88 Passages

1984

Workbook. Helps diagnose reading comprehension needs. Develops reading skills in six areas: determining subject matter; grasping main idea; Identifying relevant details; seeing the author's purpose; drawing significant conclusions; and understanding meaning of words in context. Passages increase in difficulty as book progresses.

100 Passages

1984

Book. Consists of 100 short, interesting reading selections arranged in ascending order of reading difficulty. Passages are accompanied by questions that elicit nine essential elements of the reading process. Readers will learn to recognize the relationships of ideas, facts, and supporting material.

Academic Reading

2001

Text. Focuses on discipline-specific reading skills such as how to apply, modify, and adapt general reading skills to accommodate the unique features and requirements of various academic disciplines. Provides a complete review of comprehension and vocabulary skills and general textbook reading strategies; then it discusses ways to apply these strategies to academic disciplines.

Academic Reading

2001

Text focuses on discipline-specific reading skills such as how to apply, modify, and adapt general reading skills to accommodate unique features and requirements of various academic disciplines. Provides a review of comprehension and vocabulary skills and general textbook reading strategies; then discusses ways to apply these strategies to academic disciplines.

Best Nonfiction

• Middle
• Advanced

1998

Book. Each unit contains a nonfiction selection and lessons that teach concepts and skills to help students interpret selections and understand particular writing techniques. Units include written exercises that provide an opportunity for students to use what they’ve learned in the lessons.

Beyond Basics

• Level J – 11 & 12

1987

Comprehension Skills builder. Develops comprehension, reference, textbook, and literary skills. Final test measures understanding of topics. Answer key included.

Cloze Connections

1981

Workbook. Improves reading comprehension. Students identify the exact words that have been deleted and relate the whole to the part and the part to the whole. Readers blend semantic and syntactic clues to choose the most appropriate responses.

College Reading Program:

• Kits 1, 6, 7 and 8
• Kits 2, 3, 4 and 5

1968

Reading kit and workbook. Designed to increase speed and comprehension rates. Sections include: Booster Readings, Timed Readings, “Realife” Readings such as newspaper or articles, and practice exercises that test comprehension of reading skills. Reader’s advance to higher levels as scores improve. Answer key available.

Comprehension Skills
(Jamestown):
Intermediate & Advanced

1. Understanding the Main Idea
2. Making Judgments
3. Drawing Conclusions
4. Making Inferences
5. Appreciating Literary Forms
6. Recognizing Tone
7. Understanding Organization
8. Understanding Significant Details

1974

Booklet series. Designed to develop specific reading comprehension skills. Each booklet contains a description of a specific skill, a lesson teaching the use of that skill, a sample exercise, and practice exercises to develop that skill. Answer key available. Writing activities at the end of book help students apply the skills they have learned.

Controlled Reading
(Reading Efficiency)
Book JI
Book LK
Book MN
1963, 1964

Book. Helps readers increase reading comprehension. Stories in sections are arranged according to difficulty. Readers answer vocabulary and comprehension questions based on the stories. Answer key available.

Critical Thinking: Reading Across The Curriculum

1984

Book. Designed to give practice in reading academic material. Essays expose readers to many subject areas, topics, and ideas that they’re likely to confront in college. Inclusion of ten multiple-choice comprehension and evaluation questions after each selection provides feedback to both students and instructor. General questions serve as springboards for further analysis and discussion.

Efficient Reading

1984, 1987

Book. Helps students develop a college-level reading efficiency. The first part includes selections that sharpen student awareness of the role played by interest, attitude, habits, imaginations, and organization in effective written and spoken communication. The second part contains questions testing comprehension of the material.

Essential Skills Series

1982

A series of booklets, of increasing difficulty designed to improve reading comprehension. Readings cover discovering the main idea, supporting details, conclusions and clarifying devices (such as metaphor, simile and organizational patterns), as well as understanding vocabulary in context.

Everyday Heroes

1992

Stories. Before each story there is a preview and a word list. Some stories are written by the person. Other stories are written about the person. Each story includes a photograph. Vocabulary, reading, and discussion questions and writing assignments follow each story.

Fry Reading Drills – Advanced

1989

Book. Designed to help readers improve their reading speed and comprehension. Each book emphasizes timed reading passages followed by two types of comprehension questions, two types of cloze passages and a vocabulary in context drill. Thirty passages are divided into three sets of ten each. Set C is the easiest to read, Set A is a medium difficulty, and Set B is the most difficult.

Jamestown Timed
Reading

1989

Book Series. Timed Readings are books of fifty 400-word passages with ten comprehension questions for each passage. Organized by levels of increasing difficulty. The fifty passages within each level are at the same level of difficulty. Gives readers practice in reading relatively short passages and answering comprehension questions.

Listen And Read

1969

Workbooks and tapes. This program includes 3 levels of language skill lessons. Level GHI-1 concentrates on reading skills and GHI-2 concentrates on listening skills. Level MN is designed to sharpen a student’s ability to listen with comprehension and to analyze and evaluate what he hears and reads.

