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Improve your Reading, Improve your Job - Self-Directed Courseware Ref: CIRIJ

Duration:
Self-study

Description:
This down-to-earth, self-study book helps you identify strengths, sharpen existing skills, and develop new habits to improve your reading. You'll learn to read for meaning and main ideas, decode jargon, and much more.

Table Of Contents:

Section 1: Work Reading Skills
Skill 1: Steering Your Course: Active Reading for Meaning
Skill 2: Clearing the Air: Reading for Main Ideas
Skill 3: The Bottom Line: Identifying Key Information in Memos, Letters, and Reports
Skill 4: Behind the Seen: Recognizing Tone, Point of View, and Personal Agendas
Skill 5: Trailblazers: Simplifying Instructions
Skill 6: Eye-Openers: Tables and Graphs
Skill 7: Using New Hooks: The Five W's and an H

Section 2: Working Vocabulary
Skill 8: Beyond Byte Fright: Decoding Computer Jargon
Skill 9: In Brief: Abbreviations and Acronyms
Skill 10: Words at Work: Work Word Banks
Skill 11: It's Good to Know You: Medical Insurance Terms
Skill 12: In a Manner of Speaking: Figurative Language & Idioms

Section 3: Back-Up Skills
Skill 13: On Your Terms: Language-Experience Model
Skill 14: Bonds: Occupational Word Families and Employment Language
Skill 15: The Great Organizer: Alphabetical Order
Skill 16: Powerhouse, Power Tool: The Dictionary
Skill 17: Co-Workers: Consonant Blends
Skill 18: Singles and Doubles: Vowel Matching
Skill 19: The Silent Treatment: Silent Letters
Skill 20: Before and After: Prefixes and Suffixes
Skill 21: Same, Opposites, Sounds-the-Same, Looks-the-Same: Synonyms, Antonyms, Homophones, Homographs
Skill 22: Equalizers: Multiple Meanings for the Same Word

Appendix
Taking Stock: Informal Reading Inventory (Pronunciation, Comprehension, Vocabulary)

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