional high-schoolers.  Offered completely online, CONNECT READING can be used in conjunction with NEW WORLDS or OPENING DOORS, which provide a printed experience that teaches critical reading skills through close reading of anthologized chapters from best-selling undergraduate texts in Psychology, Sociology, Business, and more.