Reading Skills

Welcome to the Companion Website designed to accompany Reading Skills Books published by Allyn & Bacon, including the following recent titles:

• Seyler: The Reading Context: Developing College Reading Skills, Second Edition
• Monahan: Reading With Confidence
• Wintner: The Reading Quest
• Garrigus: Design in Reading: An Introduction to Critical Reading
• Skidell & Becker: The Main Idea: Reading to Learn, Second Edition
• Seyler: Steps to College Reading, Second Edition

This Companion Website is designed to help students test themselves and receive instant feedback on exercise work in ten of the major readings skills areas. Please click on the menu below to link to exercise sets in these various skill areas.

Special Thanks to:
Priscilla E. Howard and Daphne Key who provided the material used in this website.

Select a Topic: Vocabulary in Context Finding the Main Idea Supporting Details Signal Words Patterns of Organization Fact and Opinion Purpose and Tone Inferences Argument Combined Skills

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