Practices in Regents
Competency Test in Reading

1979

Book. Organized around six major skill areas: Main Idea, Finding the Facts, Cause and Effect, Sequence, Comparison and Contrast, and Making Inferences. A brief section illustrates how skills may be applied to answering cloze-type questions. Following this are nine passages, three on each of three levels of difficulty, all emphasizing the one specific skill under review. Percentage chart to compute score available.

Reading and Understanding Nonfiction

1990

Book. Teaches readers how to interpret the nonfiction selections they will read. Topics covered: use of language, character development, main ideas, organizing facts, author’s viewpoint, style and structure, and tone. Review section tests student’s comprehension of the material.

Reading for Comprehension

1994

Workbook. Designed to improve reader’s reading comprehension. Contains articles about real-life adventures, unusual animals, famous people, interesting places, and important events. After reading a story, students are tested on their understanding of the article. Concepts tested include, main idea, vocabulary and context clues.

Reading for Understanding
Kit B
Kit 2
Kit 3Senior

1990, 1965

Kit. Program breaks reading progress into 100 levels of difficulty. Each level contains 3 cards designated by symbols (circle, square, or triangle) all of approximately equal difficulty. Each card has ten (10) short answer completion items that can be answered quickly. (RFU cards are especially useful for small segments of time remaining in a lab hour.)

Reading Line
Program

1973

Book series. Offers readers content area related articles that will help student’s read more effectively. Focus is placed on how to interpret what student’s have read, how to respond to it and how to formulate questions and find answers to them. A section on note-taking and test-taking is included.

Reading Program
Books:
B – Vocabulary
E – Relationships
F – Essay Structure

1982

Workbook series. Designed to give reader’s the tools they will need to better understand what they are reading. Each workbook gives practice in one area of comprehension. Written and multiple choice exercises give practice in applying what readers have learned.

Reading Road Trip

2001

Computer program available on CD. Offers tutorials, reading, interactive exercises, and mastery tests for a wide variety of reading and study skills. Within each skill-based module, the user visits a different point of interest in the U.S. Skills introduced: active reading, taking notes, critical thinking, analytical reasoning, main idea, inference, memory tips, outlining and time management.

Reading Strategies
Studies Guide
IA
FA
HA
1985, 1991

Series of reading workbooks contain twenty short articles in each book. (Levels GA, HA, IA). Several exercises, including comprehension questions, accompany each article.

Reading In The

Content Fields

Book. Develops reading skills that are helpful when studying certain content area courses. There are middle and advanced levels in most of the following content areas: English (middle level only), Social Studies, Science, Mathematics (middle level only), and Practical Arts (middle level only).

Reading Road Trip

2001

Computer program available on CD. Offers tutorials, reading, interactive exercises, and mastery tests for a wide variety of reading and study skills. Within each skill-based module, the user visits a different point of interest in the U.S. Skills introduced: active reading, taking notes, critical thinking, analytical reasoning, main idea, inference, memory tips, outlining and time management.

Selections From The Black

1998

Book. Uses a thematic focus on the black experience to improve reader’s reading comprehension, vocabulary, reading rate, study skills, and writing ability. Vocabulary and writing exercises test comprehension of topics introduced in the lessons. Answer Key Available.

Jamestown’s
Signature Reading
K
L

2000

Book. Designed to improve reading comprehension and vocabulary skills. Strategies for summarizing, understanding sequence, making predictions, drawing conclusions, identifying main ideas and supporting details, understanding cause and effect relationships and vocabulary building are offered. Graphs for charting progress are offered.

Single Skill Series
Comprehension

1985

Booklet series. Designed to improve reading comprehension, each booklet contains 100 passages followed by a question that test’s readers understanding of the area being examined. A section on concentration techniques is offered to help students get more out of their reading.

Six-Way Paragraphs
Middle
Advanced

1983

Books. This program consists of middle or advanced level passages for developing six essential categories of comprehension. Each passage is followed by six questions covering: Main Idea; Subject Matter; Supporting Details; Conclusion; Clarifying Devices; and Vocabulary in Context. Since the comprehension categories are always in the above order, it is easy for users to diagnose problem areas of comprehension.

Skill At A Time
1 – Vocabulary In Context
2 – Using the Signal Words
3 – Understanding Figurative Language
4 – Getting the Author’s Tone
5 – Reading Between The Lines
6 – Getting the Main Point
7 – Recognizing Traits of Character
8 – Recognizing Points of View
9 – Perceiving the Author’s Intent
10 – Perceiving Structure

1975

Specific Skills Series
Drawing Conclusions
Getting the Main Idea
Working With Sounds
Working Within Words

1982

Spelling Power

1987

Tatics III

1967

Topics For the Restless
Topics From the Restless
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4

1989, 1999

Vocabulary Drills
Advanced

1986-1989