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WHAT HAVE YOU READ LATELY?

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Step 10

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  • Advanced Critical Reading, Ex. 1
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  • Improving Argument Skills, Ex. 1
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Step 8

  • Ablongman - Lab Activity 46
  • Ablongman - Practice 1
  • Ablongman - Practice 2
  • Advanced Purpose & Tone, Ex. 1
  • Advanced Purpose & Tone, Ex. 2
  • Advanced Purpose & Tone, Ex. 3
  • Advancing Purpose & Tone, Ex. 1
  • Advancing Purpose & Tone, Ex. 2
  • Commonly Used Tone Words - Practice 3
  • Improving Purpose & Tone, Ex. 1
  • Improving Purpose & Tone, Ex. 2
  • Overview: Purpose & Tone (Pearson's)
  • Purpose & Tone - Review Test 1
  • Purpose & Tone - Review Test 2
  • Purpose & Tone - Review Test 3

Inferences Song

Step 7

  • Ablongman Quiz (10 Questions)
  • Advanced Inferences, Ex. 1
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  • Improving Inferences, Ex. 2
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SAT/ACT Reading Inferences

Step 6

  • Advanced Relationships II, Ex. 1
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  • Advanced Relationships II, Ex. 3
  • Advancing Relationships II, Ex. 1
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Step 5

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  • Advanced Relationships I, Ex. 3
  • Advancing Relationships I, Ex. 1
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  • Improving Relationships I, Ex. 1
  • Improving Relationships I, Ex. 2

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  • Identifying Supporting Details and Understanding Relationships Among Ideas
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  • Implied Main Ideas & Implied Central Ideas: Lab 38 - 40
  • Overview: Supporting Details (Pearson)
  • Stated Main Ideas & Supporting Details: Lab Activity 11 - 20
  • Supporting Details, Practice 3
  • TP Main Idea, Chapter 2
  • Understanding Implied Main ideas

Context Clues Song

Step I

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  • Exercise 2 - Advancing 5/e
  • Exercise 2 - Improving 5/e
  • Game: The Vocabulary of Questions
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  • Powerpoint: Vocabulary in Context, TP 4th Edition
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  • TP Notes on Vocabulary in Context
  • TP Types of Context Clues
  • Video: Multiple meaning Words

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